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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1893
Page
12
Amru Pasha lures Miriam to rival Rakiyah in a public snake dance at Cairo. Rakiyah schemes to ruin Miriam using Murad and Osman. A staged confrontation ends with Rakiyah killed, Amru shocked, Miriam spared, and Osman’s treachery exposed.
The Chicago Record notes the Midway Plaisance name is often mispronounced by the public. It discusses English and French origins of the word, arguing the French pronunciation with no final stress is likely to prevail, and cites speaker variations as evidence of evolving usage.
A humorously told domestic tale ends with a fake five dollar bill and a husband’s stingy surprise. In Zanzibar notes, elephants are hunted for ivory with heavy losses. tusks weigh twenty to twenty five pounds and about twenty thousand elephants are sacrificed yearly for Zanzibar markets and inland uses.
London Truth lauds the U S model of governance as the least meddlesome and most stable, arguing America preserves its own affairs, avoids foreign annexations, and prioritizes internal growth over expansive empire to create markets for its goods.
A wandering geologist notes farm lore in the Blue Ridge. He posts warnings to trespassers as a quixotic narrator recounts quail, ducks, a one day icehouse, and a philosophy of geology. The piece threads mountain life with a Vanderbilt land purchase and a wary regional stand. The narrator jokes about a hunter horse, plebeian hounds, and a mountain culture.
A description of a vain yet pretty woman at a reception where a stranger notes her as “the victim of the glass.” The dialogue hints at drinking, then shifts to imply appetite and nerves relieved by Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's pills as a tonic for fatigue.
The narrator Ransom Eldridge recalls a fever dream like tale in a Virginia mountain town. He relays a nurse with a magnetic yet unsettling presence who tends him as his fever climbs. He learns her husband’s illness, a new doctor, and a fatal medicine that leads to murder and betrayal.
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