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Wheeling Sunday Register in Wheeling, West Virginia

11 Jun 1893

Page 8

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Wheeling Sunday Register

Location

Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jun 11, 1893

Page

8

Quaint colonial relics and European roving queens headline viewed

Readable excerpts describe colonial autograph relics, famous letters, and a grand exhibit in a government building with marines guarding. It notes Queen Margherita of Italy and Queen Pia of Portugal at a Rome carnival, plus fashion trends in dresses, shoes, and hats. Also covers Catholic women’s organization, a black speaker Ida Wells in Britain, and social curiosities from London clubs to Dresden.

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Knox Mra Wannington Waleh Board of Woman Managers Shell Eovre Wiratata South Carolina Georgia Massachusetts America Joh Alden Miles Standfab Benedict Arnold Aaron Horr General Washington Geo. Burgoyne Saratoga Geo. Putnam Pomfret Coo John Hancock John Quincy Adams Paul Rovers Puillag Revare Joseph Warner Roger Williams Gov Winthrop Portugal Rome Ateence Aonot Ale Italy Tagus Carbone Lay Organization of Women Catholic Lay of Srecant James McNeill Whistler Soar Ambaston England London Steland Pall Mall Margherita Princess May of Teck Princess May Duke of Clarence Prince of Wales Recas Dresden
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Letters on Pointers and Books by Edgar Nye

A collection of reader notes and a humorous critique on books and editors. It includes letters from Alick Van Passerup and others proposing comic orations, discussions on how to choose books, and a prose piece on a poet author awaiting a reader’s guess. It ends with an anecdote and a verse excerpt about a pivotal day.

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Edgar W. Nye Ideus Andrew A. Smith Alick van Passerup New Berlin Union County Max Nie Central Pennsylvania College Cyclopedia Gene Field
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Merchants' St Paul welcomes rubber stamp hotel register

A traveler at Merchants' Hotel in St Paul uses a rubber stamp to sign the register, sparking amusement and debate about faster check ins and legibility. The anecdote contrasts traditional pen signatures with the stamp, noting efficiency and the prominence of the name on the page. The piece nods to a broader late nineteenth century mood and distant plans for a world fair around the turn of the century.

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St. Paul R. Duke Barnum New York Penman Bey Jerusalem
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Sarcophagus, manners, and a costly checkerboard mix in a bemused column

The passage muses on modern manners for girls in public spaces and motherly training, then shifts to antiquity with a note on sarcophagus defined as a stone coffin found at Assos in Lycia. It ends with a Chicago man building a glue‑laminated checkerboard of 29,070 wood pieces worth $1000.

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Woman's Congress Chicago Philadelphia Women Friends Elise Hoydent Ward Mateag Eoftes
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