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THE WHEELING REGISTER,
DAILY. SUNDAY. WEEKLY.
LARGEST CIRCULATION ALL EDITIONS.
WEST VIRGINIA PRINTING COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.

BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS 
AND BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURERS.
NOS. 1225 & 1227 MARKET STREET. 

THE REGISTER'S HOE PERFECTING PRESS
CAPACITY, 24,000 6-PAGE AND 12,000 12-PAGE PAPERS PER HOUR.

WHEELING, W. Va., Sept 12 1892
3.30 a.m. 

Dear Effie:
The other day Mrs Janeen B Taney, alias Aunt Em, told me at the (my) breakfast table that she had received a letter from you in which was a request that I write to my new sister. I'm complying, but fa' Gawd, honey, I don't know what to say, or write, or think, or even conjecture, except that I am still the silent majority and still love you and your husband more than any other two people on earth - not excepting my Irish blonde, because she, at present, is only one - and between you and me, or the dead, she is not the myth you appear to think she is.
- by several honest pounds avoirdupois-