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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1883
Page
4
The document party discusses Sundog Resistec THE REGISTHE and compares its wide circulation to regional papers in Virginia and Foster’s Ubio. It notes advertising advantages and lines about production, distribution, and market reach amid fluctuating reader engagement.
The piece describes how Chinese immigrants supposedly bound for America use certificates from Hong Kong or Canton to claim tradesman status. It argues that such certificates let arrivals avoid interference, as arrangements allegedly place emigrant costs on Chinese capitalists. It notes these migrants rarely work in regular labor and may run Chineseowned merchandises under similar schemes.
The piece argues that Chinese traders could dominate commerce, supplying a wide range of goods and affecting relations between San Francisco and China. It suggests Pacific Railroad and Pacific Mail interests may back such trade channels and face losses if Chinese emigration ends entirely.
A crowded Marjucketa Indiana Methodist church debated temperance and politics at an onion prohibition gathering. Pastor A W Mc Carroll faced the deacons as factions clashed over church support for a local party, with fiery exchange and calls for restraint.
The article recounts two divorce cases settled on scriptural grounds and a rapid remarriage in a Western city between the divorced actor and a former spouse. A minister who officiated is condemned for morality breach, while Frank Boxes, another actor, faces a public matrimonial dispute with a newlywed actress daughter of SixGate. The scandal spills into stage life, with continued gossip about actors' private lives and the perils of publicity.
A reader voice discusses the Edmunds Act and polygamous Mormon influence in Utah and nationally. It argues polygamy persists, recruiting from abroad fuels the issue, and calls for stronger federal action to curb the practice and its political impact. It questions the West’s emigration dynamics and the need for decisive legislation.
A long list of literary notices from Mary Agnes Tincker to George Fuller and Matthew Arnold, plus a detailed historic survey of the Vatican Library. It covers new novels and periodical contributions, engravings, and the library’s rich manuscript acquisitions from dents of Pomponius, Benedictine monasteries, Urbino, and Catherine the Great era.
The text catalogues vast manuscript holdings at the Vatican Library including Codex Vaticanus and other relics from the fourth to tenth centuries, detailing Greek, Latin, and Oriental manuscripts and notable historical items. It also narrates a geology anecdote where oil wells swapped production after water pumping ceased, causing a temporary profit shift.
Disjointed OCR notes describe Cyclones and West connections, gendered social themes, and scattershot anecdotes. References to people like Philadelpha Call and Culcago Raw appear amid fragmented opinions on women, manners, and market prompts.
A young Western girl leaves farming life to pursue art in New York. She works as a courier and model while studying, borrows funds for tuition, travels to Europe, and gains recognition for her sketches. The tale follows ambition, struggle, and a dramatic turn with a rumored affair and eventual status as a respected painter.
The account recalls early oil history with Deen mo ow wt Well pean and the first company to develop the oil territory. It notes a winter strike by Jess Heydrick, markets at Pittsburgh, and river transport on the Allegheny. It describes a flooded flow and price shifts from 17 to 8 cents a barrel, plus a curious 1863 tale of a water well that produced nothing until a neighbor hit upon an adjoining lease.
An unassigned offer invites buyers to a farm about miles east of St Marrville with a single tenant house and outbuildings. The property features well and water, fruit trees, and extensive cultivated land for a likely lucrative harvest, plus a nearby site with a trustee sale notice and historic legal proceedings involving multiple parties.
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