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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1897
Page
5
An article extols a trolley travel concept to the coast promising comfort and novelty. It claims low soot exposure, open car windows, and scenic birdsong breakfasts, with a claimed large profit for promoters and rapid, luxurious journeys by rail.
A narrative aboard a tropical Pacific ship unfolds with lovers Florence Harris and Badmund Prescott as the starry night sky prompts romantic exchanges. A mysterious bell and a dark, rising shape on the waves spark speculation, while a humorous interlude with Adolphus Fitzgibbon and the captain precedes a digression into a futuristic third-rail railway system and its transformative reach across major lines.
A Cleveland Leader fragment shows Reverend Choker puzzled by a missing Mrs Van Scudds and a church return after a community event. The dialogue hints at spiritual duties, Congregation dynamics, and implied benefits for others, reflecting local religious tensions.
A ship spies a drifting hulking craft with a bell tolling from its mast. Captain Luster disappears after a tense approach, and mates Prescott and Backstay Bob return to reveal a tiger aboard. In the hulk’s cabin they find Luster slain and bones scattered, with a chained tiger guarding a grisly room marked with a vengeance inscription. The fate of the mysterious vessel remains unresolved.
Washington gossip centers on Senator Hanna allegedly occupying a White House spare chamber and a canopy bed. The piece traces guest rooms history from Nellie Grant to Nellie Arthur, Cleveland and McKinley eras, noting rooms and host-guest customs at the executive mansion.
The guest chamber evolved from a somber relic to a furnished room with antique hints. Mistresses revived it as a personal shrine to past presidents and their wives, then it became a haunted byword, later restored to a country house style with Sleepy Hollow chairs from Grant era. Senator Hanna and others were noted as potential visitors to the room.
A Washington Star exchange unfolds as a man seeks to rename his 10 month old baby to Creero to avoid a disliked pronunciation. The lawyer explains name changes require consent from the interested party, and cannot be done behind the child’s or parents’ nor others’ backs. The tale highlights neighborhood tensions and parental intentions in a curious legal drama.
In a Detroit Free Press fragment a man recalls Colonel Bibles leaving his family at the seashore and returning insulted after a joke. He says the place was open and comfortable, that sun and thirst worsened his hurt, and a mistaken sea bar led him to search a bathing spot think ing near the ocean.
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