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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1887
Page
6
A fragmented diary like narrative recounts a tense scene with a man haunted by visions of fear and a lawyer named Mr. Ebbsworth. The piece portrays intense introspection, a looming verdict, and tensions between a patient, a physician, and the justice system.
A long excerpt from a serialized memoir by Walter Beans recounts childhood in Lyme Bay, Smugglers led by Dan Gulliver, the Dancing Polly, and the Chace Mary. The narrator recalls lawless trade, naval war fever, local figures like Pleasance Noel and Joe Jephthah, and a formative romance sparked by a gifted fiddler Campion amid coastal life and a grim glimpse of the era’s dangers.
A garbled OCR fragment hints at a tale of fortune and betting with disjointed names and phrases. The wording is incomplete and lacks clear events, persons, or places to establish a concrete news item or outcome.
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