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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1890
Page
9
An odd collage of racing notices and ads describes a harness race meet with nine entries, premiums, and conditions. It references officials, entry fees, premium passes, and weather contingency. The document also includes unrelated advertisements for maps, shoes, and local services, plus a brief note about electric lights and photography offerings. The piece blends event details with commercial notices and local promotions.
The Board opened bids for sewer projects including Seventeenth Street from alley B to Wood Street at set rates, Mauricot Street from Tenth to Eleventh, McCollord Street east side from Party-think Street to Morky Fifth Street, Alley E Forty-third to Forty-fifth, Forty-first to Forty-second, and Seventeenth Street from Wool Street to the brook, plus Alley Gi and Twelfth Street sewer work. Contractors Riley, Troy, Linahan, O NeaI, Clark, Lemon, and others named. work to start on Market Street as weather allows.
Washington Reporter details preparations for a massive blasting at a rock quarry near Wheel Line creek by Paig e Carey Co and Wheeling Bridge contractors. Supt Mike Corrigan directs holes drilled sixteen feet deep and ten feet apart along the rock face as workers strip, drill, and split blocks for bridge and curbstone, with a test blast moving the last rock block and revealing a significant crack.
Partial readable text references patent hours and wires with terms like Liminx and Dr Brentinger. The passage mentions blood related treatment and a Sarapirtitn product, but details are unclear and names are fragmented.
The Police Department reported June receipts totaling 87 295.15 for the first half of the year, with a patrol wagon traveling 125 miles and hauling 115 persons including wounded men. LaBelle Lodge No.2 A U M installed officers, noting 100 members and years of deaths and widows paid. Fishing camps near Wilson's station report rumors and plans for a yearling business. local figures and a gallery visit wrap the day.
An advertisement invites patrons to visit Tappan and Connel's Gallery at 1121 Main Street to view and purchase fine photographic work. The note emphasizes quality and showcases available prints.
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