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From Mark Twain in the German Language Press
[MT's estate] | 17 Jul 1911
Der Deutsche Correspondent. Baltimore [MD], 17 Jul 1911. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Lib. of Congress, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045081/1911-07-17/ed-1/seq-4/.
This article does not meet the meet the main project's selection criteria and most likely falls outside of the main project's time range (1871-1910). It is presented here as part of a supplementary Overview of Articles Collected by Kim Nitschke as part of her MA thesis "The Representation of Mark Twain in the American German-Language Newspaper Der Deutsche Correspondent from 1872 to 1918."
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| Mark Twain, der im April 1910 verstorbene amerikanische Humorist, hat ein Vermögen von nahezu einer halben Million hinterlassen, und dabei hatte er vor Jahren durch den Bankerott einer Verlagsfirma schwere Verluste erlitten. Der Humor Twain's hat sich glänzend bezahlt. | Mark Twain, the American humorist who died in April 1910, left behind a fortune of almost half a million, even though he had suffered heavy losses years ago due to the bankruptcy of a publishing company. Twain's humor paid off handsomely. |