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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1897
Page
4
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A collage of 19th century notes surveys Cuba export talks, a mother fined for beating a child, comet collision predictions, a Philly bicyclist arrest for arson, and legislative dynamics in Pennsylvania. It references Weyler, Reed, Rockefeller, and international politics with scattered anecdotes and curiosities.
The Richmond Blues, part of the Grant parade in the metropolitan district, drawn praise from the New York Herald. The unit’s blue and white uniforms, white plumes, and marching band impressed observers with their discipline and appearance, described as the equals of any company.
The Washington Stir condemns New York papers for proposing moving George Washington's remains from Mount Vernon to New York. It calls the idea absurd and unworthy of debate, arguing Virginians and the nation would oppose any such relocation and that New York should be content with its status.
Reports describe levee cutting attempts along the Mississippi to relieve flood stress. The Virginian notes enforcement will be swift with indisputable proof, with the New Orleans Times-Democrat urging investigation and punishment. Authorities condemn levee sabotage as arson-like, calling for the death penalty for such criminals.
The Right Honorable A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, states that if Britain enters a future war with the continent England may be drawn into hostilities. He clarifies wartime diplomacy and strategic considerations for the United Kingdom.
The article argues that U.S. policy favors non intervention in European affairs and would not ally with Great Britain in a continental war. It contends the unwritten law of avoiding entanglements would prevail even amid calls from a magazine suggesting Britain’s peril if France and Russia united. The stance is that the U.S. would act only to avenge its own wrongs or aid one power against another, not in a general European conflict.
A jumble of items notes an international congress in Amsterdam 101 a Chicago boy’s death linked to a defeat in Cincinnati North Carolina’s moonshiner teen tax dodge denied by Mrs Land Stanford a $1 000 000 life policy claim a borax water cure for red eyes tobacco crops in Connecticut valley praised as clean a 40000 pound smokeless powder purchase government contract potential hung for murder but insanity for entire family a Breckenridge horse trainer with thirty nine children thirty seven of whom are living and a decades apart age gap with his eldest son and current wife
Obscure personals item mentions Oliver George Tf. Osbarne as the tallest member of Philadelphia's police force at six feet nine and a half inches. Also references General Cadorna's death at ninety two, and notes about Mrs Perkins in New York society circles plus a Chicago observer's remark on General Cresobo of Venezuela.
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