Wheeling Steamboat Builder Capt. A. J. Sweeney
Wheeling earned fame as a leading steamboat building hub on the Ohio with Capt. A J Sweeney at North Wheeling yard. He built some 150 boats since 1834, including the City of Peoria and the St. Ya, and introduced improved valve gear and rudder attachments. The era saw famed packets like the Sunshine and the Belle, wartime profits, and later shifts to Brownsville to source timber.
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Wheeling
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Slong
Dwentiea
North
Thomas Sweeney
North Wheeling Pottery
Daguerreo
San
Sweeset
Conti Anuasiy
Swescey
Wilson & Danlevy
J. H. Roberts
Wheeline
Parkersburg
St. Louis
Island No. 10
Peoria
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Bi Sudan
Mirteborg
New Dry
T. J. Sweeney
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Ouachita River
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Rochester
N. Y
Sweeney
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Alabama
North Wheeling
Sweeney & Son
Brownsville
Hrownsgills
Kerry Boss
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E.G Gray
Dulidieg
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Sweeneys
Capt Hill
Ss. Louis
Tater
Cumberland River
White
Nasiville Obane
Ite Il
Wilson
Duslevss Rard
Bertraut
Missouri River
Aod
Chattshoorhle
Electric Lights for the Futr Race Grounds
Western Colon manager Tracy directs a team to string electric wires from the city plant to the State Park grounds for the electric light races. About five miles of wire and twenty-five thousand 2,000 candlepower lights will transform the grounds into a bright spectacle at night. Knights of St George plan a Wheeling Park picnic at St Joseph's Cathedral with a full Opera House program and a morning street parade involving Catholic societies. A new merry go round propulsion using rubber tired bicycles is being developed for the State Fair. Certificate left for record shows Provident Life Insurance Company incorporation with a list of incorporators. The Carmichaels shooting victim John Morgan died at Waynesburg hospital after being shot. his daughter remains alive but critically. Morgan is kept in the Waynesburg jail under Sheriff Moore. The arrival of the posse caused excitement. the prisoner declines to discuss the case.
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Tracy
Colon
Stats Pak
Knights of St
Carmichaels
Wasursburg
Waynesburg
Jobn Morgan
Morgan
Moore
Progress on Sweeny Western Plant in Wheeling
Work on the Harvey Til plant of A J Sweeny & Sons progresses well with the roof now being placed. The Grinta plan to start in September slipped to later in October. Moss Andrew and Sweeney will run the Western plant. A J Sweeney stays in Wheeling to oversee the Twelfth street shop for local repairs.
River Notes From Clackmast to Wheeling Aug 13 19XX
Reports from the Obie river region detail Captain J F Eillsom directing Hudson repairs at Clackmast and improved navigation on the Muskingum. Sunken Eugenes pumped out. City of St Louis, Little Hagis, and Woodruff operations risky. Sells Brothers Big Show promotes a large August festival near Wheeling with moral safeguards. August 13 reports a fatal shooting at a Whitehall dance between Weatherly and Dantzler.
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J. F. Eillsom
Clackmast
Hudson
Muskingum River
City of
St. Louis
Woodruff
Here
Cincinnati
Indies
Sells Brothers
Sella Brothers
Wheeling
Messrs
Sal
Australia
Australasia
East Indies
Stalk of the Town Postal Card Fragment
A fragment notes that a person named STALK OF THE TOWN sent a postal card to a friend. No further readable details are present in the fragment.
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Mediately
Friend
California cold process fruit preservation praised by fruit man
A Wheeling gossip column notes a fruit dealer touts the California cold process for preserving fruit without heating or sealing. The method uses salyx, available from any druggist, keeping color and flavor for years at about one cent per quart with minimal labor. Examples include berries cherries grapes and pears. the dealer claims packages shipped nationwide and asserts most people could not distinguish them from fresh fruit.
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California
United States
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Goth
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Charles Selmidt
Alex. Morrieun
DD. H. Taylor
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J. T. Reed
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M. Hearne
Robert Simpson
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Whitehall
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Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly
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Alex Frew
Manuel Pilamcessod Fine Col Agement Guarsurate
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China
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Wheat & Hancher
Wheeling Datty Men's Association
Filan’s Lail
Auloy WH
Crescent Lodge No.8
Alfret Rudge
Jon Hommax
Beo'yeulodge
C. Bachmann
Philip Bechmann
Henry Bachmann
No. 19
Philip Bachmann
C. Bachmann & CO
Wheeling Business
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Morita
Calla Oftis
Cowett
Wales
Cruger Lage Bridge
Lane Bridge
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RU Carter
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New City
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Crystal Window Glass Works
Crystal Windwe Glas Company
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Wien
Catpany
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