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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1894
Page
12
Practical home tips on keeping clothes bright and dust free. Advice covers dusters from cheese cloth, airing and hanging, cleaning decanters with hot water and paper, shoe polishing with vaseline, reviving old paint, and using sandbags for storage. Emphasizes careful pillowcase repairs, child safety, and color coordination for rooms.
A reader excerpt shows a shopper describing buying essentials for a family and herself. One woman recalls paying seven dollars for lace, leaving with a new idea about purchases. The text captures casual shopping conversations and a clerk’s role in family budgeting.
A miscellany of delicate crafts and domestic recipes outlines decorative photo holders, silk embroidery, and fruit dishes. It mentions apple soups and rings, frying apples in butter, and a pastry tied with pastry knots, plus fashion notes on jewelry trends and social etiquette at balls and introductions.
A quirky column recalls a Kensin neighborhood memorial dinner honoring a late husband. The hostess decorated in black and mauve with two clipped black poodle guests, seating them beside her as the deceased’s pets. The menu featured mauve and black or white dishes with white soup and fish, black cock and mauve confections, ending with black coffee.
A Tennessee talk on ghosts contrasts old fears with science and legend. A frontiersman recounts Indian burial ground myths near the Cumberland river, a cave escape, a deadly siege, and a later land purchase tale tied to a jar and ghostly guardians. Local lore hints at treasure and spirits guarding it.
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