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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1892
Page
2
A local notice announces a special sale of muslin undergarments and drapery items including Mopar samples and slightly soiled stock. Corset covers at half-price nine cents and up, chemises at nine cents and up, sit gowns at forty nine cents, white skirts at twenty four cents, drawers two cents and up, while supplies last.
A garbled 19th century OCR note describes a January cold snap in Wheeling. It mentions arrests and fines in a police report, a public sale advertisement, and a local bakery event. The piece notes legendry figures and a memorial for Mr. Krone while detailing slips of frost and crowd tumbles on icy sidewalks.
Representatives from Fos toria Glass Nall City Stamping Northwood Glass Buckeye Glass Wheeling potteries and other firms met at the Chamber of Commerce to organize a central buyers exchange for the Ohio Valley. A plan for a year round display center with about fifteen rooms and a central office was approved in principle, a committee was named, and a further meeting was set for next Wednesday night.
A wreck on the I O line near Wellaire delayed trains as a car toppled on a bridge. Two colored tramps, Lytton Mormon age 15 of Cabell county and Thoms Gluny of Kenwood, sustained injuries while several cars were damaged. The Ohio River railroad incident tore nine gondola cars from rails and twisted tracks near Thirty eighth Street, with passengers transferred to Blockros as crews cleared the wreck and restored service.
Transfers filed for record include G B Wincker to Benjamin F Bachmann for land on South Fant street worth $1200, Oliver E Murry to Emma W Spesre for 15 acres at $1000, and Dora Kronenweth to Frederick Beate for the north half of No 45 in Jonathan Fane's addition with a $1150 consideration, among others.
Baseball star Jack Glasscock, famed shortstop, earns big salaries but saves wisely. He built a new residence at North Front and Maryland, costing 3000 to 4000 dollars, designed by M. F. Glasey. The two story oak finished house features stained glass, a bay window, laundry, pantry, and three large bedrooms.
Cecil Smith suffered a bad work accident at a steel works last Friday injuring his leg and was treated by Dr. Haskin before returning home. The Ohio County Farmers Institute will meet at Elm Grove on the 21st and 22nd inst with expected attendance from the State Experimenter Corps and alliances from four Pan Handle counties.
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