Mark Twain processing-sub-front-page "France's Gift Accepted

"France's Gift Accepted

" These fans would eventually hear the Cincinnati Reds defeat the Chicago White Sox

double-decker buses - manned by a driver and conductor - lent a certain quaint flavor to New York's Fifth Avenue

The building was called Times Tower and at 375 feet the gothic fortress was the second-tallest building in the world

can spin the hoop around their waists

Mark Twain processing-sub-front-page "France's Gift AcceptedMark Twain relaxes in a rocking chair in New Hampshire in 1905. Twain would turn 70 the year this photo was taken, and he had told The New York Times that he had never done a day's work in his life. "No, Sir, not a day's work in all my life," he is quoted in The New York Times in 1905, "What I have done I have done, because it has been play. If it has been work I shouldn't have done it."