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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1882
Page
7
A garbled late 19th century style column lists scattered items: burial notices, arrests, and court cases from Our Cure City and surrounding areas. Names like Samuel P. Adaims and Eugene Cary appear among reports of theft, prison terms, and public meetings. The text also mentions a society ball, a fireside tragedy, and various civic actions while interleaving weather notes and stray political chatter.
An assortment of brief items reports crimes, fires, trials, and oddities. Notable mentions include a fire at Thrusum's grocery in Bridgeport causing 330 damages, assaults in St. Clairsville, and a suicide by a former Steubenville resident. Other items cover court cases, accidental wrecks on Pan Handle road, professional disbarments, and local estimations of temperatures and prices.
A Chicago paper recounts how Mike Keating, a telegraph messenger for the Telegraph Company of Oklahoma City, unraveled a cipher from the Standard Oil headquarters in Cleveland. He joined with a broker to secretly buy and sell oil, turning a $0.72 per barrel purchase into about $0.80 to $0.85 and a $400 profit, with potential gains to $630,000 if the top price was held.
In Cincinnati Longworth Street, from Vine to Plum, is described as a den of vice with bordellos and prostitution, prompting calls in City Council to rename parts of the avenue. The piece tours the blocks from Grand Opera House to Plum Street, noting saloons, clubs, and lurid storefronts, then recounts a sensational shooting incident involving actor Frank Frayne and actress Annie Von Behrens, with commentary on public morality and local figures. It also mentions Jimmy O’Neal in Cincinnati and a Cleveland or Ohio political note, ending with a critical dig at sensational journalism and a local gambling anecdote.
A reporter surveys shop windows showing unusual exhibitions to attract shoppers. Items range from a ticking open-faced watch and a parrot that speaks to a hen in a brood, a mock army helmet display, a Maltese cat pair, and chalk drawings of public figures. Names of streets and shop types appear with humorous setups and eye catching signs.
A long passage extols the true farmer who maximizes every acre, rotates crops to boost fertility, and spends for profit. It praises rich manure management as wealth and a key bank for future profits, noting good stock and modern, labor-saving tools. It contrasts with wasteful practices and stresses capitalization in farming.
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