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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1887
Page
2
A sprawling, disconnected OCR fragment recounts bank robberies, flirtatious social mores, political attacks, sermons, magazine ads, theater notes, and local gossip. It references a guard shooting at a bank, a woman’s social constraints, literary critiques, forthcoming fairs, and railroad schemes, with numerous names and places jumbled throughout.
The Bridge Company should pave the street to Bank Street. city action may be needed for winter access. Church services will proceed as usual. County ordered two stone strings on the National road end. Catholic fair preparations underway. Mr. O H C Haskell plans to move to the city. Riverside Lodge joined Henry Camp Lodge and visited Benwood Lodge. Bennwood hosts praised. Mrs. C A Giffin convalescent. Prof. Reynolds from Cleveland visited. Robert Grant Seavey to take a job in Philipsburg works. Jefferson Brown left for St. Louis. Merchants miss La Belle Glass Works paydays and await rebuilding. City health reported as average for the season. Ella Webster from Flushing visited. C L W depot improvements noted. Joby A Topping left for Rana City. Charles Dintuim and Baw accepted positions at Diamond Plane MUL. Kirkland and West End M E L churches hold services today. Large congregations expected. Wellsburg papers note George Paper Mill and Sack factory shut for machinery alterations. James Montgomery dislocated two fingers while playing ball. J C Ewing of Pittsburgh promoting holiday goods in the city. J H Sole of Boston making pipe organ alterations at the Fiat Presbyterian Church. Cor week includes Circuit Court on the following Monday. C M Leggett of Hopedalo assisting Cannon Ball road ROW efforts. George J Caldwell back from Northwest business trip for Dalzell Bros. & Gilmore’s glass works. Prof. Schmeichel of Bethany College in town. Prof Frank P St Clair returned from Lexington for Hamilton Female College duties. Vacation planned for the west. Independence, Parril Fogg dines with a humorous remark about wings in heaven. Boston Transcript
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