''Rural New Yorker'' was a weekly periodical founded in 1850 that was published by the Rural Publishing Co.,

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. The magazine continued through the middle of the 20th century.

History

Daniel D.T. Moore founded the publication as ''Moore's Rural New Yorker'' in

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in 1850. Moore later became

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in 1865. After moving the paper to

(it opened a branch office at the old ''

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'' building at

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by 1869),1869 Advertisement
''Herald of Health'' (February 1869) financial setbacks caused him to give up the paper in the 1870s. After moving to New York City, the paper eventually had offices at 34 Park Row, the Scott & Bowne Building at

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and Pearl Streets (409 Pearl), and around 1911 it moved to the old Chelsea Methodist Church on West Thirtieth Street, where it remained for many years. John J. Dillon was editor and publisher of the paper for over 58 years, from about 1892 until his death in 1950.(21 May 1938)
Profile: Rural New Yorker
''The New Yorker''Commissioner of the Department of Foods and Markets: John J. Dillon
''The New York Red Book'', p. 65 (1915)

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wrote for the paper. A

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pattern column was published under the name of "Mrs. R.E. Smith" from 1930 to 1937. Starting in 1890 it ran the motto "A Square Deal" to reflect the fact that it guaranteed that subscribers would not be treated unfairly by its advertisers, taking great efforts to make them whole.Kleiner, Richard (2 June 1952)
These City Fellers Give Farmers a 'Square Deal'
''Owosso Argus-Press'' As of 1956, the publication still had 300,000 subscribers.Meyer Berger's New York - April 6, 1956
(2004) It was acquired by ''

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'' and merged in 1964,Smith, Kathleen A
(24 September 1864). [http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn84031311/1964-09-24/ed-1/seq-5.pdf 2 Farm Magazines To Combine">"Moore's Rural New Yorker": A Farm Program for the 1850s[, in ''Agricultural History'', Vol. 45, No. 1, Jan. 1971, pp. 39-46 (jstor subscription needed)(24 September 1864)
2 Farm Magazines To Combine
''The Massena Observer'' which is now published by Farm Progress
.

References

Attribution

* {{Source-attribution, {{cite book, last1=Willard, first1=Frances Elizabeth, author1-link=Frances Willard, last2=Livermore, first2=Mary Ashton Rice, author2-link=Mary Livermore, title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life, url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Mary_Bassett_Clarke, edition=Public domain, year=1893, publisher=Charles Wells Moulton

External links

Rural New Yorker vol.1 (1850) - vol. 114 (1964)
at the Biodiversity Heritage Library Newspapers published in Rochester, New York Magazines established in 1850