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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1884
Page
3
A sprawling column-essay style piece traverses rich and poor, fashion, and public behavior in a crowded park setting. It juxtaposes wealth and leisure with social expectations, detailing garb, cigars, and observed rituals among men and women, and hints at underlying class tensions and cultural norms of the time.
The report outlines a rush into the Blackfeet Indian Reservation near Fort Bentoo Montana, detailing placer gold discoveries five miles from the Missouri River, the emergence of a mining camp with sluicing and prospecting, and a telegraphic chase of military orders. It notes risks, prior prospectors, and local committee inquiries into the diggings while recounting eyewitness accounts and later telegrams about deployments and safety concerns.
The fragmentary text references a person described as a buckheck and an immigration commission matter. It mentions Fras Doned as a city and a salting fog a wife, with unclear ethnic phrasing and undefined action. The damaged OCR yields minimal coherent facts beyond a legal immigration context.
A garbled travelogue softens into a dramatic bear encounter near Brookvale high in the Rockies. Tourists and guides recall a twelve mile ascent, a bear attack on a horse and a tense night by a campfire as a bear is finally slain. The piece ends with a note on suffrage and aging women.
Fashion notes describe dark velvety fabrics for street wear with trimmed basques and new pale green maidenhair sprigs. Demi toile dress shapes shift to square or V necks with plain or silk and gold galloon bonnets. Light contrasting hues appear, with jackets at times forming paniers and tunics, and padded passementerie embellishments on dresses.
A garbled prose fragment recalls children and adults from a Boston Transcript note and a Brooklyn girl who spots a moon photograph. The piece mixes quirky dialogues about meat, a horse named Fhippine cough, and a playful childhood scene with fractured phrases and stray names from Detroit Free Press material.
A garbled, period-voice transcript describes crowded rooms and tense exchanges as residents debate a controversial house matter. Citizens argue about public perception and personal reputation amid rumors of armed confrontation and political ambitions.
A curious, garbled clipping describes a peculiar New Orleans street scene with a figure carrying a corner in his hand and speculation about a typographical error. The piece hints at a salon of odd characters and mistaken identity, noting a public display that raises questions about propriety.
A Denver story recounts a stableman from an affluent family who, after a shipwreck, loses memory of his past. The man travels from Denver to Chicago and back, unaware of his former life, then gradually recalls his previous wife, children, and an old home, while an eastern state deserter tale and a dramatic railway accident intertwine with his struggles to reunite with his family.
Testimonies from Ohio and Pennsylvania patients describe long hardships with chronic illness and paralysis easing after Peruna use. They report improved walking, digestion, lung and bronchial symptoms, and overall health, urging others to try the remedy.
An advertisement features Dr J E Smith of 1404 Chapline Street promoting medical services in West Virginia. It claims expertise in chronic ailments including dyspepsia, catarrh, polypes of the nose, piles, and cancer of the breast. The piece asserts successful treatment, cites patients and locations like Martins Ferry and Valley Grove, and promises confidential care and self-examination guidance.
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