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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1896
Page
8
A lengthy survey details widespread labor actions across cities like Cleveland Toledo and Boston. It reports strikes, wage disputes, eight hour goals, and organizational changes among printers cigar makers plumbers and riveters, with notes on union formations elections and notable industry responses.
A St Louis dispatch cites a Sun report describing vigorous superstition surrounding the new Convention Hall in New York. Thirteen rows of windows, rows of seats, and thirteen entrances prompt forecasts of doom, while cyclone warnings arise amid talk of fate tied to the hall’s design and location near city hall.
A Barcelona newspaper editorial warns that Spain faces a costly, protracted war with Cuba. Weyler suppresses reports in Havana as Sagasti and Sagasia debate the scale of costs, sacrifices, and potential capitulation while the U S contemplates intervention.
Wheeling lodges report large turnouts as officers are elected for the capillary year. Officers include Chas P Wood High Priest and H B Baguley Scribe. Meetings spread through Bates Lodge, Albert Pike Preceptory, Nelson Lodge, Round Hill Lodge, Miriam Chapter, and the Masonic observance of St. John’s Day.
Franklin Lodge No 3 will meet Monday evening at the Odd Fellows Temple with second degree work expected and invitations extended to other lodges. Wildey Hezekah Lodge No 2 will meet next Wednesday. President Sister Roach plans to attend. Shield of Honor Zane Lange No 1 held a meeting with several applications and an upcoming initiation and officer installation next Friday.
Special to the Register from Clarksburg June 12 Populists met to appoint delegates to state and congressional conventions E J Sturm chaired P J Lynch delivered a populist speech C H Davis denounced opposition to any party Dr L A Davidson former Republican joined the movement They reaffirmed the Omaha platform favor government ownership of railroads and rejected state and national banks endorsing initiative and referendum They plan a county convention on July 9 1896
A dialogue snippet shows a college setting where a head of faculty answers about college colors, stating black and bite. The exchange references sport, fraternity, and a playful line from Puck. The text also quotes Helen Hunt Jackson on riches and perception.
A public interest notice on amateur poets at Newport and Richfield Springs writing drinking songs for spring water. It notes Miss Duer and Vanderbilt daughters publishing verse, the playful spread among society girls, and a Newport rival song about the Newport Salt Sea Song. The piece describes a six girl group called The Poetty Six and six lines copied among them for a reunion. It mentions a volume titled Drinking Songs of Summer and plans to publish original poems with gold lettering on Japanese fans and wall displays. The tone is observant and lightly amused by social printing fads.
A Washington Post vignette portrays Aunt Malinda, a cabinet wife’s cook, objecting to serving dinners for foreign ministers. She balks at “damn’ foreigners” and wolves in sheep’s clothing before learning the guests are diplomatic corps representatives in Washington. The mistress counters that the ministers are diplomats, not preachers.
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