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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1886
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR mentions Clyde and Fanny Ser of the Canadian Pueblo, with a reference to a notable person in Canada and a recent tribute or event. The text is garbled, but suggests a cultural or commemorative note involving individuals named Clyde, Fanny Ser, and a Canadian Pueblo connection.
A garbled travel fashion item discusses autumn trends and attire for journeys by air and sea. It notes traveling outfits as practical for campaigns, predicting vogue for sultry, sun ready garments as people plan continental trips and wider travel in the season.
The article catalogs autumn fashion from Harper’s Weekly, detailing hats robes and jackets. It mentions velvet materials semiprecious trims and the fashionable “eschiman's Jacket” with elaborate seams and overcollar designs. It notes colors including rosewood gray and black with silver needlework and bead trimming.
Fashion notes describe high collars dominating new frocks with tighter waists and bold silk and wool blends. Designers predict taller gowns and bold manda lines, while wrapped jackets feature very high collars for dramatic effect.
Loretta Wilkins a devoted dog keeper, gathers thirteen setters and other pets into a traveling caravan. She loads them in her apron and a bag, travels by train, and ends up at a New York police station with twenty nine dogs causing a nocturnal ruckus.
A woman named Loretta escorts thirteen dogs on a string, packing them into a baggage car as trains approach. The dogs provoke fear and noise, with the station master denying admission to the dogs before Loretta secures transit.
A fragmentary piece notes William Shakespeare’s birth 322 years ago and hints at his early life with John Shakespeare. It shifts to New York society, describing opal jewelry trends, rings, and diamonds showcased by leading houses, including butterfly pendants and butterfly motifs amid a surge of opal pieces for fall and winter.
A chaotic blend of fashion details on millinery bows and color clusters, jokes about vanity, and snippets from battlefield reminiscences. The piece shifts to a wartime anecdote about Michigan troops, then to Shakespeare lore and a travelogue tone, ending with notes on feather trims and bonnets.
An assortment of garbled lines mentions sea routes to China, a North Pacific passage, rail and earthquakes near Charles Town, a gale on Lake Superior, a Syracuse to Rochester run, a U S consulate plan in Hazenburg, and an unclear explanation about dynamite and a mythical stock collapse.
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