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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1884
Page
7
The fragmented tabloid style narrative references a Milwaukee grocery, poems, and a chaotic scene with a boy, a hashtagged parade of bakery and plaster terms, and a tense confrontation over housing and property. Names, places, and dates are largely obscured by OCR garble.
A collage of humorous quotes and phrases from 19th century papers on love and flirtation. Snatches from Philadelphia Call and Burlington Free Press reveal witty takes on courting, etiquette, and the absurdities of romance with playful didactic tone.
A collage of garbled clippings mentions musical quirks, a Madison Georgia violinist found dead, and global commentary on culture. References include the Herald of Des Moines, Hilmarck Tribune, Burlington Free Press, and Somerville Journal, with scattered notes about canaries, intoxicated revelers, and a chaotic mix of vocalists, professors, and performers.
Fashion notes on babies wear featuring crochet preemies, long bibs, elbow length mittens, soft whites and new handkerchiefs sized larger than babies, feathered blankets in blue and gold, lace caps with ribbon bows, and washable furways. Styles emphasize button hole stitching and ribbon fastenings.
A Philadelphia Belle laments a suitor’s absence and gloves on a windy courtship. A New York Belle sympathizes, noting her beau’s distant behavior and excuses. They advise reading the papers for guidance and comfort amid romantic strain.
A landlady confronts a long term boarder who asks for money for a roommate. She refuses, arguing she will not loan funds or propagate dependency. The discord centers on whether aiding the roommate is appropriate while the landlady defends her stance with firm principle.
The piece urges Congress to pass labor protection against pauper European labor imported under contract. It condemns capitalists for seeking free trade in labor while demanding protection for their own goods, and notes hearings by the House committee on labor with mixed views from industrialists and labor advocates. It cites Thomas Mellon’s remarks on labor mobility and protection, and reports on local factory activity and job changes amid ongoing industrial shifts.
An English engineering society watched a Hadfield Foundry Co discovered steel with 12 percent manganese bend a bar cold yet it remains hard for turning iron. An adz and an ax show high manganese content and the claim that manganese steel can be cast without tempering into tough yet sharp tool material. Reports note widespread industry activity, mill openings, wage reductions, and labor tensions as coal and steel firms expand, while a New Jersey child labor inquiry reports 7,000 underage workers.
The Pittsburgh region considers a Wanston Lawrence county steel plant funded by local donors with about $3 raised. An Eastern syndicate reportedly bought the A. B. Hallis Co factory and will ship the machinery East. Pittsburgh mills face wage reductions and labor disputes while larger factory repairs and new machines emerge across multiple states, with firms like Belmont planning new factories and others expanding operations in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and surrounding areas.
Reports on disputed wages and plant closures in green glass bottle houses. Pittsburgh and Joliet firms show fair trade, Denver plans rapid setup, LaSalle project moves toward commissioning. Jinan & Co on Southside to reopen two weeks, wage rates rival pre strike. Cooperative glass works projected in Wampum, natural gas to be used in SMeeco plant. Fire at D O Cunningham plant adds urgency ahead of April.
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