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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1896
Page
2
Harvey Lincoln reports on a phonographic stage system using saline ear stimulation to transmit sound to deaf and partially deaf audiences. The method enables many deaf patrons to hear live performances via finger to ear signaling, with costs tied to equipment. The article notes benefits for a large deaf community and potential theater accessibility implications.
A witty dialogue unfolds with a young man and a pompous patron, then shifts to a grimly comic poem celebrating the dentist. The piece blends caustic humor with macabre, lampooning the agony and bravado of dental torture in mock heroic verse. The dentist becomes the central figure in a chorus of exaggerated suffering and relentless inquiry.
Two men argued a financial question with contrasting styles as horses tied nearby shifted impatiently. One spoke with rapid gestures and palm thumps while the other expressed restrained emotion. The scene suggested a long, heated discussion about money and value beyond daily chores and meals.
Fragmentary OCR from a 1909 Chicago piece hints at coastal fashion and social reflection. The text references a shiplike shirt waist farewell and teasing lines about fashion, age, and wit, with a murky City Journal quotation about a Wavele searcher.
A garbled OCR fragment references Kaiulani a healer figure in Hawaii with themes of death, devotion, and restoration. It mentions Kilauea eruptions, a heatho Christian lineage, and a revolutionary dynastic context with a Be? revolution. The text blends prophecy and colonial imagery with dramatic claims about rescue and fate.
The article discusses well known Hawaiians in Brooklyn society, mentioning President Dole Abr Thurston and others who have ties to Hawaii and American life. It touches on migration, lifestyle, and the exiled royal lineage, including Katulant and the former kingdom’s fate under Queen Victoria.
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