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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1892
Page
9
January events highlight community joy as local groups confer, socialize, and share informal gatherings. Residents, including volunteers from multiple clubs, participate in seasonal activities signaling community cohesion and cultural traditions.
A detailed glimpse of leap year customs, weddings, dances, and social gatherings in Wheeling. The piece highlights engagements, charity events, card parties, proms, and entertainments across Island and surrounding neighborhoods, noting notable weddings, the Progressive Club, and social antics of young society figures during the season.
A Washington writer with mineral expertise explains agates as quartz varieties mostly from Brazil and South America. Stones are shipped to Hamburg and Oberstein for sorting selling and milling along the Idar river. Workers grind polish and color agates using oil water and acids to enhance layered patterns and beauty.
A Southern California observer notes the Salton Lake in the Colorado Desert is vanishing, leaving a dry lake bed. He cites humidity, oppressive heat, and risks of early frosts harming industries, arguing no permanent lake will form by natural means.
Joseph Holly, head agent for the Massachusetts Law and Order League, arrived in Woodstock as an informer in the Scott case. He collected information against several illegal liquor sellers while travelling. Yesterday he was arrested for operating without a license, failed bail, fined, and jailed amid great local excitement.
A quirky 19th century column reports on two women in St. Louis County making otto thane from rose leaves, selling for high prices though not for sale, plus Decatur Women's Club building a four story clubhouse costing $15,000 for 180 members and 83 stockholders. Also recounted are tales of a brave girl rescuing a horse, fashion notes on vanity items, London society’s beauty contests, and other human interest items from women’s clubs to public notices.
Work began on the Madison and St. Clair Celt Hee road to connect Burnley with East St. Louis and allow entry into St. Louis via its own roads and bridges.
An aged testimonial describes years of blocked nose headaches and breathing trouble. The speaker credits CAMABE & Bod tonics and other remedies from Doctors Copeland and Mela in Wheeling West Virginia, claiming dramatic relief after four months of treatment.
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