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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1885
Page
3
An eyewitness recounts a brutal winter assault near Mare Heights with artillery and infantry clashes. The narrative details trenches, guards, and battered lines as Union forces press, describe officers’ resolve, and depict the frigid, chaotic marching and firing that shaped the engagement.
A gossiping aunt recalls Ed saying he will not marry a woman who cannot cook or manage a home. The piece argues a wife should balance independence with affection, remaining graceful and practical. It ends with a cooking feature offering recipes for a fashionable dinner, framed as guidance for women seeking a husband.
A reader-supplied monologue surveys expectations for women in marriage with severe social pressures. It details how a wife must appear, manage the home, uphold virtue, and endure constant scrutiny, while a husband reaps comfort and authority, revealing a harsh double standard of domestic life.
An odd character sketch extols New England girls as wholesome yet exotic, contrasting Boston maidens with Western expectations. The narrator muses on beauty, health, and cultural contrasts, quoting a Western poet and reflecting on a longing for distant locales.
The text describes a confused scene involving an army, its commander, and a controversial campaign. It recounts injuries and deaths among soldiers, noting discontent and manipulation that left subordinates unreliable and slow to aid. The language is garbled but centers on leadership failures and battlefield consequences.
Captain Churchill and the California Academy discuss ancient Pacific remains suggesting a submerged continental crust under Polynesia. The talk covers soundings from Fiji to Samoa and Tonga, coral bottom types, and massive mound and terrace structures in Easter Island, Rapanui, Nukahiva, and Kapiti. The lecture links subsidence to a vanished continent and notes ongoing submarine volcanic activity and magnetic variations.
A garbled colonial-era column reports on Swedish royal illness and Queen Victoria leaving Windsor for Europe, a West Virginia woman and dubious miracles, cranky proclamations about germ theory, Kiss values in Wisconsin, suffrage debates, an Austrian empress visit likely, and American tours by Fortescue and Abbey with scandalized theater mentions.
The Danens of Nevius at the Philadelphia Wirmad Academy hosts The Lading arp tormenting customers for dreamex during the Kirmes. Sheridan and Rico the Human Fly feature in upcoming shows. Carrie Swain and Elie Wilen receive casting. Baldwin stock in San Francia picks leading lady. Buffo Herr Lab rivals M Mezieres in Thalia. Peppered notes of Methtaslem, Pulcineli, and bandowmere activity fill the season as Manager McCann announces new productions.
Fragmentary OCR text discusses a theme of sheep and lambs, referencing the famed Mary and the world’s best sheep. It hints at comparisons with wolves and other animals, plus remarks on breeding, behavior, and motion.
The article surveys diverse topics from steel alloys and steam boiler care to electric railways and British machinery. It references Professor Webeky’s Idueism, Wiggin & Co silveroid, and medical testimonials for Patents like Penrsd, highlighting curious innovations and public discourse of the era.
A distorted description describes a wondrous bridge model by an inventor in Sargamah. The three story structure sits near a motel and figures move within a sea of figures including water like a real bridge. The device weighs about seventy pounds and uses a moving mechanism to simulate currents and lanes.
Trust sale of farm lands described by deed of triple mortgage dates, with a docket at the court of Onie Ancy. The sale is set for the Saturday before a February 8, 189? court date at the court house door. The property includes fields, walnut trees, hickory, and various tracts described by bounds and poles. The action is by a trustee to satisfy a lien and debts, with the sale placed under the authority of the court and the sheriff.
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