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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1890
Page
3
A fragmented OCR page recounts labor actions, workers, and notices across multiple places with scattered names, dates, and incidents. The text blends descriptions of strikes, union activity, and local updates, including references to workers, officials, and period-era events, but is highly garbled and partially unreadable.
Preparations for the sixteenth session of the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias and the first encampment of the Uniform Rank in Milwaukee during July 7 to 12, 1900. The event will attract Knights and guests from across the nation, with a grand parade, camp sites, and ceremonial activities in a city famed as the Blue Beauty of the Lakes.
In a discussion of Birmingham England's sanitation, advocates urge cleaner streets, premises, and outbuildings to improve public health. The piece urges reform in Wheeling's health department, praising competitive water and waste removal plans and warning on disease from poor sanitary facilities. A separate column reports on Montana miners and two deceptive marriage schemes at a hotel, detailing a staged elopement and subsequent arrest-like uproar.
A New York special corrrespondent describes the approaching yachting season with lavish gowns and trousseau details for a prominent bride. The piece highlights red and white hairline striped outfits, flannel blouses, and sailor collars, noting affordable fabrics and the desire for stylish, washable travelwear amid seaside leisure.
An incomprehensible Wheeling text fragment presents Copeland Bell and a long list of names as witnesses in the Jona Marshall case. The garbled notes claim ongoing chapters about personal experiences, with scattered addresses, places, and unclear events, ending with a reference to a 27 letter or figure.
H.W. Covenay of Coleman Fernson & Co. endorses a tonic and mood remedy as the best for spring and summer use in this climate and offers a free mailed copy of a book on blood with skin diseases.
A woman praises Somony invented patent and fan for pocket concealment in a dress. The device slips into the waist area under the dress, hidden yet functional, as a seamstress rips apart a gown she wore for years to reveal the pocket’s existence.
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