The Musings of a Bachelor Reflects on Silent Book Friends
A bachelor narrator in a rainy room writes of preferring books to cinema and of visiting writers. He lists Hawthorne Dickens Scott and Payne as companions and recalls Payne's life, works, and U.S. consul role in Tunis before his 1852 death in Africa.
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Tam
Thexpress
Charlie Chaplin
Barrie
Mark Twain
Burns
Hawthorne
Balzac
Walter Scott
Arnold Bennett
de Morgan
Francke
Bayard Taylor
Mexico
Jonathan Edwards
Beecher
Moody
Chatham
Burke
Erskine
Henry
Webster
Lincoln
Whittier
Riley
Macaulay
Lamb
Home Sweet Home
John Howard Payne
Milan
Payne
London
Brutus
Edmond Kean
Charles the Second
Charles Kemble
Park Theater
New York
Baltimore
Boston
Philadelphia
Norval
Drury Lane Theater
Washington Irving
England
United States
Tunis
Africa
Mediterranean
Irving
Monticello Iowa Adopts Hearing on Curbs and Gutters Plan
The Monticello city council fixed December 11 1916 at 8 pm in the library for hearing objections to the plat and schedule of assessment for concrete curb and gutter on North Cedar Second Chestnut and Main streets. Objections must be filed within 20 days of first publication. notices will be published and posted along the improvement line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Street
Second Street
Chestnut Street
Main Street
Monticello
Iowa
City of
J. A. Voorhees
J. Northrop
Clark
Constitutional doubts over New York vote in presidential election
In the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal items, editors question the legality of electing a president without New York's participation. The discussions frame constitutional concerns about the electoral process and state influence on national outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Star
New York
A Batch of Smiles and a Sword Trick at Dinner
A collection of comic vignettes features a dentist mocked for fixating on his car while overhauling mouths A lawyer boasts with a trophy blade saying he drew it at a raffie and a judge leaves a street urchin with a haircut instead of payment after a playful wash and shine request
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Ata Raffie
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Richardson
Potter Apartments
South
Alvarado St
Los Angeles
George L. Lovell
Battle Creek
Michigan
Wendell Smith
Farley Advertiser
L. G. Stabler
Duroc Jersey Stock Hogs
P. D. Bell
Chester
McNeill Bros
Mary Altman
G. Bader
Ed Eden
A. W. Adama
R. EF. D
Fred Berlin
Joe DeBoest
S. J. Rice
Scotch Grove
Monticello State Bank
John Seery
South Fork Township
Delaware County
J. IT. Conlin
Cascade
Monticello Express Office
Estray
John Fluckiger
Casseade
O. R. Quon Jewelry
First Street
Lowell State Bank
Standard Oil Company
Tom Pender
Suter & Son
Poland
F. Morell Hamblin
Manchester
Ladies of the Rosary Society
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Castle Grove
Louisville Courier-Journal
Constantine
Foster Clothing Co
Thanksgiving
Wallace
Alvin
Denkhoff
Kreetok
Kessel
C. N. Patrick
Ricklefs & McNeil Hardware
C. H. Schipman
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Monticello, Iowa
William. Jennings Bryan
Mr. Bryan
R. N. Klass
Amer. Trust Bldg
Cedar Rapids, IA
Fred Puleston
Crick
Geery Brother
Qalla
Ricklefs & McNeill Hardware
H. M. Remiry
James Remley Remley
Remley
Attorneys AT Law
Anamosa
Chamberlain’s
Kettlitz & Kay
Bernard
Bellevue
J. W. Doxsee
Chas. A. Doxsee
Doxsee
Lovell Block
McCormick
Deering
L. P. Waddick
F. F. Becker
John Meyers
R. J. Davis
Sand Spring
Hereford
John Deere
Osborne
Bradley
Sattley Gang
Sattley
Rock Island
E. J. Hopkins
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