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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1889
Page
2
A garbled account describes two champions in a major event with boxing and performance notes. It mentions notable rivals and audience reactions as the scene unfolds amid unclear details and fragmented phrases.
The article recounts a violent border vendetta involving James Arthur, a North Carolina planter, who killed a victim in a fit of anger and fled to the mountains before surrendering. It details Carpenter’s rise among mountaineers, his role in instigating feuds, the lynching of McCoy brothers, and the subsequent pursuit by the McCoy family leading to Carpenter’s disappearance.
A muddy narrative traces the Hatfield McCoy feud through Pike and Logan counties, detailing murders raids and ambushes from 1878 to 1890. It recounts Randall McCoy and Anderson Hatfield rivalries, mass executions led by Frank Phillips, Cross river incursions, and the brutal killings of Vance, Hatfield kin, and others as violence roiled the Kentucky West Virginia border.
A wartime era scene describes Hatfields and kin hiding in rugged Tug River country after clashes with the Phillips group. A correspondent details encounters, the Hunter family’s wary welcome, the dangers of pursuit, and a fortified log fort across the ridge where residents prepared for possible capture.
A fragment describes Sanford's Radicat Care a one bottle kit sold for $1.18 claiming to free users from poison and disease. The text touts a Kenneay bottle and an inhaler style pan with directions, pitched as a universal remedy despite unclear ingredients and dubious efficacy.
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