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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1897
Page
6
Unusual savings entice shoppers with a wide stock of Books Toys Dolls Silver Novelties Leather Gifts and more. Unattended children are urged to visit while adults compare prices on Indian Baskets Dress Goods Handkerchiefs Hosiery and Gloves noted as especially affordable this season.
A garbled OCR fragment lists authors and works including Lewis Carroll Oliver Wendell Holmes Thomas De Quincey and Lord Lytton. It mentions magazines or books such as Abbe Constantin The Breakfast Table and Dickens stories, with scattered names like Ruskin and Bacon, but no coherent event.
A veteran diver Thomas Goodenow, sixty to seventy, recalls a close shave while exploring a giant seven foot oyster shell in the Indian Ocean. A heavy iron bar got trapped. the shell shut, the limb freed, leaving him shaken but unhurt. He recounts encounters with Indian pearl divers and a lurking shark as he describes past sunken wrecks and coins found near Key West and possible treasure.
A Canhowh Virginia merchant testifies of overcoming consumption after trials with many remedies. He credits two bottles of Dr Kings New Discovery for his recovery after years of coughing and sleepless nights. He promotes the medicine for coughs colds and consumption and notes a free trial at Lurrow Martin Co.'s Drug Store.
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