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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1883
Page
3
Veterans recall a long march and the drum of battle as they share memories of Fort Dowels. A former officer and soldiers discuss daily life, wartime tricks, and the toll of conflict amid vivid recollections.
A fragmented OCR text outlines General Grant amid New York discussion of his fortune and prewar funding. It hints at bonds, subscriptions, and market maneuvers tied to securities, with references to figures like George Gould and details of alleged backroom deals and fund allocations.
A column offering farm and home guidance on judicious tillage coal ashes pruning dairy and garden notes. It discusses value of careful cultivation improving soil across years and notes on pruning fruit trees and selecting dairy cows with a method by M Guepon. It cites the 1877 Pennsylvania governor commission and urges fair trial.
Preservation methods for grapes used by New York State growers with dry open boxes. Agriculture Department circular announces a national convention on animal diseases in Chicago on November Hilland 11th. Virginia peanut crop failure forces rural farmers to improvise. A three year old English thoroughbred appears in the excerpt.
A scrambled mix of horse racing notes, American corn export figures to Havre, and a collection of old fashioned kitchen recipes. Included are minced meat mixings, pumpkin pies, cabbage preservation, celery preparations, and stray anecdotes about field blue seash worms and ink making. The piece reads as a pastiche of domestic notices with sparse coherent facts and many garbled phrases.
A fanciful report recounts a young couple who elope during a bridal tour, marry while a relative is away, travel by river, camp roadside, and eventually return aboard a river trip, their courtship and wedding described in quirky style with a reporter as observer.
Secretary Lathorn, in Chicago with Arthur, tells a tale about self defence trials fueling a fatal heart disease death in a banquet. A quarrel leads to deaths, men lure a bartender, place a corpse in a chair, and escape after convincing the bartender to drink for the dead man. The bartender, terrified, is confronted by an officer and claims the man ruined him.
A reader vents about passengers who drape knees and swing feet into aisles on Olive Street cars. He notes three in ten riders cross their knees and hang feet out. He laments lack of remonstrance and jokes an invention to curb the habit by forcing feet inside the car.
In a touching service at the Lime Kiln Club Brother Gantusr calls Sir Imac Walpole to chair as he reports the death of Uncle Daniel Whitbeck a devout member. The oration recalls his life from enslavement to faith enduring poverty hardship and his steadfast belief in God.
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