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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1889
Page
7
Fragmentary wartime reminiscences cover civilians and soldiers, including a wife confronting a rebel resister, General Gramk's reception, Hickey family tensions, and postwar gossip. The report blends vivid scenes of streets, a courtroom stance, and social fibers from a distracted city. Notable names appear among scattered events and places.
In Schweinfurth Community near Rockford a new faith founded by Dora Beekman and her husband spreads rapidly. Followers worship a former preacher as bishop, claim miracles, and abandon traditional churches leading to several church departures and trials.
At Leatherwood Creek in Guernsey county near Barnesville in August 1828 the United Brethren camp meeting was disrupted when a man named Dyke claimed to be the Messiah and to shed miracles. He urged followers to form a New Jerusalem, prompting arrests, mob action, flee into woods, and a journey to Philadelphia and Baltimore before returning home.
Pant Merciar recalls a sweltering summer aboard a Key West ship in 1859. The sun beat down on a pitch covered deck as he pressed frea edge eggs on the deck. In minutes the eggs hardened from heat, a story he insists is true despite sounding improbable.
The piece analyzes comic opera making, arguing for a coherent plot, distinct acts, and fitting music to libretto. It mocks superficial pastiches, urges strong characterization, clear enunciation, and a unified creative process from libretto to score. It also notes gender anecdotes and humorous vignettes about hens and village life.
In a comically tangled transcript, a German speaker recounts encountering a con artist who passes a counterfeit check. Sergeant Bendall questions the scene as the man misreads the crook's ploys, mistaking accents, while the victim realizes the sting only after the swindler escapes with money and a worthless note.
A fragmented Indianapolis area tale recalls two girls a nun-like girl with a purple pansy and a black-eyed companion on a city train. The flirtation leads to a minister’s sermon on iniquity, with social clash at a bank and a poetic obituary causing a cash balance dispute. Also noted is a divorced hotel keeper who funds three charitable institutions in memory of his wedding or divorce, and an arty love poem excerpt from a stage vignette.
An old advertising column touts Sanford's Radical Cure for catarrh with claims of restoring taste and smell. It lists a kit including Radical Coke, a CATAHRILA product, and a Naw KEN TSHALuN, priced 5L00, offered by Portes Dave & Cutentea in Boston with accompanying salves and plasters for pains.
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