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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1896
Page
11
A flood of social notes and announcements recount weddings, engagements, and society gatherings. The piece highlights ceremonies at St. John Murphy’s Betinia and St. Swithin Cathedral, lists attendees, and notes future weddings and concerts. It references local clubs, musicians, and a stream of summer plans, including dance events and a hospital reception.
In Wheeling and Parkersburg society notes, weddings and engagements mark a lively season. Father Boutleu performs a nuptial at St Joseph Cathedral. Miss Katherine Kinney and Mr Thomas Howley wed with family and friends in attendance. Meanwhile dances, birthday parties, and visits abound as residents travel to Charleston, Cincinnati, Chicago, and beyond, with Elks, mandolin clubs, and theater plans fueling the social calendar.
Yesterday several visitors checked into area hotels including Mr. Thomas D. Reilly of New York a shoe man at the Windsor and Mr Edward Gallagher a passenger brakeman on the Ohio River railroad who spent Sunday with Edward Mason at the Windsor Other guests listed include R Deuel Sistersville W M Carr Zanesville E J Murphy Pittsburg Hogg Cadiz Isaac Hinds Baltimore B McKeown W T Lyle Toledo George O Leary Mannington Hall Washington Pa and Miss West along with Mrs Connelly of Sis- whose full names and affiliations appear in hotel records as travelers in the city
A reader notes how instruments inspire admiration and desire to own a superb piano at home. The buy now with easy prices and payment terms promises accessible options for purchase.
Prominent oil men Earnest Queen Thomas Ligget and others from Pittsburg visit Milligan Wilkin Co and McLarr Our Prof Levitt fits eyes with spectacles. Dillon Wheat Hancher Co announces millinery arrivals and a grand opening with lunch. stores on Main Street promote new patterns and specials.
Special to the Register reports that new post offices were established in Ro mant Fayette county with John H. Skaggs as postmaster. McGrath named postmaster at Reuceverte, Walter McCraster appointed at Holywood in Monroe county with Fisher at Marte in Roane county. May 164.
An obscure clipping presents garbled dialogue about a British lion and a pig's tall, referencing Madge Mabel with a Paris delivery and mice, yielding a fractured, puzzle-like snippet from a newspaper page.
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