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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1891
Page
8
Fragmented OCR lists varied local observations and figures for weather and commerce. Mentions names like Schaepf, Geisher, Stifel and Co, and firms such as Tre Vere and Hoge & Sank, with stray references to carpet, garden goods, and street activities.
Department 1,500 Misses and children garments advertised at 30 percent off the lowest state price. Headquarters for cloaks promoted.
Brief notes from Wheeling recount social events and incidents. A tax social, ball at Turan Hall, and a grand ball at Turger Hall mark October activities. Marriages, arrests for disorderly conduct, and a hospital fund raffle headline a busy week. A note on a rare $9000 coin, a two story dwelling project, and local club gatherings fill the page with community life.
Bids for six percent electric light bonds total more than triple the loan amount and include premiums up to two percent. About 250,000 in premium offers signal easy local money market and trust in municipal securities. Twenty one bids at the Exchange Bank, with firms like Seasongood & Co of Cincinnati among bidders as officials consider stone bridge bonds for a longer horizon.
The warehousemen strike showed minimal movement with quiet conditions in the wholesale grocery district. A boy crowd pelted a wagon near the Riverside plant, while a Baer driver reported quitting and urged payment of his fine. Union efforts aimed to shift non union labor, with steubenville drummers possible if supply falls short. Local merchants met to reaffirm stance as Electric Motor Employes Union and Trades Assembly planned follow up actions.
Transfers of real estate left for record yesterday include Matilde Scheufier and Ward Scheufler transferring the south half of lot 14 in Theodore Fink's addition to Wm. J. Lute for 3400 dollars. Additional deeds by Jacob Su and others in Green zone subdivision noted with section references.
A list shows marriage licenses issued to All Gasoff and Katarina Boroniska both natives of Poland aged 45 and to Franklin Marks of Greensburg Pa aged 21 with Alice Fry also of Greensburg aged 21. The issue includes a jokelet and a letter to the editor. Epworth League entertainment at the fine street M Church featured multiple young performers and refreshments. Police Court reported eight cases with fines and suspensions. Julia Marlowe slated to perform at the Opera House next week. An advertisement notes Donnelly and Girard’s Natural Gas light show tomorrow. Irene Kent, young actress, to appear at the Opera House for two nights with a Saturday matinee and a strong supporting company.
The will of Elizabeth J Pannell was offered for record naming a bequest to St Matthew's P B Church and the old Pannell homestead as a chapel or hospital. Personal property is left to multiple named individuals, with executors and divisions specified. The document is dated February 15 1596. Also notes a Mogul engine incident near Bellaire and Bridgeport and a Sunday excursion sale by B&O BR R Co.
The Claguis mother and daughter, arrested after a cloak theft at Stone & Thomas, await a Justice Arkle hearing. Officers found two cashmere shawls in a trunk and tied the pair to earlier thefts from the Ten Cent Store. The mother resisted, sparking a scene on Market street as she was jailed in default of $100 bond. The Bissell case continues with about thirty witnesses summoned for tomorrow.
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