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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1897
Page
5
A long OCR dominated list notes numerous individuals visiting, staying, or attending events in a city. It mentions delegates, judges, and relatives from states like Tennessee and Virginia, plus hotel stays, visits to New York, and various social engagements. The passage blends names, dates, and locations in a dense society column style.
A fragmentary item notes a meeting of a male club where 16 of 17 members admitted they had not met their wives before marriage. The report cites remarks from Miss Precovlops and Miss Younger, and includes a skeptical aside from Miggs.
Brooklyn husband Miles Miggs returns to find Bridget’s door chained and his key useless. After a nocturnal siege with ringing bells and a quarrelsome cop, Miggs, in a drunken frenzy, ends up crawling through a window. the tale unfolds with cats, a long gag of venting profanity, and a police intercession as he seeks access to his own house.
A garbled OCR style block mentions fabrics and various generic terms with unclear meaning, listing items like beads and textiles. Names and concrete entities are not discernible, leaving an unreadable fragment without coherent events or subjects to summarize.
A garbled OCR passage blends scattered ideas on economy and making furniture with stray phrases about turpentine and paint. It drifts through disjointed reflections on beauty, age, and social scenes, ending with jumbled lines about a postal cart and a newsroom dialogue.
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