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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1892
Page
5
A desolate economic scene across Monongah and nearby towns shows mine trade stagnation and plant closures. An enthusiastic Monongah Workers meeting led by District President Moran urged disciplined organizing, with plans to place check weighmen on Nos 1 and 3 shafts Monday.
The piece chronicles roped matchups and rivalries among boxers including Hall, Chuginski, Fitzsimmons, and Pritchard, with notes on Charley Mitchell and Olympic Club politics. It also covers Governor Flower’s physical culture regimen, public interest in training, and broader boxing context including Joe Oboyinski and Joe Smith, plus commentary on American pugilists and foreign challengers.
Numerous items from theaters and venues across New York Brooklyn and San Francisco noting dangerous gallery stairs Agness Huntington Agnes Huntington laryngitis ankle injury and touring plans Digby Bells Jupiter and Child of Fortune Veggies cash farm purchase by James Owen OConnor Willard Newell and William Newell The Operator Farces and weather jokes Pat Gilmore Parker Otis Skinner Modjeska Ezra Kendall A Hole In the Ground Walls of New York formats and theatre company movements with mixed business results.
Bartaiant O May 14 Hon Smiley JH Johnson long time Jefferson county figure dies after general debility aged about 98. He served in the Legislature and as county commissioner, tracing lineage to Oliver Cromwell. Interment held in Smithfield. Other items note visits, a bicycle accident at bar mill, a moonlight excursion, and SC E convention attendance in Wellsburg.
Representatives of Evanaville observed various svorks at a recent session. The council decided to pave parts of Pearl and Chester streets, funding pending revenue. A Bennett party prepared to depart for Louisville to work with clay products. Several residents and visitors from Schuyler, Bellaire, Wheeling and other towns were noted. Decoration Day preparations were announced and an anti saloon meeting was planned.
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