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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1890
Page
6
Wheeling daily scene covers a busy July period with court actions, speed program decisions, and notices. The piece notes arrests in Fulton for disturbances, a murder inquiry in New Cumberland, a Wheeling excursion sale, and local business advertisements including a major shoe store near Market Street. Also referenced are freight and transportation updates, plus upcoming fairs and exhibitions.
A sober 24-year-old worker from Wheeling steel plant drowned while swimming in a deep river hole near Cresap's Grove on the Fourth. His distraught parents watched as efforts by Jim Travis, Mark Twain Club members, and others failed to recover the body by nightfall. The family had recently returned from a lengthy trip to Germany.
Through line offers first class Pullman and Wagner Sleeping Cars daily from Cincinnati to Mackinaw City via Cincinnati Hamilton Dayton and Michigan Central with sleepers leaving Cincinnati at 1 PM daily except Saturday and return from Mackinaw at 6 AM daily except Sunday. It touts convenient stopovers in Toledo and Detroit and promotes pamphlets via C H and D R and Michigan Central to Mackinaw Island and Michigan resorts.
The article discusses a proposed $100,000 appropriation to the W. & Ly Ee It. R to bring the railroad to Wheeling, arguing that railroads boost business and wealth. It also mentions Safes sold by the Globe Contract Co offering safes at half price and references ingok & Co.
Atlantic Tea Co reports its new roasting department is fully fitted with top roasting and cleaning equipment. The firm claims it uses only the best coffee grades, roasts for its own stores, and avoids poisonous mixtures, asserting their coffees are far superior to adulterated blends sold elsewhere.
A Spring Medicine from druggists promotes graple eat jay as a new remedy for consumption and headaches. Dr Silas Lang, in the Rocky Mountains, claims the blend of Oregon grape root and simple herbs dries and strengthens when poured on boiling water. Pack sells for 80 cents per package.
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