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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1896
Page
4
Retail ad from The Leader motivates curtain fabrics, dress goods, and accessories. It lists numerous price points on curtains, netting, woolen fabrics, and related notions, promising bargains and highlighting department specials including silk bargains, mohair skirts, and fashion garments amid a broad sale at 1020 Main Street.
A bold sales pitch touts a vast array of dress goods and accessories, claiming unmatched variety in fabrics like Persian silks and mohair blends, with new departments for men and children's wear. Emphasizes low prices and latest styles to lure customers.
The ophthalmoscopic examination helps assess refractive media optic nerve and retina and eye interior to reveal pathology and guide treatment. Prof Levitt has studied eye care and correction methods, offering free advice on potential benefit with satisfaction guaranteed.
Le Levipt Wheeling Register notes Easter Millinery Opening featuring latest New York fashions in bonnets hats and dress trimmings. Event spans Thursday and Friday March 27 with main street venues and decorative items including nets chiffons and new linings.
Advertises a Saturday March performance of For Fair Virginia at the Opera House with Rose Whytal’s new play praised for originality. Also notes New York Stars vaudeville acts and European acts, with performers Ani and Tne, Mile. Florizell, American Manns, Rhodes, and others. McLure House Pharmacy advertises ownership change and services.
The Fort Henry Lodge No 2 issues a solemn tribute to Brother Charles W. Drivhorst, praising him as a devoted husband and loving father. The resolutions express condolences, faith in heavenly guidance, and a wish for his family’s comfort, with publication in The Sunsey papers and archival inclusion. Also advertised are Dinger's Shop at 26 Eleventh Street offering women's and men's shoes with a money-back guarantee.
Round trip excursion from Wheeling on Thursday March 19 at 12:25, 4:55 and 6:45 p.m. Tickets are $3.00 to $5.00, valid ten days. Sleeping car space and details available from B&O agents.
MOUNDSVILLE updates describe Sabbath class gathering at Pearl Conant’s home, new resident Gee Cunningham on Second Street, Timothy Whalen’s release from jail for contempt, Busy Bee society at Miss Jane Blake’s, and upcoming school closure with graduation at the Opera House. Local births, deaths, and visits are noted along with plans for a Schubert Symphony Club concert, court adjournment, hotel management change, and various notices from churches and businesses.
Testimonials from Mrs. A Kuhn of Wheeling and Mrs. George Warfield of Baltimore praise Munyon cures for rheumatism digestion fever and indigestion. The page lists Munyon's Rheumatic Cure and Dyspepsia Cure at 25 cents with other remedies including Cold Cure Cough Cure Kidney Cure Headache Cure and Pile Ointment among many products and states free medical advice from Prof. Munyon at 1505 Arch Street Philadelphia.
Col Henry Watterson of Lewisville will lecture on the life career and death of Abraham Lincoln at the Opera House Friday evening. The Cincinnati Enquirer calls the talk a masterful wood painting of Lincoln praised as a memorable tribute and a storming address. Also notice Jos Winiesdorffer moves to 2263 Market street with a fine line of woolens and furnishings at low prices and Dr Ottman of Columbus Ohio will visit to a series of private hotel parlors with renowned skill and remarkable cures lasting March 24 25 26 in Ridgeport Sherman House Bellaire Globe Hotel with confidential consultations.
In Fairmont on March 21 Hon Jen Wilson and Wheeling Chief of Police Thomas Bennett visited. Payday at nearby mines. Raphael Hayden of Washington D C and Harry Sands of Wheeling visited. J M Hartley heads East to buy spring goods. Schubert String Quartet at the Opera House tonight via Y M C A. Ginner returns from Detroit with Opekiska Co. convention in Charleston planned. Skinner to lease and possibly sell hotel. George Burns joins West Virginia Grocery and Candy Co. Mrs Wand and infant visit from Charleston. Yeager’s store to open next Thursday. T W Fleming and daughter Jean depart for New York. Ama M Smith to start a local dance class post Lent. D O K K organized, parade in new uniforms. Bertha Williamson returns from Parkersburg. Williamson sisters to manage dining hall at Hotel Waverly.
In Fairmont West Virginia on March 21 a waiter named John Mitchell fired two shots at a fellow worker after an altercation at T F Watsons. All shots missed. Alvy Piers intervened and was struck on the hip by a stray bullet. Mitchell was captured and restrained. Diggs sustained a minor wound.
Money to loan on real estate offered by West Virginia Savings and Building Association. Room 14 Masonic Temple. Office hours are 6 15 to 11 am every Monday.
Our men’s two dollar shoes are perfection with styles from razor toe to square and all widths. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Hundreds of other bargains at Dinger's Shoe Store on 26 Eleventh Street.
A dialogic breezy exchange contrasts crowded ticket numbers with a witty take on possible defeats. The Republicans boast ten candidates per office versus Democrats, who retort that each Democrat defeated yields nine Republicans left, implying greater party strength.
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