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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1895
Page
4
A garbled OCR passage references names, dates, and places in a scattered historical notes style. Despite the corruption, it mentions various individuals and events, hinting at a local column with miscellaneous items and references to places like banks and dates, rendered in an old newspaper voice.
Local prospects revive a proposed Wheelman Coanellaville Railroad with routes surveyed from Wheeling creeks to Waynesburg and Marshall County. Officials anticipate a call for director meetings and a capital drive, detailing route segments, contributing regions, and anticipated hurdles to secure accessary funds for construction and equipment.
The article weighs several route options for a new railroad into Wheeling, estimating distances from Elm Grove and Monongalia County to Connellsville and Uniontown. It discusses Eastern terminus ideas, costs, needed tunnels and bridges, and the impact on coal and coke movement, ending by asking if the road is a go.
An editorial praises continued Friday literary work to prepare pupils for examinations. It argues free text books would equalize access, curb street life, and improve moral and intellectual development. The piece notes new readers and music programs, plus Longfellow Literary Society reports, and ends with a notice inviting local agents for Empire Knights of Better in Wheeling.
A testimonial letter from Patrick Sullivan of St Louis praises Munyon remedies for rheumatism and kidney disease. The ad promotes a free health guide and 26 cent bottles, with assurances of harmless, prompt cures and separate specifics for each disease. It invites readers to write Prof Munyon in Philadelphia for free medical advice.
Assets scarce at Parker wholesale outfit as attach ment issued by Justice Fitzpatrick to recover 40 from six cases of eggs sold to H E Bachman. Parker absent, wife and a colored boy present. store room empty, chairs removed. latto Latto correspondence indicates shipments from Quaker City to Wheeling. Local notices and ads fill the page as investigators seek the missing debtor.
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