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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1895
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR from a local page mentions farm facilities and a university link. It references Riek Vernier Barn, Stanford related notes, and a cautionary tale of plans for furnishing a wing. Narrative bits imply retirements and local activity around lands and partnerships with education and industry.
Readable segments describe a rural life scene with farming, crops, livestock, and family talks. Mentions of Mrs Nfetsy and a wealthy figure, plus farmer toil and temptations of real estate. Contains garbled names and locations, but conveys agrarian hardship and ambition.
A Norwood era feature highlights Mrs. Palmer and other American women farmers who modernize agri culture. It notes Palmer funding research in Europe on mushroom culture and building greenhouses, producing substantial yields. It mentions Lady Pratees Cook and Constance Merrieveld as notable contemporaries, portraying women balancing enterprise with social roles.
A portrait of John D. Rockefeller Jr and Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr as they assume control of family affairs, guided by West Point training and sharp business minds. The piece sketches their upbringing, ambitions, and how they manage vast legacies, with notes on Ulysses S. Grant Jr and Chauncey M. Depew Jr as youthful successors shaping a new era of American finance and power.
George Washburne and Parthenia Hicks, a couple featured in Harper’s Bazaar, wed last week after a rollercoaster romance sparked by a bicycle. He admitted his earlier resistance to riding, while she urged love and partnership, and they plan to ride together on a bicycle built for two with safety features.
A late 19th century miscellany features Estelle McGee’s unhappy notes and Reginald Kersox of West Liberty offering etiquette tips about hats in elevators and dining rooms. It includes a flood of letters from readers on manners romance, humor, and social conduct with humorous anecdotes and stray poems.
The readable lines discuss patience and stimulants, note vague scripts about avoiding tobacco, and question the identity of a dyed mustache. A dialect rich jumble mentions Flossir East Po Amboy and a claim that youth cannot write on certain matters, suggesting a fragmented personal letter or diary entry.
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