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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1892
Page
5
A garbled OCR collage presents assorted items from a newspaper page. It mentions deliveries to homes, weekly and daily routes, names of street addresses, potential names of editors or contributors, and scattered snippets about society notices, shipping, and commerce. The batch includes scattered mentions of public figures and places, with no clear single event.
A garbled dispatch parades ominous prophecies of a Russian triumph and European collapse. It cites imagined campaigns, uprisings, and continental realignments amid a flutter of warlike rhetoric attributed to a nameless source. The piece also blends royal gossip about Prince and Queen tall tales, plus a note on Cardinal Massing’s record and a political update from Washington. The overall tone mimics sensational early 20th century journalism with speculative doom and court intrigue.
A Charleston observer recalls an all day cock fight near Orangeburg with birds weighed and spurred for battle. The event drew Charleston guests, featured two bouts, betting at a roadside game, and ended with a calm reunion as the writer notes fair play amid festive countryside.
The Cardinal writes from Barrimone January 11 1892 urging opposition to the Louisiana lottery. He links its evils to vice theft and family hardship, calling for public morality and its suppression nationwide including Maryland and the District of Columbia. The missive is addressed to Gen George D Johnston and signed J. Ga.xorsar Ginnoy.
An open letter to Harvard College leaders accuses a secret society of barbaric initiation rites including branding and burns, likening practices to Fiji natives and degraded tribes. Garrison calls for legal interference, condemning intoxication and immorality surrounding undergraduates and urging reform at the university.
In New York at the Lenox Lyceum on January 22 George F. Slosson and Jacob Schaef er, longtime billiards rivals, prepare for a thirty-fourth meeting spanning straight rail cushion caroms balk-line and champion’s games. Slosson holds a 17-16-0-0 edge in wins across 33 prior matches. Shaefer shows dazzling wrist work and steady round-the-table plays. fans anticipate a great contest for the world championship emblem now held by Schaffer.
Arrival and departure times for trains on and after December 1st 841. Includes schedule items to and from Central Depot and Main Line routes with various stops such as Cumberland, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and New York. Contains numerous times and line details for passenger services and transfers.
The article explains a chalk-line billiards variant with a table divided into four small and four large squares by chalk lines fourteen inches from the rails. Players may aim for the central big square but must drive at least one object ball out of a cushioned square on the second shot when balls enter any of the eight near cushions. If unsuccessful, the turn ends with a miss. If two object balls are straddling the line they are out.
Prince Louis Clovis Bonaparte faced court on a charge of defrauding his first wife Rosalie Bonaparte of jewelry valued at £ 20,000. The magistrate lowered bail from £ 5,000 to £ 1,000 and released him, with his mother as security, as Rosalie seeks divorce alleging he gave her jewels to his second wife Laura Elizabeth Scott.
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