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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1886
Page
7
In Lindstoy's Woods Mrs Finn battles a distraught ghostly scene as a bedtick on her child’s bed curiously becomes the focal point of a chilling domestic drama. A tense, roaming dialogue reveals fear, danger, and a possible link to hydrophobia fears amid village whispers and medical speculation.
A fragmented reminiscence from a typographer recalls a luck run at a foregone bar and a vivid New York anecdote about Grand Duke Alexia in 1871. It blends fashion notes on white fabrics, summer trends, and street details with stray hotel and poker-room memories from Court Street.
A garland of text hints at floral accents in upcoming fashion, noting pale white ribbons and white flowers as popular. It mentions rose and red tones with velvet textures and a broad range of shapes from simple to ornate, describing color gradients from pink to dark crimson.
A sprawling, fragmentary fashion notice surveys bonnet colors and fabrics. It details pale pinks, navy, lilacs, creams, Tuscan tones, and new shade names with references to beads, pearls, and accessories. A separate anecdote describes a bicycle rider engulfed in smoke near Church Street during a nighttime parade.
A long readable fragment recounts a Florida river wharf scene where Sambo the fisherman flexes patience while catfish dominate the riverbank diet. It blends anecdotes of a poker night and a sleepwalking blackout with a second hand portrayal of fishing culture and the catfish delicacy as a centerpiece of African American life by Jacksonville’s St Johns river wharf.
A confused reminiscence weaves a tale of counting a hidden stack of money and a gambler turning to fortune, followed by a long, vivid fishing scene. It blends a narrator’s baffling windfall with colorful banter about Percy's fishing trip and Sambo the fisherman, ending on rustic food and sea life lore.
A garbled vintage medical advertisement extols a product labeled Catarial Solvent. It touts quick relief from catarrh symptoms such as watery discharges and throat irritation, claims dramatic curing power, and promises rapid relief with a single application. Contains stray brand-like phrases and nonsensical lines typical of old OCR ads.
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