Local notices and advertisements from Norfolk area items
Local items note visits by Mrs. L. C. Garnett and Mrs. Burke Garnett to Norfolk, Mrs. Bernard Graves visiting Capt. John Crisgill, and Rev. J. A. Hopkins declining church calls. U. D. C. chapter sent a box to the Confederate Home. Local ads promote sales, a new grocery ad, and a hardware and general store presence. Other notes reference farm and business inquiries in Mathews and Gloucester counties, plus a want ad and oil product mention.
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Bernard Graves
Gloucester
Questions on life and time fill editor’s plea from 1908 letter
Medgins Virginia November 30 1908 editor asks readers for help answering tough questions from the Children’s Encyclopedia while reporting on Mathews County school funds and future term lengths. Milker urges longer terms and better schoolyards to ease long walks for children.
Sears Williams Below Cost Cloaks and Dress Goods Sale
The firm Sears Williams offers Ladies Misses and Children's Cloaks Dress Goods below cost to clear space for Xmas novelties. Also, Success Magazine seeks a Mathews man to manage expiring subscriptions and gain new business with effective methods. Permanent role, $1.50 daily plus commission, apply Peacock Room 102, Success Magazine Blog, New York.
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Sears & Williams
Uwatil Amas
Success Magazine
Mathews
RKC
Peacock
New York
Personal Appeal for Foley's Honey and Tar Remedy
A personal appeal urges readers to choose Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs colds and lung trouble over unknown preparations. The ad claims forty years of cures and notes it costs no more, sold by all druggists.
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Foley
Lane Diggs Camp C. V. schedules meeting and notes donation
A full Lane Diggs Camp C. V. meeting is set for Saturday December 12 at 2 PM. Acknowledgement is made of a five dollar donation toward the monument fund from R. W. Marchant of Baltimore Maryland, per Com. A H. Williams.
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Lane Diggs Camp C. V
R. W. Marchant
Baltimore
A. H. Williams
Lane Diggs Camp
Where Sallits Flew A Fayette Civil War Veteran Endorses Bitters
David Parker of Fayette New York, a Civil War veteran who lost a foot at Gettysburg, praises Electric Bitters stating they are worth more than five hundred dollars after failings of doctors and other tonics. He credits Nicettie Bitters with curing his stomach trouble and notes lasting relief from the tonic.
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David Parker
Fayette, N. Y
Gettysburg
Xmas Eve in Mathews County and Local Happenings
Susan the children of St Pauls await a Xmas tree while Old Kris Kringle marks bad children. Steamer Maple officer Ran Miles injured by a pea sized fragment, eye destroyed, awaiting an artificial eye. Mrs Columbus Barnum dies after long illness, funeral at St Pauls. Masquerade fun disrupted by burnt cork attire. Glee Club meeting at Diggs home. Mrs C L Brooks joins husband in Mathews. Sunday school preparing for Xmas entertainment at Satem Church.
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Ran Miles
Marine Department of
Columbus Barnum
J. R. Laughton
St. Paul's Church
Gwynns Island Wedding Bells Nearing Amid Sickness
The local note reports Capt Callis remains ill and Christmas festivities are anticipated. Sickness among children rises but no deaths reported. Rev L H Suddith delivered a fine sermon on wicked living from Job 17. Rev John L Pribble spoke impressively on Kings from 11 Kings 19:16, with familiar presence welcomed back.
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John L. Pribble
Pribble
HUDGINS families share Thanksgiving week visits
Mr Floyd Forrest of Mathews spent from Saturday till Tuesday with Andrew Davis. Misses Erle Forrest and Ethel Shafer visited Miss Etta Davis during Thanksgiving week. Mrs Allie Davis and her daughters Mary and Marion of Smiths Island visited Moses Atherton. Howard Jarvis with his mother Nannie Jarvis traveled to Portsmouth to attend business college. Capt and Mrs L Marchant and son Theodore who spent Thanksgiving with Luther Foster and J D Marchant of Norfolk returned home. Capt James Williams keeper on Hogg Island Light Station opened a few days with family.
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Floyd Forrest
Mathews
Andrew Davis
Erle Forrest
Ethel Shafer
Etta Davis
Allie Davis
Mary and
Marion
Smiths Island
Mrs
Moses Atherton
Howard Jarvis
Nannie Jarvis
Jett
Portsmouth
Business College
James Williams
Hogg Island
Early 1900s Virginia and national political notes and disasters
Lynchburg votes down liquor sales by a 95 majority in a city election. Champ Clark chosen as minority leader in the U S House after Williams resigns. Norfolk County Circuit removes five Ocean View police amid bribery findings. Venezuela blocks Castro landing until he apologizes to France over Taigny incident. Port au Prince names General Simon president after Nerd Alexis flees with French protection. Sixteenth Congress convenes with Cannon presiding. sorrow resolution for Senator Allison approved. Tenn Pine Bluff dyke failure floods six structures. old railway iron barges scuttled to check current. Massachusetts delegates gift a silver punch bowl to New Bern chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy. Malvern Hill near Richmond, now Wm Hail owner, burned. historic relics lost. Lafayette and Civil War generals used it as headquarters.
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Malvern Hill
Richmond
Wm. H. Hail
New York
Cockes
Nelsons
Lafayette
Private Farm Stock and Household Sale by Stephen Adams
An advertisement offers a private sale on the farm until January 1st including stock such as horses cows and other farm animals, plus one Estey organ a refrigerator and various household furniture and stoves with a 12-5off discount. Stephen Adams signs the notice.
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Stephen Adams
Diary offer from D Swift & Co for 1908 publication
Readers can obtain a 66 page diary for 1908 by sending postage to D Swift & Co Patent Lawyers Washington DC. Diary valued at 5 cents includes 20 pages of information on 1908 crop production by state and brief points on everyday and patent laws plus business forms and state populations.
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D. Swift & Co
Washington, D. C
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