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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1895
Page
4
Special sale notice lists limited quantities across departments including Outing Shirts Curtains Silverware and Clothing. Prices marked down with many items reduced to low cents with customers limited to one per sale. The sale begins at opening hour and continues until stock runs out.
I G Mendel and Co advertise as funeral directors located at 1 44 Main Street offering prompt attention day or night with store telephone No 49 and Mendes residence telephone No 1.
Wheeling Register notes a new stock of elegant trousers offered by Hess & Sons Tailors and Gentlemen's Parlors at Market Street. The Wheeling Park opens daily in summer with Sunday concert by Goren Mouse Orchestra at 8:20 pm. Refreshments, low prices, and meals available at Green rie Casino Terrace. Arrangements for parties and dancing can be made via A. Rolf and Vittenath streets. Park details include Grove Motor Often and Wheeling Grove Railroad service.
A review of local sports outlines Iron and Old League strength, Wheeling’s title race in the National League, and plans for the Metropolitan Athletic Club. It notes fast pitching by top arms, aims for a 600 season average, and a tight race with Pirates Spiders Orioles and Senators as contenders. It mentions exhibition games, September boxing matches, and bowling leagues nearing decisive finishes.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad offers round trip excursion tickets to Atlantic City Cape May and Sea Isle City for ten dollars with return valid for twelve days. Trains depart Wheeling at 4 20 4 1 and 5 34 5 p m with Pullman cars, bookings via T C Burke, ticket agent.
A west bound freight collided with an east bound passenger train ten miles east of Zanesville. Fireman Louis Bolla died and Engineer John May was severely injured. Passenger cars burned except the sleeper. John W. Kemple recalled clinging to life amid wreckage and fire as the train crew attempted to warn the oncoming locomotive.
Dr I Flower of Boston to visit Steubenville Imperial Hotel August Ohio Hollenden Toledo Burnett House Columbus Nell House Dayton Becker House August 9 10 12 13 to consult patients near home. noted for cures and diagnostic skill. Deed transfer recorded August 3 1895 from Jennie D Hildebrand to William H Bone for heir rights of Jane D Bone.
Munyons Homeopathic Remedies claim cures for rheumatism catarrah headaches kidney liver digestion colds neuralgia asthma malaria female troubles and more at 25 cents per bottle. Free diagnosis by Professor Munyon at 1505 Arch Street Philadelphia with remedies mailed on receipt of price.
Special to the Register reports Dennison banker Johnson, boarding Pan Handle No 50 eastbound, accidentally left the station before the train departed. Returning, he recovered a $5,000 package untouched by robbers. In another item, Sheriff D H Cox moved Harrison Huggans and his two sons Henry M and William T to the penitentiary after murder convictions. Harrison and Henry got five years each and William one year.
Samuel Sloan was yesterday appointed guardian for Emma J D Cook, orphan of Isaac Cook, deceased. Bond set at $1,000 with J R Butts, 5 0 Boyce and Robert Teasdale as sureties. Also notes a reunion of the 52nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry planned in Wheeling on August 22 with local attendees and organizers B H Maxwell Capt Alex Smithy and Auditor Blackburn. City tax receipts list totals for General fund and ten percent levy. Epworth Park Assembly at Bethesda, Ohio set for August, excursion tickets sold from Wheeling at 90 cents round trip. trains at 10 15 am, 3 45 pm, 4 40 pm.
The advertisement claims Hood's Sarsaparilla has cured thousands, proving its merit more than any statement. It boasts the largest sales and a vast laboratory, urging readers to try the medicine for its proven benefits.
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