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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1883
Page
7
A garbled, OCR style summary lists diverse items including theft of two hundred pounds of gold from PPargo & Co, fatal accidental shooting, weather notes, corporate boards, political mentions, strikes, a Steubenville-related incident, and unrelated scattered events across towns like New Wetherland and Latrobe. Names and places are inconsistently captured amid abrupt topic shifts.
A 19th century note on the Cincinnati newspaper consolidation details tensions among Commercial Gazette and Commercial-Gasette factions. It describes editorial control, personalities like Halstead Reid and Finton, and shifts in rooming, seating, and power dynamics within the merged paper in a charged, insider tone.
The Senate discussed multiple bills including Renate and Vapmeter measures reenacting sections of state code and funding the hospital for the insane from a previous balance. It also examined a rail extension proposal by the Iron Valley and Morgantown railroad company, with amendments debated and the measure laid on the table.
Mrs EB Madison of Try N I arrived in Cleveland with three young children on a trek toward Niles Michigan. She had traveled after using cash to support a parental plan while her husband and mother disposed of household effects. The journey stalled between Meadville and town as snow fell and the fatherless family pressed on.
A Boston lawyer recounts a remarkable true romance from 1861 in which a schoolgirl, married secretly to a fellow youth, bears a child and years later reunites with a dying husband who seeks to leave her his estate. She confronts him, declines, and travels with only her story and resolve. The piece frames real life as richer than fiction.
The Bellaire and Martin's Ferry glass and lamp works expand production and hire. New ten pot furnace nearing completion at Bellaire Lantern Globe Works. Bellaire Window Glass, Elson Glass, and Etna mill projects advance with anticipated spring trade and price trends. Union street factory expansion planned. several plants overhaul equipment and resume operations as weather allows.
A fragmented World of Wyoming notes recounts a man moving from New England to cattle near Laramie, Calamity Jane’s reappearance on the warpath, Jupiter’s evening rising, and a lively but tangled scene of social quirks including cards, duels, and frontier life.
The piece surveys lace bodices, tulle veils, and satin underskirts, noting corsages from Parisian florists and the sharp drop in millinery and dry goods costs this year. It describes collars, sleeves, and silhouettes favoring a supple, streamlined look and warns against padding and corsets.
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