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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1897
Page
9
A period sale notice highlights rampant discounts on household goods and apparel. Advertised items include shirts, window blinds, hats, bonnets, combs, brushes, needles, pins, and garters with marked price cuts. The vendor markets steep savings across Cr ee Town stores and nearby Tyder.
The ad promotes sale prices on women shoes and boots including Ladies Tan Shoes Ladies Dongola Bing Lace and Futon styles. Also offered are Ladies Chocolate Russet Oxfords and Leather Oxfords in black and tan with discounted prices mentioned. Includes small items like straps and heels and general footwear discounts.
Shoeshop items including Men’s Pine Calf and Tan Cast Skin shoes priced around 0.50 to 36.45 per pair with various styles such as patent leather and low cut designs. Notes reference quality and warranty while advertising tracks and dye items like iron handles and cotlia lines.
An OCR fragment advertises pants at various prices from 20 to 175 and mentions mens wool jeans and a special tale on Monday. The readable text hints at a shop event with promotional pricing and a storefront invitation, though details are garbled.
A humorous domestic tale unfolds as a young wife recalls a quarrel with her husband over poker and a Florida trip. After he storms out, she implements a risky plan to frighten him back by placing a note on the door, only to realize she misread a burglar and almost causes a domestic scene.
The Bayview estate near Chesapeake Bay hosts a glittering debut for Maud Dumont on her eighteenth birthday as Lt. Duke Adair, captivated by her, steals a kiss before departing for service aboard the Siren. Years pass with no word, and Adair returns to find Maud’s heart bound to the vanished moment, while a marble grave marker beside Magnolia trees hints at a different fate.
A call to organize a West Virginia State Literary Association to protect American authors amid foreign publishing practices. The piece argues for state-wide initiative by leading writers to promote and preserve American literature, citing intellectual progress and local interest, asking who will lead. The rest reflects unrelated poetry and advertisements found in the issue.
A fragmented verse passage contrasts Puck and Mistah Peerpint Morgan with a scene at St Gange Church where a parish collection is taken. Rivalries and boasting about wealth appear in light dialogue between Mr Jacksong and others as a philosophical aside on choices.
Cleveland Plain Dealer presents a quip about Flimmer under the headline Raillery set in a humor column. The joke hinges on his grumbling linked to being caught in a steel rail slump, a playful play on words aimed at readers.
Martin's Ferry programs for Easter include Matins at St Pauls Episcopal with Rev W J Williams, Te Deum and Easter anthems, solos by Evans and Williams, a 2 pm Sunday school with address, and Evensong at 7 pm with chorale and offertory benefiting church debt. St Marys Easter morning and Gospel readings noted.
Several Mass times and communion plans are listed along with church events. The Maennerchor in Lington Street invites for an annual ball. Various residents and visitors are noted for sermons, travel, and social engagements across several towns.
Burlington Ohio April notes from a community page mention Halma visiting friends at a pool Charles Richards calling on acquaintances Mrs GG and W Delaners bet on several days Mrs Wm Clark attending Warrenton Fries Mr and Mrs Frank Dens town guests Mr 2 Leonard goods to Pittshore Sommers welcome a new arrival and a few names.
The Wheeling Daily notices a 1 cent per week telephone rate with brief mention of the local telecommunication listing. The fragment hints at a small classified or advertisement section.
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