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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1897
Page
10
Advertising copy touts simple packed canvass grips sold as alternatives to valises. Claims hold ample clothing without bulk, with sizes 16 to 24 inches, options in plain and feather best materials, priced from 58 cents to 2 dollars 49 cents.
Fragmentary OCR reads like a textile and leather goods ad. Mentions ribbons, plain fabrics in white and colors, Tower stripe designs, tassels, and leather items with color options and small price notes. Unable to determine cohesive sale or date.
The Vance Memorial Chapel near Altenheim in Pleasant Valley is dedicated this afternoon and opened for worship. The new Presbyterian congregation, organized a week ago, numbers over a hundred, with Inquiries about membership from First and Second Churches. The structure features Romanesque design, equipping an organ by Hook Hastings and a five bell chime set, with a green interior, oak doors, and a spacious auditorium to seat many, including Sabbath school facilities and basement dining rooms.
A fragment recalls the eighteen ninety three era. The white world wonder of arch and dome overshadowed nations. The prize at the fair favored Ayer’s Pills, marking a long-ago record show.
The text notes the continued public success of Ayer's Cathartic Pills since their preparation and asserts their fulfillment of promises. It highlights the pills' worldwide popularity and the World’s Fair medal of 1893 as recognition, underscoring a longstanding record of effectiveness.
A box making machine at Bloch Bros. tobuevo factory on South Side is described as an invention replacing several workers who previously produced bexts and boxes by hand. The plant may shut for repairs, while other local industries like Wheeling steel works and Warwick pottery report brief shutdowns and resumption plans. The cyclone-damaged Nash City Stamping works is repaired, and Mountain State fishing chland Riverside work camp near Woodlind is noted. The wind has one of the finest float houses along the Ohio river.
The Commissioners' Committee on Court House and Jail will meet tomorrow morning. A marriage license was issued yesterday to Walter Fluke of Franklin, Pa., age 0, and Mary Smith of Connellsville, Pa., age 21. Four police court cases yesterday morning. Ohio street near Zane street filled with excavated material. DB. & O. line near Hancock, Md, Doe Gulley tunnel work completed with new work in use. Humany Shelter took in four people from Nebraska last night. They aim to place two crippled girls and a baby girl in good homes. Rev. Joseph Speora to speak this afternoon at the men’s meeting at the M. ITAY. Employees at TT Goodwin & Compass's Wholesale Artic store presented manager Levis Schrader with a five umbrella. Mrs Schrader to visit Germany Monday. Offiers elected at Pans Lodge No. 2 A A of I: President D. O'Leary, Vice President Jon Millers Guide, Guard Ralph Wagner. Exceptional low rates to Minneapolis via the North-Western Line for convention use. The China & North-Western Railways highlight the North-Western Limited. July concert at Mozart Park today.
Officer Geary of Benwood arrested Wash Moore of Bellaire after he beat his sixteen year old son and tried to force him to join a cattle theft mission on Wheeling Creek near the river bank by the B and O bridge. The father, once jailed, planned to steal cattle and drive them to market. The son is kept in custody to testify. Moore reportedly served time in the Ohio penitentiary for cattle theft.
A South Side youth known as Collins faced a preliminary hearing before Squire Rogers on forgery charges after attempting to pass a counterfeit five dollar bill at Chas. Menkemeller's. He was committed to jail pending grand jury action. his firm employer Crawford Bros. questioned handwriting, with Collins previously employed by them. His mother resides in the Fifth ward, and he has prior penitentiary time for theft. a true bill could place him in prison for years.
Bridgeport Brannen Post and G A R change meetings to the first and third Friday monthly at the Bellaire post's request. Rev Heliar of West Wheeling has a hillside tent near the toll gate planned for several weeks of regular services. Families travel and visits occur in several towns. A July rail excursion sale and a Mozart Park concert are noted.
The readable fragment hints at patient care in a medical office with questions about eye pain and routine eye exams. It mentions old patients, charges, and a claim that success is measured by the number of recommendations from former patients.
Rail timetable lists arrivals and departures on and after May 16 with reference marks and times for B&O Main Line East and connections to Washington Baltimore Philadelphia Cumberland Cambridge Coklin Cincinnati Chicago Cleveland and other hubs. It shows multiple train movements, schedule notes, and express services across cities including Pittsburg Chicago and Steubenville with various arrival and departure times.
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