Turbulent city notes and political pressure mounted
A chaotic clipping from Wheeling era coverage details political pressure over a $100,000 debt payment to the Wheeling Bridge and Terminal Company, urging prompt settlement to avoid lawsuits and protect city growth. It discusses rail corridors, economic benefits of additional lines, and calls for board unity against rival interests while noting national news and social commentary.
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Jacop Tna
Wheeling Bridge and Terminal Company
Board of
Com ‘Missioners
Jose
Connellsville
Seras
Consellaville
Thie
Pitteburg
Wheeling
Malin Street
Kot
Athin
Board of Commissioners
Engagisa
Local Notes From Tiltonville Area News
A roundup of community updates includes Mrs. Morris Cope and family planning a move to Chattanooga via Georgia, Rev. Cope soon joining them in Bridgeport. Various residents travel, visit, or relocate within Steubenville, Martin's Ferry, Wheeling Island, Reed's Mills, and nearby towns. a death notice for Mrs. Alexander Swann is noted. local talk mentions fair week travel, old sayings about money, and a quack cure anecdote ending with Sulphur Bitters as a remedy.
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Steubenville
Michigan
Wm. Conaway
Oliver
Shaeffer Lyon
Belle Garden
Martin's Ferry
Bowers
Mt. Pleasant
Blanche Cox
Wheeler Rose
Matthew Darrah
Towy
Reed’s Mills
Smithfield
Aditor Journal
Arid Courter
River Notes and Steamship Changes at Manchester Docks
Water depth at midnight showed about Sy feet in the channel and receding. The Matt F P. Alien arrived from Pittsburg to take on freight from the Bedford and Ben Hur while Frank J. Kelley returns from a southern trip a married man. The B and O offers round trip fares to the Wiremen's Tournament at Atlantic City from September 25 to October 2 with return by October 6, open to the public and not just firemen, plus fast express trains via Washington and Pullman service. Excursion rates to St Louis for Sovereign Lodge meeting dates are also announced.
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Manchester
Pittsburg
Bedford
Ben Hur
Frank J. Kelley
Davis Island Dam
Atlantic City
Mt. i
Fremen
Hines
Ohio River
Washington
Dear People and City Guests Return Weathered Notices
A long column lists numerous travelers visitors and locals staying at Wellsburg area hotels the Behler Stamm and McLure including many from Parkersburg Columbus Philadelphia Chicago Mannington and New Martinsville. It notes arrivals departures visits and social rounds with several mentions of stores mansions and a furniture or theatre company presence. The piece reads as a social calendar digest of the town.
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Will Marshs
Michigan
H.G. Clarke
Kirkwood
Lena Schaub
Detroit
Mich
Louis Whit
Niagara Falls
Theo. Wray
Hinton
W. Va
John W. Burchinal
Moundsville
S. O. Hammett
Eureka
W.va
Behler
W. H. Clark
Guyandotte
S. O. McCarty
Bethany
McLure
M. B. Mullins
Logan C. Hy
J. Rumbaugh
Mannington
B.F. F
Littleton
Bebler
J.C. Morrison
Sistersville
E.B. Taylor
Parkersburg
J. P. Sloterbeck
James L. Maxton
Long Beach
Stamm
Rebecca Bauer
East End
Wellsburg
R. Rogers
Dora Bartollos
South Side
M. Crosby
Wm. Cunningham
Newark
George N.gray
Mage’s Landing” Company
Woman and five children homeless after stable torn down
Mrs Samuel Robinson colored widow of Samuel Robinson and her five children have endured two months of exposure and hunger moving through a lean-to and open air after rent arrears forced them from a house. Police, then Commissioner McGregor, coordinated relief and a possible housing solution.
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Samuel Robinson
Chapline Street
Tenth
See Hood
Chilgren
Porter
Robinson
McGregor
Maud Granger in Gabriel at the Opera
Maud Granger stars in her new play Gabriel at the Opera on Thursday evening promising a fresh dramatic experience. Also, Hermann the prestidigitateur arrives at the Opera House next Monday with Mme Herrmann Abdul Khan and a suite of new tricks and illusions.
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Maud Granger
Gabriel
Opera
Aekemann
Dermann
Mme. Herrmann
Abdul Khan
Herrmann
WHAT NEXT MISS POTTER Divorced Two Days Ago Held to Marry
Miss Gertrude Whiting Potter daughter of O W Potter the Steel millionaire president of the Mlinoi Company married Julius Clarke Daniels of New York City in a private ceremony at her Virginia apartment house shortly after noon. Daniels is 28 son of H Daniels general passenger of are and ticket agent of the New York Central Railroad. Potter, twenty, had a divorce two days earlier from F Lee Rust son of Wm Rust lumber magnate of Eau Claire Wisconsin.
