Governor-elect Henry Horner, the first Jew to be elected governor of the state of Illinois, celebrated his fifty-fourth birthday by continuing at work in his usual fashion.
If you want to celebrate a real birthday, he told reporters, call the attention of the public to the fact that today is the anniversary of Mark Twain’s birth. “My job is just begun. I am going to celebrate my birthday by getting ready for it.”
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