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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1893
Page
9
A lively account of May events and weddings in Wheeling society. Debutantes, nuptial gifts, and gatherings fill pages with decorations, dances, and exchange of bouquets as fashionable circles prepare for summer outings and social tours. The piece notes attire, venues, and key hosts across several households.
New Marfinsville and nearby towns report residents leaving on the Sunshine for Pittsburg with return planned. Miss Sadie Lenkard visits Hannibal. Col. W. W. Arnett and JS. McCaskey travel on business. A three year old, Camilla Duerr, is ill with scarlet fever but shows signs of improvement. The Bears trek correspondent laments a canceled fight due to other editorials. Mont Burrows advertises stock closeout at low prices. Various locals travel for professional reasons. A blind horse causes damage near the Brast House and J S McCassey’s office. The State Press Association meets at Martinsburg. Public schools end May 19 with a concluding program and a May 16 Magnolia high school commencement at the Bee House.
A fragment from Tiltonville notes about four dozen N R A Club members visiting Mt Pleasant for entertainment by Miss Blanche White. Local Henry Floto from Martins Ferry was in town. Yorkville coal works closed indefinitely. Miss Jennie Norton plans a Minnesota visit with Henry West’s family. Day remains ill with typhoid. Jennie Shively heads to East Liverpool to attend school. Rev Wilmot Mock travels through town toward Bridgeport. Alonzo Eastman of Long Run was arrested and jailed after a payment menaced by legal trouble.
Poem fragment recounts a mother and child dialogue about meals duties and a looming end of life. Figures referenced include Charlo and Manile while discussing weather tea bread and shawls. The passage evokes domestic routine and care within a family.
A note on Decoration Day plans in Linwood cemetery and a push for local fundraising to build a soldiers monument. Also reports on a theft case, Masons visiting Bellaire, ongoing street railway work, a new power house site, a river bridge scene, a successful cantata for church building funds, a jail escape in St Clairsville, community notices, school commencements and graduations, weather impacts, and various local movements and visits across nearby towns.
Local notices recount deaths, appointments, and court actions. Mrs fresident of gate city and Mrs Callahan mourned. ex governor Fleming mentioned. Remains of McCloud buried at Junction, Mrs Tibbs interred after death by suicide. Gen Sergheart to attend National Encampment. Clarksburg to consider a filtration plant. Days of observance and a failed lecture by Betva Lockwood noted.
Wamkernton reports a heavy thunderstorm Friday night with torrents of rain. Miss Everson closes her school today for a grand dinner and treat. J J Hodgen buys the ferry and a new boat is being built. Clow of the Mark Winnett visited town. George King and family and A Williams traveled to Steubenville to see the elephant. S H King and son A K stay with Pittsburg friends. Elisha Lewis loses a valuable horse. Bits Cook and Mrs McAdams on the Black List. Mrs Chamberlain remains ill. One O U A M ball is ready for playing. Mrs Hindman visits daughter Mrs Waddle in Brilliant. B Gowen of Waterville, Maine, visits the Good Templars Lodge. Mrs Yost and daughters shop in Wheeling.
In the Chamber of Deputies Signor Brin refused to answer a question about Austrian repression at Trieste for King Humbert’s silver wedding. Barzillal denounced the refusal as infamous and Italy’s dignity, while Giuffenda asserted Italy was never so insulted. The chamber was raucous as Brin stood firm.
Fragmented text urges Middle aged men to seek treatment for frequent evacuations and related symptoms. The rhetoric appears as a dubious medical claim from an old advertisement or notice. The passage mentions cure assurances and health remedies amid unclear context.
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