Rupert the Crusty Bachelor Hero of a New York Tale
The passage profiles Rupert Smithson a fifty plus crusty, surly bachelor whose rough exterior masks a generous heart. Once a hopeful young merchant who loved Katie Carroll, he learns she wed another and returns to New York to care for relatives. His nephew and niece, clever children, reveal his tender side, and a March gathering recalls his stubborn creed on April Fools as family life reshapes his quiet existence.
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Appello
Rupert Smithson
Rupert the Second
Rupert
Katie Carroll
New York
Katie
Cincinnati
Kimberly
Flora
Opshaw
April Fool Trick Lands Rupert a Wife
A lonely bachelor Rupert Smithson plans a prank by advertising his furnished house for eight to nine. Widow Kate Carroll answers seeking a board, and true love blooms as Rupert discovers Kate is John Murry’s widow with a seventeen year old daughter. He hires the couple and the two marry, making the prank the unlikeliest wedding.
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Rupert
Rupert Smithson
Tupert Smithson
Cincinnati
John Murrystreet
John Murry
Kate
Tay
Winifred
Alpine Dairy Visit in the Tyrolean Alps
E Waring Jr describes a summer Alpine stay with a Sennerin dairy and cowherds drinking milk from a shared basin. The narrative covers a bed of shared meals, a barefoot elder hosting, and a sleeping couch in a grand alp pasture near Kastelruth with goats and cows kept high in the mountains. Tending and dancing mark hay season while frosts begin to end the season in five months.
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New England
Jane
Kastelruth
Seiss
Kastelrath
E. Waring, Jr
Harper's Magazine
Raising Potatoes for Early Seed and Market
G. B. R. in Prairie Farmer explains a seed potato method: trim seed ends, cut into hen egg sized pieces with eyes removed if three or more, wilt briefly, plant in rows three feet apart and fifteen inches in row, dropping every third furrow, then plank and weed with harrow and cultivator. Early Vermont selected for early use yields faster. finished field rotation allows later turnips on same land.
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Vermont
Dr King's New Discovery Promoted For Lung Ailments
An advertisement touts Dr King s New Discovery as a speedy cure for consumption and related throat and chest diseases with a world wide reputation. It notes endorsements by physicians clergy and the press and offers trial bottles free and regular bottles at 1 00. Sold by A W Morck Co Warren.
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Foster, Milburn & CO
Buffalo
Warren
Dr. King
A. W. Morck & Co
Popular Song Prompts Demand for New Thompson Offer
A minstrel and concert troupe sing Will L. Thompson's new song and chorus Golden Years are Passing By, with dealers strained to meet demand. Publishers W. L. Thompson & Co. offer 35 cents from East Liverpool, Ohio. A quoted racial remark appears as cultural context in the piece.
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L. Thompson
W. L. Thompson & Co
East Liverpool
Ohio
Washington Irving’s life and last birthday death
A biographical sketch recounts Washington Irving’s long life marked by sorrow and success. It notes the losses of Matilda Hoffman and his sister, early business misfortune, and eventual wealth from Life of Columbus and The Sketch Book. It describes his 77th birthday and death on November 28, with neighbors and family in tears.
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Washington Irving
Irving
Matilda Hoffman
Matilda
Birmingham
Columbus
England
John Murray
London
Miller
Tatones
Murray
Washington
Ilis
Pierre Po
Robert
Gentleman fleeced of £1000 by London bank note scam
A veteran commercial man cashed £1000 in £100 notes at a London bank. A pretended clerk with pen behind his ear asked to verify the note numbers and led him inside. While the mark waited, the rogue vanished with the notes and the bank staff later found the purported clerk had no knowledge of the incident.
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Be & Ball
Warren
Beatty Block
First National Bank
D. L Ball
D. Brown
D. I. Hall Notary Public
George WT
Leonart
Curver House
Stewart
Hazeltine & Davis
Hickory Birest
Union School House
G. B. Evans
Tez-Ulf
Ee WN. Lowry
Ofice
East ‘Phard St
Jamestown
N.Y
London
Bank of England
Chambers
Sunday Afternoon for May opens with The Kingdom of Heaven
Sunday Afternoon for May features The Room's Width a poem by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps followed by essays and pieces by Pres John Bascom Francis A Walker Helen Campbell Julia McNair Wright and others. It includes fiction by Julia C R Dors and continues with essays on religion economy and social topics plus short stories and notes.
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Springfield
Mass
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Pres
John Bascom
University of Wisconsin
Williams College
Francis A. Walker
Yale College
Jane Help
Isaac Newton
Julia C.R. Dors
Calvin the Sinner
Cicily
Colorado
Alfred
Terry Bacon
Jake
Tucker
Mary Bradley
Jerusalem
Democratic issues and Southern politics in 1879
Montgomery Blaine condemns corruption and sectionalism amid postwar debates. He argues the South’s loyalty to Garfield era ideals, cautions against Radical plunder seeks, and predicts unity for Tilden across the South and West. Includes a series of political points on secession, Fort Sumter, and party dynamics. The piece interleaves humorous anecdotes about local figures and farmers, reflecting a late 19th century newspaper mix of politics and light satire.
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Iéth
St.Louis
South
Woo
Jackson
Missouri
Kentucky
West Virginia
Port Sumter
Beauregard
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Fort Sumter
Anderson
Seward
Secretary of the Navy
Tilden
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Randall
Blackburn
Thurmay
Hoffman
Church
T'weed
Canal Ring
Tilden 13
West
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