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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1891
Page
6
A crowded urban feature describes alley bowling as a new social fad. Women and men attend public lanes, with concerns about attire and etiquette, while venues offer stylish clubs and competing leagues. The piece notes growing popularity across neighborhoods, including Harlem, with emphasis on sociability, exercise, and mixed gatherings.
A dense, fragmentary sketch of a late fashion scene. It mentions the Twilight Canvey clubs, exotic garments, and a social circle that blends antique lace and china with modern drawing rooms. A Thirsday evening cult of dress and gossip centers on a stylish young woman known for classic tastes and Thursday engagements.
A man recalls a night at his Maine home where a second self appears on the stairs and later in the drawing room. His wife Lilly notices the double first, followed by two other women, confirming an apparent living apparition. The narrator seeks an explanation, noting no physical or mental abnormality and dwelling on the puzzling duplication.
An oral tapestry unfolds from the Old Settler and Squire era, recounting famed figures like Nosey Frazelpeck and Laddybuck with tales of humblest men, farmsteads, and county legends. It blends mock-heroic anecdotes, local rivalries, and community humor across Corners tavern nights, deer hunts, and Tidfits lore, ending with domestic vignettes of Polhemus Diltz and family life.
A colorful New York fashion column satirizes churchgoing attire and the era’s extreme style. It notes waistline exaggerations, color harmony rules, bleached hair trends, and the social spectacle of spring outfits with sharp, humorous commentary on millinery and dress sham. The piece riffs on public appetite for conspicuous wardrobe and the peculiarities of high society couture.
A hazy reminiscence recalls walking a Niagara Street scene where a man recounts a strange exchange. He claims two men, neither of whom fought at Gettysburg, disputed a memory while a stray conversation turned toward dangerous threats and a sudden departure into the night.
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