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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1896
Page
5
Breezy Portsmouth columns report on local events including travels of Miss Edna Milner, labor changes at the docks, a water quality complaint, social visits, a drunkenness fine, and a court drive. The piece mentions town arrivals, church events, street upkeep, arrests for property damage, a hospital inmate, and upcoming police and civic activities.
Advertises price cuts at Lawrence and Welton with bargains on refrigerators, door and window screens, and large discounts on suits and fabrics. Names Breslauer Anthony Gevy Jacobs A Phillips and Chamberlain remedy testimonial mixed in.
An advertisement touts $1 ambrellas from Charles R. Welton & Co. alongside a testimonial for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy from Wm Kell of Saint Paul Minnesota praising its cold cure. Other clippings note a Bath Maine church member's card game death and a Paris Grand Hotel courtyard display with a whiskey barrel and fowl cage.
Lieutenant Only and Deputy Abbott captured a thieves gang after a string of recent thefts. A watch stolen from Mr. Mahoney’s office was traced to Frankfurt and Bachrack’s pawn shop. William Smith confessed, implicating Eddie Ginter, now jailed. Ginter tied to a till tapping in Norfolk. Three coats and a pair of pants recovered along with the Mahoney watch chain and charm.
In Berkley a horse owned by C. B. White fell into a well at Liberty and Ninth streets yesterday evening but was removed with minor injuries. The street department works on a sewer drainage project between Pearl and Price streets. Two colored men were fined $1 for drunkenness in the mayor's court. W. L. Berkley reports a boy burned by lye. Dr. Morfan treated him. Town Council met to discuss bond issues. William Tiley and wife returned from Pennsylvania mountains. Norfolk and Southern ran a staff excursion to Ocean View. Armstrong Memorial Church ladies offer cake and cream at Mrs Parks on Berkley Avenue tonight. Public invited.
An Oregon saloon keeper faces revocation amid a circulating petition while an anecdote recalls a man missing a train, arriving by Wis Wheel to cheer a bride. The clipped items include Paris police clubs, Whistler defences, and fashion notes with Harlem-style period flavor, ending with cotton export value from New Orleans.
Raleigh August 19 Special dispatch reports a shift in North Carolina politics as the Republican Central Campaign Committee dissolves. Rumors swirl that the American Tobacco Trust may spend $200,000 to back Guthrie, while Populists and Republicans jockey over Dockery’s nomination and party endorsements.
Mrs Jennie Beals died at the residence of Mr Dozier on Dover Street in Elizabeth City North Carolina on August seventeenth or nineteenth in the special report. Her father, who had been senior the day before, retired at 1130 p m reportedly.
The remains of Aylmer Webb were interred Saturday morning in a service conducted by Roy K. Roxe with appropriate remarks. Several locals, including Lance Alston and Joseph Abe Mahon, had returned from brief trips, and others were noted as visiting or ill. The town church and neighbors were mentioned as part of the day’s events amid a period of unsettled weather.
A brief local note from Helter Aug 1 reports a forthcoming wedding in Centreville Leeds town. The Virginian mentions community interest and a newspaper feature in our city window showcasing the couple’s upcoming ceremony.
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