Caruthersville High School - Cotton Blossom Yearbook (Caruthersville, MO)

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Samuel i£amUuu ne Clemens Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the most popular of all American humorists, whose books have made him loved wherever English is spoken and have brought good-natured laughter into millions of homes, was born in the humblest surroundings in the town of Florida, Mo., on November 30, 1835, reared almost without schooling and amid benighted conditions such as today have no existence, yet who lived to achieve world-wide fame; to attain honorai-y degrees from the greatest universities of America and Europe; to be sought by statesmen and kings; to be loved and honored by all men in all lands; and mourned by them when he died in 1910. What boy does not count among his treasures “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn”? Who does not recall with real delight the time when reading “Innocents Abroad,” “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” “The Prince and the Pauper,” “Joan of Arc,” “The Jumping Frog,” and others of his books and stories? We, who live by the great Father of Waters, do honor our Missouri writer who chose his pen name, “Mark Twain,” from his adventures of “Life on the Mississippi.” H s life and works have inspired us for the iheme for this book.