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Crrcaco
Gertrude Whiting Potter
O. W. Potter
Is Steel
Mlinoi Company
Cnts
Virginia
Julius Clarke Daniels
New York City
H. Daniels
Are
New York Central Railroad
Miss Potter
F. Lee Rust
Wm. Rust
Maiionaire
Eau Claire
Wis
Explosion at Carnegie steel mill fatally burns worker
A blast at 2 PM in the Homestead mill of Carnegie Phipps & Co. hurled molten steel over four men. James McGuire is fatally burned, while William McCrackie Edward Williams and Jacob Dunn suffer severe burns but are not believed to be fatally injured.
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Walnorr Aston
Jeux Jacos
England
Prrrsners
Homestead
Carnegie, Phipps & Co
James McGuire
William McCrackie
Edward Williams
Jacob Dunn
McGuire
Assassination Report Linked to Honduran President
A cable from Bo ots De Toro, Colombia via Canonsburg reports wild rumors of President Bogran in Honduras being assassinated in his private office by a Burillas party member who was granted an audience to present a petition. Separately, a Baltimore line terminal move and circus car escape are noted in unrelated dispatches.
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Bogran
Honduras
Bariling Party
The
Herald
Boots de Toro
Columbia
Wilford
Baltimore
Bom Island
Hondurian
Mosquito
Ey de Elat
Terucipaipa
Bogram
Winter Dress and Wraps Sell Fast in Daily Choices
Don’t delay buying a new Winter Dress or wraps as daily styles are sold that cannot be duplicated.
Young New York society woman joins Carleton Opera
Miss Minnie Bradford Washburn, a handsome New York society woman, has joined the Carleton Opera Company chorus. She arrived from Atlantic City and will debut in Indigo, with much interest in Baltimore and among her social circle here. Her father, Lansing C. Washburn, once a Townsend & Washburn partner, faced financial ruin after Baring Bros. setback and now works for Thompson-Houston Electric.
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New York
Carleton Opera Company
Baltivore
Carleton Operas Company
Indigo
Minnie Bradford Washburn
Miss Washburn
West One Hundred and Third Street
Lansing C. Washburn
Wall Street
Frm
Townsend & Washburn
J. P. Townsend
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Baring Bros
Washburn
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Vas. S. Taney
Ge General
Erie
Turpinsburg
Miss Porres
Chicago
Engilah
Iya
Jong Fen
Republic
Cue Eareotanna
Jory T. Bite
Justine
Lie Offorte
Crash Thosalve C
Wakiba
Stents
Freker
Welt Down
Newt Wool
Mywvie Waaniuin
Will Apepear
Combe Opera
Talvinors
Duppard Tee Tathors
Maka
Dotaview Brena
Tenniasser
Kentucky
Tima
Waurpie
Hig & Sous
Avoye Capyon
Ponuen
Promisa
Audi
Udy
Cimarron Valley
Oklahoma Territory
Fannens
Nebraska
Ngs
Ward McAllister
G—t
M—T Committee
P. Flower
Vera Ava
Tiltonville
Bor
Ohio
Hornet
Mark Winnett
St. Louis
Baltimore and Ohio Railrosd Company
Anon
Will Hammett
Thomas Prince
Frank P. Hall
Fifteenth Street
Washington, Pa
M. G. Holmes
W. L. Dilson
Clarksburg
J.N. Wyatt
W.T. Sidell
New Martinsville
Wm. Clisham
City
Philadelphia
W. C. Handlan
Washington, D. C
May Rose
But Kemp
Letitia Conner
Lizalo Caldwell
South Chapline Street
Lexington
John L. Prank
May Frank
Louis Greiner
North Main Street
R. Greiner
Blaine, O
Blaina
North End
J.B. McLain
Nowemb
Louis Offmannh
Emma Myers
Zanesville
North Front Street
Island
Fred Seymour
Rebecca Banes
Sixteenth Street
Dora Bartodas
Wellabung
H. T. Perry
Cincinnati
Mc Lure
Jennie Wheat
Walter Wheat
Lizzie Fox
Maggie Maloney
Cleveland
Anna Backman
Joseph Rhodes
Warner
Emsheimer
George Manderback
Little Nugget
Emma McNash
Lizzie Farrell
Mt. Savage
Ind
Garrige
Bes
W. D. Cabell
Big Father
Robinson's Circus
Wasnixotos
Jon Robinson
Canonsburg
Ines W
GEO. E. Stifel & CO
Tangare
Harper's Bazar
Dublin
Jove
Cynicus
Scribler
Brooklyn
St. Peter
Mme. Patti
Thomas Kalley Aldrich
London
Mapleson
Princess of Wales
Arthur Sullivan
Tom Ochiltres
Doncaster
Hawley Smart
Crimea
Archdeacon Parrar
John Boyle O'Reilly
Duke of Nassau
Hell
Europe
Anton Rubinstein
Moses
Herman Oelrichs
California
Jonny W. Mackay
Will Gs
Je Gasaki
Japan
Sen
Musset
Opera House
Sara Might
C. A. House
Maude Granger
Ig Abrelle
At & Pants
Weno
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