| Prepared by the Chamber of Commerce, this brochure advertises Hannibal less as "the boyhood home of MT" than as a "highly favored industrial and agricultural region." TOURIST ACCOMMODATIONS are less important than POPULATION, which consists of "a supply of efficient native American labor" and is "negro less than 8%." The phrases "Boyhood Home of Mark Twain" and "Tom Sawyer's Playground" appear, but so does the image of "sixty-three factories . . . producing shoes, cement," &c. Although the men who prepared the brochure note that tourists visit the "shrine" of the restored MT boyhood home by the "thousands each year," and use the lingering spirit of MT as a vivid way to give the city a unique character, they associate growth and prosperity with smokestacks, not tourist attractions. |
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