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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1883
Page
5
A garbled OCR narrative references the West Virginia coking coal field, industrial terms, and scattered names. It implies mining activity, regional supply, and related economic context, weaving in place names and disruptions without coherent events or dates. The text remains fragmentary and largely unintelligible.
The report surveys actors Wilkes Booth and Wallack linked to dramatic circles, with references to Mary Anderson and Macready in performances. It notes family ties to the theatre, mentions venues in New York, and hints at public interest in upcoming shows and associated figures.
A traveler, meeting an elderly man sobbing over his son's harsh whipping, enters a nearby house. The tale shifts between a peach tree bearing plums, a large eleven foot alligator killed by Mr Cloud, and various odd events including a vagrant river incident, a haunted camp, and eccentric anecdotes from Washington to New Orleans, all told in a rambling colonial voice with scattered names and places.
The career of Edward S. Broken is startling with episodes from Gabe Curay’s road to a celebrated barroom reception. He later becomes proprietor of a famed Upwich hotel, fills it with statuary, and finances theatres while avoiding full public credit. He boasts of costly horse pair Lyman and Hell Slower, wins a turf match, and mingles with New York millionaires while his influence grows amid local prejudice.
The fragment outlines funeral notices for Colonel Starr and recounts lurid tales of his gambling empire in St Louis. It describes his poverty and alleged manipulation of victims, with claims of immense wealth fading, and hints at his final years amid illness and questionable exploits.
A fragmentary account recalls Miss Lilian Chamberland of Cleveland as the season’s beauty and a subject of courtly gossip. The piece mentions Prince and prominent ladies, with alleged romantic intrigue surrounding Mrs. Chamberland’s social presence and her reputation among European nobility.
A small party on Austin avenue and Kebeers street watched a stranger react wildly after attempting to play a bugle. Laughter turned to a warlike display as the man shouted wildly and cited Cleopatra's needle while pepper spray or peppered effects caused chaos among the group.
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