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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1888
Page
4
The text appears as garbled OCR from Wheeling Register content. It mentions politics in West Virginia, a millionaire funeral, Canadian annexation, and various scattered names. It reads like a collage of editorials, notices, and anecdotes with unclear dates or events.
Fraternal gossip covers Basco Sohle Baighloat Pythian groups. talks of secretaries sending news by Friday. Includes history of orders such as the Garter and Legion of Honor, Masonry notes, and details on Odd Fellows temple in Boston along with ceremonies and leadership.
An 19th century Jacksonville notice salutes the Knights of Pythias and Knights and Ladies of Honor for their care of the sick during an epidemic. It praises Grand Chancellor M. M. Bel and local leaders, notes nightly visits and burials with full honors, and outlines the charitable reach of benevolent orders with mints of relief, death benefits, and state-wide memberships.
The report lists state totals and gains for August with Delaware at 5,519 and Nebraska 5,041 for different categories, notes Massachusetts as the largest gain and Ohio as the greatest loss, cites total beneficiary payments of 262,100.75 and 254,001.50 paid to deceased families, and mentions Kentucky and Texas with various figures.
In St Louis a sensational domestic saga unfolds as Jersey Johnsons ex wife marries Dr Alexander who then faces forgery and later divorce. Johnson shoots his wife crippling her, then kills himself. Alexander later remarries Johnsons former wife and receives a sizable inheritance dispute follows.
A Boston area widow, Mrs. Meller, reportedly visits the tomb daily from morning to night after her husband’s funeral. Strange acts unfold, including a chi llled bouquet and a spectral exchange, with a hired caretaker attending the tomb at 1 am. The piece also notes political dispatches from Washington and ongoing boxing match chatter in November.
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