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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1883
Page
6
Fragmentary story fragment describes Liuness pleading for a bridegroom, a girl resisting departure to a betrothal, and a long train of family scenes. The scene shifts to Onikfield and Alice Marks the Lioness, a graceful village girl with large eyes and marked eyebrows, famed in local lore.
Alice Markham hosts a garden party where Bob Smith and Victor Smythe both pursue her affection. As the week unfolds tensions rise over a romantic contest, ending in heartbreak and confessions of past love, with Alice wavering between Bob and Victor.
A garbled excerpt details Victor Smythe, his family aliases, and a rekindled romance with Alice, ending in marriage three months later. It then shifts to local tidbits: a rattlesnake find near Haul, a partridge and chicken snake sighting, and assorted rural notices from Walker and Dublin counties with minor anecdotes about birds, nests, and a solitary tale of a Crooked-nosed man and a rebel-era encounter.
A New York cor respondent to the Chicago Eye recounts a German woman living near Central Park who, after an accident, sustains an odd household of trained animals. She directs cats, dogs, parrots, canaries, mice, and a rattlesnake, using commands to perform stunts, while explaining she supports her family by training animals for exhibitions despite hard times.
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