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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1883
Page
3
A chaotic, fragmentary travelogue on fatness and beauty, describing seaside scenes, fashion, and social attitudes. The text blends critiques of slender ideals with vivid, wandering vignettes of beach life, bathing costumes, gossip, and sensory details from a coastal resort.
A vivid, period style description of Cape May as a premier coast resort with bustling hotels, bath houses, dances, and dining. It portrays daily routines from morning swims to evening dances under electric lights, highlighting the resort’s ample capacity, bustling trains, and inviting ocean views for visitors seeking rest and recreation. The piece extols the climate, sea air, and general vitality of the seaside experience.
A thunderstorm spree across towns leaves cattle slain, houses struck, and people injured or killed. Lightning hits include William Whiston of Hanover Virginia, Rev Frank Kalkew of Durango Iowa, Mrs Hosein of Cont, and Mrs Edward Hester of Walkertown. Hail and fire damage reported, with dramatic strikes in Canton South West and other areas. A Washington area bachelor sues for a loan amid a domestic setback. The piece notes chaos and personal losses from the storm.
A San Francisco Chronicle style Sunday vignette follows a miner waking in his camp three miles from town. He plans a long drink at the Magnolia where the doctor, judge, and locals gather. vivid camp life scenes unfold through chatter of stores, mail, and miners. It recalls nostalgia, hard labor, and the social rituals around a cleansing drink.
In a moonlit Vosges village a soft summer evening finds the Crown Prince Frederick William among Bavarians and other troops. A sergeant recalls past victories and the prince laughs, sharing quiet moments with the allied force during a halted march.
A string of brief, grim incidents reported from various locals includes suicides and violent deaths. Notable cases mention a man in Kentucky who hanged himself after a relative caused a fatal shooting, an evangelist in Massachusetts strangling himself, a Virginia teen killed by accidental discharge, and a Colorado woman driven to poison after heartbreak.
A Massachusetts teacher keeps an unusual mine that won’t kick and a Maine fox trained to play a jewelry. A Hagletown bachelor uses a kangaroo as a paper weight while a Vermont child teaches a roster to sing. In New Orleans a maiden lady houses a tame gorilla as a companion. A Wisconsin woman preserves a tame water bear in a refrigerator during winter.
A clipped, satirical note argues women should giggle only when the man talking seems amused. It mocks fashionable restraint and suggests suppressing laughter during tales of misfortune or serious questions, claiming subtle social leverage and potential marriage prospects depend on restraint.
Two lovers from St Louis marry at sea with a playful bridal party and clergyman as waves lap the shore. Neptune playfully disrupts the ceremony as the bride endures a soggy, humorous scene while her father jokes about wedding costs and millinery bills.
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