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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1883
Page
3
A fragmented Sunday Register piece recounts life along Pecos River and nearby Creek country in New Mexico years ago. It details trails, settlements, and distant events with numerous named places and people, including Fort Conan and Fort swell, interwoven with personal recollections and local scenes from the era.
A rough frontier tale recounts a tense travel scene with Joe and Billy at Fort Sumner and a deadly saloon confrontation. The narrator recalls near-lynch, a buckboard escape, and Billy the man from New Mexico delivering a brutal end after a high stakes bet.
A recollected tale follows a boy and an old Black man on a plantation. A white steer chases through woods while a banker's daughter gathers apples. The boy confronts fear as the steer attacks, the hankercher of apples tossed, and the scene ends with a nightmarish escape and waking to a dream-like question about the strange event.
In a rural exchange a boy fears a white steer that haunts his dreams and wakes, while Uncle Ike recalls a chilling night. The child, frightened, asks to be escorted home as the tale blends superstition with childhood dread.
An odd reminiscence recounts a rural misadventure with moonshine and a brutal jugular injury. A large man uses a pipe stem as a makeshift ligature while a physician threads the wound to stabilize the victim amid crowd reaction and crude humor.
A dry mamperist Boston Connor and Aipamp enter a Washington Street bar room. He offers a self important cockeyed tale of his past life to a skeptical crowd. Derision meets his récit as he pushes on asking for a leak and laughs erupt.
A man tells a humorous tale to elicit a smile and moves to another liquor shop. Eight policemen later escort the dry humorist to the lockup, indicating a successful sting or capture.
In August moonlight a Passaic river amble becomes a spark of romance as Louis Mervane meets May Flore on a pearl white boat. A mysterious stranger saved from drowning and May's past ties spark questions of love, class, and family conflict across Paterson and New Orleans.
A humorous exchange between two Boston citizens centers on hair growth. One bald man with a luxuriant beard taunts the other, who has a bald head but a full chin. The other retorts that scientists say brain work heats the scalp, explaining the hair pattern.
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