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Title: 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century

Author: Henry Hartshorne

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1931: A GLANCE AT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

by

HENRY HARTSHORNE.

"Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before."

Philadelphia:
E. Claxton & Co.,
930 Market Street.
1881.

Copyright secured.
1881.

Collins, Printer.

The contents of the following pages are taken from a diary, supposed to
be written in 1931, by a gentleman of leisure and good opportunities for
observation.

Should any reader be inclined to hold the editor or author responsible
for what is thus recorded, be it remembered that very little is expressed
concerning what _ought_ to be; the chief purpose being to show rather what
will _probably occur_.

1931:

A GLANCE AT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

_January 1, 1931._

I begin to-day to jot down occasional notes of whatever interests me
most, in private or public affairs.

* * * * *

Much sympathy is just now felt everywhere for the ex-queen of England in
her enforced retirement. She would have been perfectly safe in returning
to England; and she will, probably, before long, again take up her
residence at Osborne or Balmoral; but the extreme unpopularity of the
ex-king makes his return at least undesirable.

During our present, 71st Congress, meeting at St. Louis, a motion will
be made by a member from Texas f