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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1891
Page
5
The Wheeling Register outlines subscription options for Daily and Sunday editions, delivery details, and rates. It also lists obituary notices and various notices, including financial and local items, with references to government and business news and a brief scan of local events and opinions.
October events in Rome touch off mass disapproval as French pilgrims anger locals by inscribing anti king slogans at Victor Emmanuel tomb. A Italian bystander strikes the offender, guards eject him, crowds riot with knives and stones. Pope and Harmel seek calm and remorse for the incidents.
The first week of the Jesuit Fathers mission at St Josephs Cathedral concluded last night with women’s evening services attracting a full church. This week evening services will be exclusively for men while morning services remain at the usual hours for all attendees. Masses and sacraments were distributed this week and sermons will be delivered by the Jesuit Fathers.
Mr. D. M. Carey of Paige Carey & Co takes over the Windsor lease after a prior deal with Todd and Miller fell through. The new terms reportedly include furniture value of 12.41 and yearly rent of 4,200 with an option to purchase within the coming year. E B Carney, formerly hotel manager, is slated to assume managerial duties at the Port Henry Club. Todd and Windsor had previously managed the property as patronage rose under their tenure.
Preparations to commence work at Tiltonville on November 1 with changes in management at the Western Sanitary Ware Company. Totin Rowe of East Liverpool sells his interest in Rowe and Mondford pottery to take a stake in the Tiltonville works. Rowe will oversee mixing kilns and workers while Herbert Machin runs the clay mould shop and modeling.
A man recounts a long battle with rheumatism and scrofula starting in childhood. After severe illness and many sores, he credits Hood's Sarsaparilla with restoring health. He states he used the medicine about three years, then returned to work and has been well, claiming no sickness for many years.
Social rounds in Wheeling anticipate a grand Charity Ball to support the new City Hospital. A committee led by B Walker Peterson plans the event at McLure House with an Opera House Orchestra, aiming for a spectacular costume display and broad regional attendance including Steubenville, Martins Ferry, and Parkersburg. The ball, set for Thursday the 20th, will feature refined dress materials from heavy silks to luxurious brocades, with tickets priced at two dollars per couple and three dollars for gentlemen.
The Grand Carnival at Cumberland Maryland on October 6 7 and 8 is planned as a three day festival with battles, pageants, parades and illuminations. The B&O Railroad will run special trains from multiple connections to Cumberland with return validity through October 8.
The wind up ball at St Clairsville drew a large crowd with the Opera House orchestra providing the music in a basement Court House room. Notables from Wheeling attended, including Samuel Welty and H. W. Cummins. Mrs Grace Robinson of Texas visited and several local birthdays and entertainments were noted, alongside minor court reports and a brief Guatemala dispatch about revolutionary events.
Special treasury agent Stone retires after months watching the Canadian border near Lake Superior and Pembina. He says detection and return efforts fail as bands of whites and Canadians aid Chinese migrants. calls for a mounted police force to seal the border. Also reports the schooner Perew wreck off White Fish Point with all aboard, nine crew, bound for Marquette from Cleveland. captain J. Marquey of Bay City.
A fragment recounts a mountain cabin scene where Linda hides a visiting young man while her sister prepares for a date, ending with a tense moment of closeness. The second item notes the Helena Ark lynching of nine African American cotton pickers near Cat Island, detailing arrests, capture, and mob violence.
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