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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1889
Page
10
A garbled but dense notice page details travel opportunities and fare sales around July. It mentions various locations including Wheeling Cincinnati and Washington, with schedules and sale dates for tickets and excursions. It references a travel bureau style offer, and staff notes praising service quality and prior tours.
The paper reports Emily Pollock’s will appoints executors Moseisae and Jating Pollock, a five thousand bond, and notes various local happenings. It recounts a shooting incident involving Frohme and Gerstman, trial details, and a medical and charitable relief update with the Pittsburgh relief committee receiving funds.
Reports include a drowning at the riverfront after a man fell in near the towboat area, a gunman attack on Will Bell who escaped, and a suspect held on bail for robbery in Bellaire. Also noted are a real estate transfer, a Fulton independent voters ticket for July, a city directory update, and letters to the editor defending a charity claim and questioning a Postal Telegraph Company move.
The Jr. O. C. A. M. plans a State Fair Grounds picnic on July Fourth with a parade from Center Market to the Fair Grounds led by chief marshal W. W. Rodgers and marshals Joseph L. Dogant George FE Boyd Jr. and John Craft. An entertainment program includes a ball game between the Pittsburg Jr.1 and 8 club from Wheeling Conseil for ten dollars, a soap-free pig race for a five dollar gold piece, three legged race, goat race, fat man's race, and a hare race with prizes and bridle.
The Secretary of State lists two new incorporations. J. C. Roy & Co. formed to own and operate saw and planing mills, manufacture furniture, and conduct timber and log operations in Charleston with capital $500, later allowed to grow to $100,000. Five Charleston residents hold one share each. Kanawha Woolen Mill and Machine Shop authorized to manufacture wool and iron products, acquire or lease property, with charter expiring 1930 and $1,000 subscribed, $100 paid, shares $50, principals also all from Charleston. The principal office is Charleston. Also mentions local ads for bicycles and health tonic.
A fragmentary report notes a Friday visit to the Valley of Big Wheeling Creek with considerable damage over a limited area.
A severe storm Friday afternoon struck the Big Wheeling creek valley from Elm Grove toward the Marshall county line. Hail piled deep in places near Nick Schrader and Ebbert and Lasch farms, with reports of four inches of rain in short time. the creek rose rapidly, flooding ground and delaying B and O trains near Sunfish.
The verdicts of Daanim Salt Draquist Bippus and Abraham Hare affirm Electric Bitters as a universal cure for liver kidney and blood diseases. Testimonies from many others claim relief. Logan & Co. sell the medicine for fifty cents a bottle.
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