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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1897
Page
3
iFATHEN CONCERTINA CHRISTIAN COUNTRY a long fragmentary piece discusses music and instruments including cymbals tom toms and a war era context. Helen Ward and a Chickamauga battle excerpt appear, with an anecdotal farmer recounting Civil War memories and a brief household vignette about a stranger. The text blends musical commentary and historical reminiscence in a dated newspaper voice.
A noisy paste of OCR garble mixes political, cultural, and social fragments, including names, stray phrases about meetings, religious notices, dinners, and jokes. It appears to be a collage rather than a coherent article, with abrupt shifts between dialogue, anecdotes, and generic notices.
In Oceanic New York and South Brintree the famed gambler Col William L Blanchard alias Big Bill Leggett hid a second life. He died childless leaving an estate of 70 to 80 thousand dollars, with heirs in Maine and New York. Lawyer George A Smythe traced missing kin including a brother Thomas Leggett and a reclusive wife figure Fanny Berkelser, revealing decades of gambling houses and a portrait of a man who shunned scrutiny while funding relatives and some lovers from his ill gained wealth.
A Macon Georgia family credits Swift's Specific S S S with curing a severe inherited scrofula in their child after many treatments failed. They praise the remedy for clearing sores, restoring health, and claim it as the sole guaranteed blood medicine for deep seated diseases like scrofula rheumatism and eczema.
An advertisement states the product is purely vegetable and free from potash mercury or minerals. It claims to prevent disastrous drug effects and offers valuable books mailed free to any address by the Swift Specific Company of Dusata Ga.
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