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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1895
Page
11
In Wheeling and Parkersburg society pages, weddings and engagements emerge amid dances, concerts, and church events. Notable nuptials include couples from Pittsburgh and Washington, with receptions and dances planned at local halls and churches, plus reports on clergy, guests, and family ties across the region.
Readable fragments show a brief note under about people linked to Road Snook and Co. likely a society or business blurb. Indicates a focus on individuals associated with the firm without full context or dates.
A garbled dispatch lists residents and visitors including Mrs W E L Chapline and daughter Mamie of Lowell Mass visiting as ghosts of relatives in town. Miss Carrie Miller left for Ellwood Pa to visit friend Miss Marie Pioteher. Gustave Wocber of Canal Dover visiting South Side. Dr J W Myers at Sherrard on business. Catherine Hughes, Enwood Hughes daughter, ill with typhoid fever. Also notes on glove prices and local shop names Swaback.
A Pittsburg telegram reports explosive oil price moves with crude up to 2 per barrel and refiners lifting prices. Traders crowd exchanges as 19,000 barrels change hands in minutes, while New Kensington and nearby fields announce new strikes and rigs. Porous casing, new wells in Logan Ferry and Colerain spur prospecting and field expansion with multiple companies advancing drilling in Doddridge and Wetzel counties.
Manager Charles Feinler aims for a short summer vaudeville season at the Urand with a large artist list. Season length and future summers depend on patronage. May marks the close of the present season and renovation with cooling facilities. Plans for Mozart Park theatre are uncertain, possibly not this summer. Entertainment will be light, with occasional concerts or operas for about three months. A Texas Steer at the Opera House features Maverick Blinder and Major Yell in a Washington spoof, while Gentleman Jack with James J. Corbett draws crowds but critics deem it artistically weak. The week offers The Amazons and Wang, with the Walford Sheridan & Holmes repertoire at the Grand.
COMING ATTRACTIONS The Amazons comes to the Opera House Monday with a New York cast including Johnstone Bennett Maude Odell Elaine Efiron Ida Vernon Louise Rial Beaumont Smith and W S Holmes. A lively high life comedy with superb scenery and full company properties. AT THE GRAND The Smugglers and The Train Wreckers recur this week with strong dramatic parts and sensational settings. Wang the famous burletta plays Saturday with new scenery costumes and songs. a lighthearted entertainment praised for years.
A noted concert promises a rare recital next Thursday evening at Gud Wall featuring Prof. Riccardi Riel and Mrs Ricet with several performers from local music groups. The program includes arias and duets by Gounod and others, with chorus and benediction portions. hall capacity to be tested.
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