Portsmou th News Card Footnotes Gas Factory Talk Fortunes Paid
Portsmouth news notes list talk of a gas works establishment probable and notes soldiers to receive pay while detailing local items. It mentions illnesses and personal mentions, school elections, street repairs, ferry schedules, theft, weather effects, police actions, church events, and various city matters with names and places across Norfolk and Portsmouth.
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Hugiat
Norfolk
Virgin Au
Portsmouth News
Tun Noi Rolk
Street Railroad
GG. Wyit. McDuoult
Jobo Li. Watson
Castoria jingle and sale items from early port town ad
An OCR fragment markets Castoria for children amid a jumble of ads and notices. It touts Castoria for ailments, proclaims a funeral director, lists an assortment of clothing items from Levy & Jacobs at 00 High Street, promotes health travel to Port Norfolk, mentions the Southern Railway, and advertises tonics and dyspepsia remedies with deceptive old marketing phrasing and a note on a patent medicine bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avwsta
Levy & Jacobs
Tovy & Jacops
Local Petersburg items include robbery and disappearances
The Petersburg area reports a store robbed of twenty Colombian half dollars, two colored youths missing since last Wednesday, a Mary Eldridge out on two warrants for assault and bicycle interference, a shoe factory capital plea from Louisville to attract investment, and local notices on building counts, illness returns, and two prominent deaths. Brown's Iron Bitters suggested for malaria and indigestion.
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Petersuuni
Anguet
Messre
Chappell
Lulinas
Porteryillo Otreety
Robert Brows
Detersburg
Asslum
Pegro
Mary Eldridge
P. +. Maher
Louisville
Stille
Whiel
Chamber of Commerc
Revouus
James Li. Coldwell
Petersburg
Mary D. McKenney Bag
Virginia Beach
Johnny Goodwyn
Dinwiddie County
Wm. 3. Simpson
Alaska Coal Riches Prompt Hopeful Prospects
Excerpts from the New York Sun report on coal in Alaska describe a major vein five feet thick exposed at low tide on the east side of Cook Inlet. Further veins lie nearby, with shoreward extensions likely. Miners stake claims, while steamship service notes coal quality surpassing certain rivals and potential for rapid profitability.
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Alaskia
Cook's Inlet
Conaldeaal
Steimship
Chehalis
Joneau
Cook
Iidet
Diya
New York Sun
Doctor Herz claims vast telegraphy invention on deathbed
In Bournemouth England Dr Cornelia Herz, dying with anxiety and pain, declares an invention to patent and develop. He says the device would transmit over 1,000 words via long submarine cables in the time now needed for 20 and allow 60 words at a penny each. He cites European labs and Edison’s nephew among researchers and envisions news royalties and multiplex telephony.
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Cornelia Herz
Bournemouth
England
Imbia
France
Edison
New York
Reindeer Mail Service In Alaska Government Plan
The United States government plans a long reindeer route from southern Alaska to Onuluska linking by steamers to San Francisco. The effort will employ many experienced men from Lapland to tame the animals and teach natives, reaching a 1500 mile stretch along the Yukon region previously accessible only by Indians and dog teams.
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United States
Alaska
Lapland
Onuluska
San Francisco
Yukon River
Yukon
New York
How to Tell Pure Fabrics and Other Everyday Tips
A compendium of home remedies and frugal advice includes a test for silk or wool purity using muriatic acid and alum, guidance on cleaning mattresses and replacing ticking, a corkscrew removal trick with a knife, and brief notes on a rising suicide epidemic in Europe. The items reflect early 20th century domestic hacks, social curiosities, and sensational brief reports.
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Germany
Bloomer Dances and Skirted Chorus Stir Theatral Plans
The Chicago Post reports a manager and treasurer debating sensational burlesque ideas to shock the crowd. After jokes about bloomer weddings and odd stagings, the plan shifts to dressing the chorus in skirts as the proposed novelty.
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Jackson Park
Australia
New York
George
Bhay
Chicago Post
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Vavy
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H. Whistler
Baltimore
C. G. Luler
Park View
Funsten
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Board of Health
Michael Welah
St. Paul'’s Catholic Church
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L. C
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Joseph Hobday
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Wight
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IL Reese
Porlemouth
Chestnut Street
John Spinele
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Iust
Omay
Water Committee
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Herr Weeting
Old Wood
Fy Culpepper
North Carolina Railroad
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Krinson
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Amerwan
Tome
Tie
Girmand
Port Norfolk
Mulvey
Censer Hargroves
North Carolina Line
Arragut Wort GG
A. Hy
Dudot
Michael Welsh
Thomas J. Barlow
North Peeights
Fieh
Crawford
Alfred Couover
Sloboken
N. J
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Joseph Conover
Norfolk County
Poole Kuter
Lichmund
Richwoods
Jime
Brady
Thay
Lynchburg
Richmond
Saasou
Bin
Porchasers
Portsmouth
L. G. Brincon
L. Davie
Lake Kilby
al. John A. Cold
H. KY. Butt
Piro
George W. Gilbert
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Johnson
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G, i, Welton & Co
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Castoria
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Castor
Wien
Mies
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Southern Railway
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Parris
Oxford
TS Inon
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COAL
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Reindeer Mail Service
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Marcy
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Eye
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CPM
ADWAR
Parmachot Posy
Bugs
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Atoll
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Mulyvogy
Jon
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F.C. Brooks CO
Sloroth
John T. Watson
Turtemouth
Gray G. Holladay
Middle Street
C. W. Nudgins & Co
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Hudson
Fordhamboighia
Webb Academy
Fordham Heights
Academy
Waverly
W. N. White
GUN and Sporting House
High Street
W.C. Nash
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