From the Housetops
By George Barr McCutcheon
29 Aug, 2019
Extract: Mr. Templeton Thorpe was soon to be married for the second time. Back in 1860, he married a girl of twenty-two, and now in the year 1912, he was taking unto himself another girl of twenty-two. In the interim, he had achieved a grandson whose
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Extract: Mr. Templeton Thorpe was soon to be married for the second time. Back in 1860, he married a girl of twenty-two, and now in the year 1912, he was taking unto himself another girl of twenty-two. In the interim, he had achieved a grandson whose years were twenty-nine. In his seventy-seventh year he was worth a great many millions of dollars, and for that and no other reason perhaps, one of the newspapers, in commenting on the approaching nuptials, declared that nobody could now deny that he was a philanthropist. Less