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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1893
Page
11
A long string of social items, weddings, parties, and entertainments from a South Side community. Mentions include engagements and marriages in Martins Ferry, Wheeling, Moundsville, and nearby towns. receptions, concerts by Madame Rolla and local bands. dances, theatre, and club events. birthdays and anniversaries. carious hostesses and guests. civic and church notices scattered through the fragment.
A detailed account describes a Japanese tea gathering hosted in a Kyoto style. Guests remove shoes, admire lacquered utensils, and observe a precise ritual culminating in the preparation and tasting of matcha. The host guides guests through centuries old customs with formal bowing and careful sequence of steps. A later brief dispatch reports a Dover to Wyoming pond drowning with a missing cause.
A fragment from a telegraphic paper notes a daily sad Sunday Register publishing rate of 15 cents per week. Delivery area includes the city and surrounding suburbs.
Kapila Transit for N New Year September 9 details a syndicate willing to invest 45 million dollars into an underground railway system for New York with plans for a Jersey City to Brooklyn tunnel and a Battery shaft. Total system expenditure could reach 100 million dollars. World’s Fair receipts for Chicago report total income 21.14 million with major items including stock sales and gate receipts. Brazilian incident near Rio Janeiro reports Italian consul shot at night aboard a warship boat. Brazilian officer dismissed and indemnity paid. West Virginia postmasters appointed in four counties including Logan and Upshur districts.
The Apactat Telegram to the Reglater notes that Mrs Iss Kinderman died yesterday evening at the residence of Hon. John W. Mason near Palatine from stomach and lung trouble. She was taken to Morgantown today for burial. The deceased was a niece of Mrs. Mason.
The excerpt collects varied items from poverty in London to a giant frog in Missouri, a gold ore find near Grant's Pass, and coal reserves, plus cigars, a Portuguese Boston colony, and remarks on women in industry and a Chinese scandal trade.
The B and C HR K Co announces daily sailing excursion tickets to the Pittsbere Expo from September 6 to October 21. Tickets cost 2.90 and include admission. They are valid for return within three days from sale day, with Friday tickets valid for the following Monday return.
The B B U Co schedules a Wheeling to Chicago daylight excursion with return ticket valid for two days. Tickets go on sale September 13 at Wheeling departure 6 50 AM and World’s Fair ground arrival, price set at $1.00. Tickets usable only on sale day.
Local business lingers as plans for a busy winter and spring grow. A.G. Cordell recovers from stomach trouble and hopes to return next week. Hope Society maps winter activities while F. M. Bowers store eyes a reopening. School opens with strong attendance and a busy social scene continues with baseball at Riverside. Obituary notes Jacob Long’s death casting gloom, funeral to be held afternoon. Government and railroad news includes engineers’ moves, Miss Cora Edwards hosting friends, and Davin’s bid for post office at McMechen.
Driggs of Bridgeport visited, Supt Shields toured with County Surveyor on business. Waddle family mourns death at home near Lewis Mills. J A Patterson left for the World’s Fair. Burglary attempt on Rev Balpt’s home thwarted by a light. Campbell family from Chariton visiting relatives. Missionary Society marks 36th anniversary with Mrs Dr Young attending. Mrs Troll dies at daughter’s residence. Miss Mitchell heads to Pittsburgh for schooling. Miss Close returns from Baltimore after months with grandmother. Georgia Alexander from Alliance guests in town. Sutton from St Clairsville milinery travels to Pittsburg for fair. Grant McElfresh of Caldwell visits. Rt M Collins from Abrioeville spends Sunday with mother. State Labor Commissioner Lewis of Columbus in town on business.
A damaged OCR passage describes catarrhal bronchitis affecting the mucous membranes of the throat eyes nose and chest. It outlines a case of Andrew Meath treated by Drappeleng Bell and Dayle, noting distressing coughing and digestive signs and claiming a cure by removing the cause, with unclear procedural details and archaic terminology.
A reader recounts being bedridden after working in the rain with chest pain back pain and coughing. The note lists doctors Copeland Melt and Davis in Wheeling West Virginia offering cures for eye throat dyspepsia nervous conditions and other ailments at 709 pm and 11 4 Buopards back.
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