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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1894
Page
4
Local items report a sale of goods including ribbons and buttons, Wheeling park openings with concerts, transit options and dealer notices. Public notices include a Bellaire death by suicide, A P A lodge formation in McMechen, city gasworks upgrades, Bishop Donahue relief mass, and park entertainment plans.
Ferdinand Miller, forty three, leading Benwood resident, died suddenly early Saturday after testifying Friday against counterfeiter Joseph Sweeney. Heart disease was the cause. Miller leave s a wife and family. He was active in La Belle Lodge A O U W Evening Star Lodge K of P Gray Eagle Tribe Redmen and the German Lutheran Church. He was born in the Eighth ward and widely known.
A deed transfer from James A. Birkett executor to Mary R. Birkett for 42 acres and 12 poles in Triadelphia district was left for record. Wheeling Park hosts an afternoon concert at 2 30 with Mozart Park Sunday music by Meinter's band. The Wheeling and Elm Grove rail line cuts round trip fare to 25 cents. Ice cream parlors open at Grant House noon today. Movart Park opens tomorrow and Melater's Band to provide music.
C A Armstrong of Swift Island North Carolina describes six weeks of Coricora remedies clearing a three year old boy’s scalp eruptions behind the ear. After twenty four hours visible improvement appeared and within two weeks the skin was smooth and clear with no recurrence. He recommends keeping a supply and notes potential use for insect bites.
A garbled inventory lists items such as good Hen Molde Memorandum Book 4, Shoes Nove Paper 6, Leed Pencils 65, Collar Wattons, Mair Pins, Hamekerchat cie, T paper Pipe, Nestling, Silk Test, hooks, Needies, Nutmeg Grater, Jous Brats Pants Huttons, Mat Pin, hat Carpet Taoke, gores Di Vins, Tablet Raising Newsies, and Lots of Scent. The readable fragments suggest a miscellaneous sale or household inventory from a historical source.
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