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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1896
Page
4
The Virginian newspaper details carrier delivery areas including Norfolk and several nearby cities with weekly rates. It lists subscription options, payment methods, and advertising rates, noting no responsibility for return of rejected communications or manuscripts.
A collage of brief notes from the era cites a Pittsburg jail, New Jersey heat polls, Weyler pardons, a New York poet pairing McKinley with win thee, and a police hunt for an elusive figure. It also reports Alabama railway men backing Bryan, debates on silver, farm horse feed economics in Kansas, and cosmopolitan quips on Li Hung Chang and Swiss wine.
The Norfolk City Democratic Executive Committee faces pressure to hold ward primaries to select delegates for the District Democratic Convention and the New City Executive Committee. Voters would express preferences for committeemen and delegates, with volunteers offering to serve as judges and clerks and registration books to be provided free of charge. The Landmark supports ward primaries as the best path amid funding concerns, urging timely, broad participation.
The Boston Advertiser is cited discussing how Eastern capital funded Western and Southern development and how the West and South supposedly seek to joint against the East. The piece questions gratitude and notes loans were often on harsh terms, with the East profiting from loans to all regions and pressuring them to accept high interest.
Dispatch from Malmo confirms Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Schotthausen reached Vardo Norway aboard Windward. They left the Fram in 1895 to ice drift and aided the Jackson Farnsworth expedition. Nansen did not reach the pole but came within four degrees of the Pole, the closest success to date.
Reports indicate Mr. Bryan will visit Mr. Sewall at his Alaine home and deliver six speeches. An effort will be made to secure a Lewiston speech during Maine State Fair week on the fair grounds, with additional remarks contemplated by local organizers.
The publican and Democratic State Committees aim to arrange a joint debate between Thomas B. Reed and Bryan. The Pittsburg Post says such an event would draw the state’s largest crowd. The Virginian suggests Bryan should first debate McKinley on the Republican side, which McKinley will not do.
A potential international case looms if Italians lynched in New Orleans are confirmed as Italian nationals. Washington asks Louisiana governor to investigate for a State Department reply to Baron Waya. If the victims are US naturalized citizens, indemnity claims may fail. Baron Waya traveled from Bar Harbor to Washington for briefing.
Lord Chief Justice Russell plans a three month American tour while Baroness von Eber Eschenbach, a renowned novelist and watchmaker, gathers a unique collection of timepieces. Senator Hill of New York comments on women riding bicycles in bloomers. Engagement announced between Miss Eleanor Spurrier Alexander and Andrew Henry Patterson. Sara Orne Jewett funds summer concerts in South Berwick despite municipal cuts. Behram Malabar, Indian reform poet, visits London. he once attacked child marriage as editor of Indian Spark Winter. Captain J A Mellon to retire from commanding a Colorado steamboat and explore the Grand Canyon by boat. Vermont’s Thomas Chritten den monument to be unveiled at Williston on August 19 with Six-Gov. Stewart and Gov. Woodbury attending.
A Boston claiming female baseball club arrested in South Dakota for Sunday law violation. Two ex Calif gold bar robbers re-arrested in Mexico while digging up a $1200 bar. Mules struck by lightning but not killed. Secretary Herbert Saett undecided on christening three new battleships. Irish claims battle over inheritance in Vineland, New Jersey. Women win rights to ride upper decks in omnibuses, a risky ascent on steep ladders remains.
A light verse from the Somerville Journal extols a “summer girl” who appears in public spaces like tennis courts and golf links, then rests in a hammock on moonlit nights. The playful refrain repeats flirtatious imagery as the central theme and tone.
A New York Journal summary notes opponents of free silver argued gold clauses would force mortgages to be paid in gold. Brokers report strength to lend at low rates without gold clauses, challenging fears of gold standard depredation. The piece covers state shifts toward silver, with mentions of Faulkner in New York, Cornish, and West Virginia, plus Ohio and Staunton opinions.
Sam Small offered his services free to the Democratic Committee for September and October. He plans to campaign in sections as finances allow, after returning from a Kansas Nebraska and Linvis tour. He argues the silver wave sentiment is rising and predicts strong Prohibitionist votes for Worm and Sewall, forecasting a Democratic sweep in the middle West.
The piece asserts wage standards show national condition. It claims Japan pays 1 cent to blacksmiths and 2 to carpenters, with higher sums than China. In Indianapolis Parry & Co. is said to pay 24 cents daily for a ten hour shift, and another firm $1.40 per day to married men, totaling about 3.26 weekly. It criticizes the claim that silver would ease hard times.
Rhode Island mills show strong backing for free silver as a business salvation amid currency reform debates. References to Secretary Hoke Smith and political planks mirror national press reactions. An Ethiopian edict against tobacco smoking is noted as a curious royal decree linked to ancestral graves.
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