...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a…

Mark Twain
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...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the asylum. ✨ Mark Twain (2015). Roughing It: Mark Twain's Collections, p.327, 谷月社
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