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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1891
Page
9
A sprawling account surveys 1890s stage life with details on managers, performers, and productions. It covers tours, incomes, signing decisions, theater venues, and rising stars while noting shifts in public tastes and financial pressures shaping the road.
The obituary honors a prolific dramatist with wide range and gentle life. He was inventive, versatile and graceful, beloved by many.
Fragmented OCR reads as a funeral style tribute praising a man born in Albany New York and buried or honored in Pennsylvania. It laments loss with lines about virtue memory and beauty and praises his kindness wit and eyes while noting sorrow and loneliness. The text is garbled with misspellings and repeats.
A whimsical society sketch on stockings and garters, noting the shift from garters to tights. It describes women shopping for hosiery, the social gaze of male hose counters, and the anxiety tied to stocking security, joking about gender roles and fashion trends. The piece muses on nerve strain from constant vigilance over hosiery and hints at broader social ambitions of women.
A miscellany of holiday candy recipes for French Vanilla Cream and various nut creams, plus stage drops and Margert's Molasses Candy. Notables include Vassar graduates and English women inspectors, with notes on Mrs Gladstone and the Czarina. Also world notes on Iceland education, Greece women, and a Cobden Club prize winner Victoria Jeans. Weathered variety with recipes and social vignettes.
A description of a compact umbrella made from taffeta silk with a corrugated steel shank and a wood, silver, gold, or ivory handle. The design emphasizes maximum rollability without sacrificing spread or utility, noting a 3 1/8 inch bulk when rolled and detailing fittings and ferrule construction.
The article describes various umbrella designs in figures with steel shanks and wood veneers, detailing tight-roller styles, ferrules, lacewood shanks, and interlocking frames. It also records a lodge meeting with mournful notices, a death and a personal effects loss, and a Jersey City smuggling case involving Fred C. Rutgers and a United States Court appearance.
Otio Lodge No 1 elected officers for the year Andrew Ross Worshipful Master Theodore Snider Senior Warden O M Suppler Junior Warden Hugh Sterling Treasurer Joseph Secretary Robert Clark William M Creighton Steward Installation set for next meeting Nelson Lodge No 30 elected officers for Masonry year George Varney W M W R Dudley S W D L Richey S W John A Kyle Secretary J K B Hughes Treasurer Ed Dunaway J W Leland Stewards Rev J A Pujerton Chaplain Installation planned at first January meeting Tri annual Committee of Wheel ing Commandery No 1 K T organized a pilgrimage to Denver with plans for 100 Knights and ladies and Master Masons supporting it including a large band and three Pullman sleepers with a projected trip cost not exceeding fifty dollars.
The SONS of ST GEORGE Wood Lodge No 247 installed new officers for the term led by W P Thomas Davison and W P Chas Edge with Alf Thomas as Secretary and Jon Heath as Treasurer. The event was conducted by District Deputy F T Brown amid praise for growing membership and benefits already paid. Stephen Corps No 5 W B C held a large meeting with five initiations and thirty nine members in good standing. officers elected include Mrs A E Bourne President and Mrs Esther Ferguson Secretary, with four delegates chosen for the West Virginia convention in April 1802.
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