Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1879 — Opening of the New Opera House. [ARTICLE]

Opening of the New Opera House.

The new Opera House of Willey A Bigler will be opened on Monday eve, Dec. 22. 1879, by Abby Sage Richardson, who will deliver her famous and highly interesting lecture entitled the “Trio of Poets; Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier.”