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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1895
Page
3
A long OCR fragment discusses origins of a curious Irish story and the Blarney Stone. It weaves names, places, and quotes about Connaught, MacCarthy, and Walter, with debate over legend versus fact. The piece references a wall, a cave, and a court, showing cultural memory mixing with historical doubt.
The tale recounts Daniel Bigelow’s costly cemetery monument for his wife and the ensuing misadventures of Lorick Mulberry and Beatrice, including their balloon voyage to celebrate marriage. A thunderstorm, gas collapse, and near-fatal descent trap guests in a dramatic ordeal ending with a safe ground landing and mixed consequences for the families involved.
In San Francisco April 20 a 15 year old girl Nettie Dowd left Monterey after meeting Annie Jackson, allegedly under hypnotic influence. Dowd joined Jackson to San Francisco, was placed in a losing house by an abductor, and held pending arrival of her parents and police action.
A demure young minister rooms in a Tenderloin boarding house where six women share meals and hush, then marks on a back parlor door reveal initials and a coded progression. He visits church with Lucy who hides a scandalous closeness as hidden baggage hints at an imminent departure.
A narrator laments the self styled whist authority who dictates play at gatherings. He bores guests with Hoyle like formulas and rebukes others for not knowing the rules. Women resent the showy critic while men grow weary and drop invitations, ending in social isolation.
A garbled OCR fragment contains social gossip and promotional asides. It mentions a neighbor’s whist games and a rebuke to share knowledge, a theatre agreement restraining free passes, a proposed term manuprint, and generic health ads for rich blood and Hood's Pills. The text is incomplete and lacks clear news, dates, or locations.
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