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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1885
Page
2
A sprawling transcription covers public health fears about cholera prevention and toxin use, discussing preventive agi cets, strychnine, and the push to improve medical care across states like Alabama. It blends political notes, railroad finance, and cultural commentary with fragmented references to marriage, census, and national figures.
A chaotic OCR reads like a local note from Mew Free Atoos Quarry in West Virginia. It mentions Methodist and Episcopal church matters, pension examiners, deaths in Clarkesburg and Fairmont, a barn fire, an amputated leg, and a political poll with a band festival planned for late August. The piece blends community notices, obituaries, and stray events with little coherent structure.
Storied notes from St Clairsville include community events, meetings, and visits. Mentions of military and political activities plus the harvest home picnic and rink attraction highlight a bustling county scene with residents and nearby towns.
In a travel sketch the Antwerp edition is praised for its evolving charm. The piece highlights the city’s twofold civilization, grand boulevards, and rising population while noting high housing costs and servants’ wages. It emphasizes historic sights such as Steen castle, the cathedral housing Rubens works, the Plantin press, and the city’s maritime revival alongside modern amenities and electric lights.
The Antwerp exposition features Belgium as the strong center with a vast Belgian display and French, Italian, German, and Dutch sections. Visitors note a diverse crowd, ornate costumes, and costly French colonial items. an American exhibit by Walter Sinford includes Lacemaker and a young woman painting.
The town gathered at the M E church on Saturday for the Sirrington Memorial Exercises honoring General Ulysses S. Grant. A large audience attended as prayers, readings by Oliver and others, and a eulogy by Prof Maxwell and Mr John H. Romer highlighted Grant's life from youth to leadership, stressing reconciliation after the war. Citizens participated with decorum and the ceremony closed with flags, music, and respectful tribute.
Fragmented report from Triadelphia details the M. E Sunday School annual picnic at Wheeling Park with scholars transported by wagons and a grand treat funded by the Sunday School Board. It mentions Growlers baseball with a planned August 14 game, school teacher examinations, and various local notices amid scattered names and places.
A chaotic mix of town events is recapped including a Pink's orchard picnic, Turners debating dates for a festival, and crowds at Burr's Mills. Reports mention church gatherings, depot work, river bathing, family travels, school principal marriages, and ongoing construction around the city. Also noted are coal mine anecdotes, train movements, and social activities at Burr's Mills and Orkney Springs with hotel operations, water cures, and dances as central entertainments.
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