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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1883
Page
6
A damaged OCR fragment hints at local happenings with names and places obscured. It mentions a school setting and a group called FAME with possible ties to a child care or event, and references a person named Beate Caines Prides in a likely civic or school context. The text is incomplete and difficult to verify.
A reminiscence from a Square club recalls Budell and friends, sworn bachelors, debating marriage plans. Budell proposes to Miss Maxwell after lively club banter, while Marley and Smithers also express intentions. The gathering shifts to a tableaux scene and an impending wedding amid comic misadventure.
In a tense scene, Budell rushes the narrator to a library where he confesses he has proposed to Edith during a discreet moment at a table. Texel and Smithers react as they await Edith’s change of costume, while the club banter and social cues unfold, ending with plans to reunite and celebrate the engagement.
A collage of brief quotes and witticisms from various papers mocks fast colors, dueling trends, social foibles, and curious questions. Notable jibes touch on clubs, newsrooms, travel, and odd conversations, capturing a snapshot of light, anecdotal humor.
The article argues urban waste, including sewage, enriches soil used by farmers and cites European practice of reuse. It extols asparagus as a highly profitable crop, noting yields from one to two thousand dollars per acre but emphasizes profits depend on proper cultivation and costs. It explains asparagus plants are dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants, meaning true varieties are not simply bred by seed but by cultivation practices.
The issue covers eastern Ohio crops with notes on hay abundance, wheat yield variability, and drill vs old sowing methods. It mentions wool, apples, peas, potatoes, beets, and the mixed harvest prospects, plus livestock feed, beetle scarcity, and a Maine poultry law. It also notes a New Jersey cow praised for butter production and discusses draining, ditching, and a new electric method for harnessing horses.
A period manual outlines methods for serving tea strong yet trace-free at meals and offers an Arab salad with crab meat dressed in a rich yolk and mustard cream. It also describes a clam broth, drier seafood soups, and evolving ladies fashion notes on shoes, jewelry, curtains, and light perfume techniques.
On a midnigh ttrain from New York to Washington via Philadelphia a conductor recalls a Sunday smoker incident. An old gentleman complained about a young Irish railroader smoking a stubborn Havana cigar. a Cuban offered a cigar to soothe tensions and the Irishman accepted it and kept smoking after dinner. The old man eventually moved away from the odor.
A collection of moral maxims about temper, friendship, happiness, and virtue, urging restraint, orderly life, and usefulness. It includes references to a daily hop route from Osis Junction, fall term beginnings, and a local teachers college upholding thirty years of service. The text lists graduates from Wooster and notes on reporting staff and mail addresses.
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