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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1897
Page
3
A brief notice reports the legal or memorial matter involving Wluonaires returning to Herer and to Albion where a memorial church at Albion valued at 150000 dollars is addressed. The item references church affiliation and a back door action with Green noted in relation to the event.
A sprawling 19th century memory piece recounts church building funded by Jay Gould and John D Rockefeller, detailing the Vanderbilt era, architecture, monuments, and the role of business in spiritual philanthropy. It blends portraits of donors with a wide tapestry of New York religious life and social commentary.
Fragment from a Philadelphia newspaper column notes rising dinner entertainment in elite homes around Rittenhouse Square with skirt dancing by visiting performers from New York. It quotes social commentary on progressive views, gender roles, and the era's evolving society, including a joke exchange about school and manners.
The narrative recounts John Sights, once living near Wingo Kentucky, now serving prison in four states for blowing, claiming he was harmed by poverty, failed marriages, and inability to obtain divorces. He narrates six marriages, each ending in desertion, and cites Massachusetts for divorce, Vermont for a scold, and New Jersey for desertion as examples.
A melodramatic memoir from a man recounting misadventures in love, marriage, and desertion across New York State Vermont and New Jersey. He narrates a string of failed unions, self-representation in divorce, and a brutal household collapse ending in separation and travel through crumbling domestic life.
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