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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1883
Page
3
A garbled wartime style column recounts odd scenes from Central Kentucky with a theatrical trampling of events. It weaves a dramatic tale of a mysterious light, a brakeman’s demand for payment, a divorce quip, and a quirky moral musings about love, art, and theater amid a city’s bustle.
An old Eureka shaft abandoned for three years draws workers who disturb a mass of large rats. Joe Cummings descends with a rope for safety and is nearly swallowed by the creatures as he escapes. Surface powder and a destroyed rat the first trip, while rats supposedly exit through crevices to the shaft. Strangely, dead rats pile at the bottom on return, the shaft later yielding only lifeless rats found inside and debris carried in by the rats over years. Nearby, the town reports such a swarm near Eureka inviting fear of a nearby danger.
A long readers’ section outlines farm outlooks for West Virginia with weather notes on corn oats fruit and general signs of spring. Garden guidance covers planting schedules soil upkeep weed control berry beds and specific crops from beans and cabbage to tomatoes celery and onions. Also included are household cooking tips and a rustic chat on ranching profits in the state.
A mixed newspaper fragment covers cooking steps for cutlets with fried onions, plus observations on Wheat crops, emigration potential for tropical crops, fruit grafting difficulties, and a long digression on a poker anecdote. It notes Missouri and Indiana wheat conditions, climate advantages, and a cautious economic tone about crops and markets. Newswriter discusses emigration, grafting challenges, and a poker tale about a General at a party.
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