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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1884
Page
5
The report outlines rising worker organization and strikes across the iron and steel sectors. President Weihe and secretary Searl push for broader union action while wage disputes, concessions talks, and confrontations with factory management intensify. The piece notes widespread mobilization in the western states and a mood of growing solidarity among miners and mill workers.
The report outlines continued coal and steel production activity across Pennsylvania and neighboring states. It notes a fatal accident on a slope and various mine strikes and labor conditions. It highlights rising demand shifts, plant reopens, new rolling mills, and large bridge and rail rolling orders, with major firms like Keystone Bridge and North Chicago Rolling Mill involved.
The Belaoat gla works reported improvements after a brief shutdown due to unseasonable gles. James Barks resigns as achsmith. John Brown replaces him at Belcont. Finagins and National ginas plants resume, repacking stock and boosting output. warehouse upgrades underway as weather eases and demand remains brisk.
A long, fragmented report details stoppages and repairs at several plants including Bellaire Stamping, Laughlin Mill, and Union Flint Works. It notes shifts, heat counts, and proposed increases in brick production, with mention of master planners, foremen, and local labor disputes over eight versus seven heats per day. The piece also references seashore leisure, extended business trips, and ongoing construction of a brick dry house poised to boost capacity.
A collage of quips on courtship and marriage, along with fashion trends. Snippets joke about wills and love, postal rates, a lamp for lovers, and playful comments on bonnets, sailor hats, corsages, and spring outfits. Mentions Boston to Norristown, with century style and domestic humor throughout.
A fragment shows varied curiosities from a 19th century paper: a humorous note on an inmate of a boarding house and the keeper’s reply, a Philadelphia Call joke about moral advice, and a long piece on chewing gum demand. It mentions schoolgirls chewing gum, a French trader selling gum in Clored Falls, and prices near $1 per pound with shipments to Belfast. The excerpt then jumps to circus or horse race advertisements and a picaresque street scene about a question from a depôt man and a razors bet.
A mother left her infant two years old in a carpet store last week. The clerk, busy with other customers, forgot the child behind a roll. The child was found asleep, fed at a restaurant, then returned to the mother who rushed away in alarm. Police or officials were not mentioned.
In a parlor scene the two speak of time as Abe grows sleepy. Hie checks a watch that lacks five minutes of eleven and muses on why his watch is like hers. The exchange ends with the young man leaving as Berine notes the watch won’t go.
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