February 27 Wednesday – Sam’s notebook: “Osteopathy—Albany Grand Central Depot—leave 8.30 a.m.” [NB 44 TS 6].

The New York Times, p. 6, “Osteopaths to Have a Hearing,” announced in a special item from Albany, N.Y. that Mark Twain would be the principal speaker to an Assembly Committee on Public Health on Feb. 28 dealing with the prohibition of osteopathy and Christian Science

The New York Times, p. 1 reported on Sam’s talk in favor of a bill to license osteopathy before a public hearing in Albany, N.Y.

MARK TWAIN, OSTEOPATH

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Appears at Public Hearing Before Assembly Committee.

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HIS PERSONAL LIBERTY PLEA

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Wants to Try Everything That Comes Along—Adam, He Says, Was Unjustly Criticised.

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Special to The New York Times

ALBANY, Feb. 27.—With Mark Twain and Will Carleton advertised as “top liners,” the hearing before the Assembly Committee on Public Health today upon the Seymour bill to license osteopaths drew a big audience to the Assembly Chamber. Mr. Carleton did not speak, but Mark Twain did. For nearly an hour he had his hearers laughing. [See the entire long article in Twainquotes.com]

Clara Marshall of N.Y.C. wrote compliments of Twain’s “Sitting in Darkness” article, and had hoped to see him as President in 1905, but was repulsed when she read what he had to say at the Lincoln Birthday Celebration at Carnegie Hall. Marshall had no love for Lincoln [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env. “Didn’t like Abe Lincoln / Use in Corn-Pone”

William Moss of Mandeville, Jamaica wrote compliments of Twain’s “Sitting in Darkness” article [MTP].

Gilbert A. Tracy of Putnam, Conn, wrote compliments of Twain’s “Sitting in Darkness” article, which she saw as ‘the truth”[MTP].