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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1896
Page
11
A crowd at a small depot enjoys a comic prank as a farmer awaits his wife’s arrival. A jokester reveals alleged infidelity, only to reveal the supposed wife arriving in disguise to expose the ruse. The scene ends with the farmer reuniting with the real wife amid the community laughter.
The text pools jokes and dialogue from a humor page, featuring quips about truth and veracity, Weather Bureau staff, inventions, boy heroes, masquerade mischief, and a weather forecast exchange. It reads as a collage of captions and punchlines with scattered newspaper banter and jokes.
A Norfolk dealer declares an all encompassing holiday furniture sale with mahogany desks chairs beds and sideboards at prices well below market. He touts 40 to 60 cent on the dollar purchases and promises absolute guarantees with written proofs. Many pieces including brass beds and baby carriages are displayed in windows and will be delivered by December 24th.
The Washington Star quotes the old motto about staying diligent to achieve success, noting the enduring value of steady effort in business and daily life. The snippet reflects a mindset of consistency and perseverance as a path to achievement.
A Philadelphia paper decries election fraud claims in the South while calling for a nationwide crackdown on fraud at home. It notes inventions and patents, from a horse whips device to an in bed bath system for invalids, highlighting broad tech curiosities.
The Dog Fancier notes friendly alliances among animals. Dogs form unusual intimacies with horses and even poultry, showing a keen capacity for cross species friendships. Geese are described as sagacious, suggesting mutual regard between dogs and birds.
Across farm and village scenes, birds and dogs display surprising loyalty. A Gray leg goose shelters with a mastiff after a fox attack, staying by the kennel and seeking daily corn. A retriever bonds with a hen, sharing nest duties, while a rook sits on a bulldog’s back in quiet companionship.
A series of legal notes discuss law on checks not payable when stamped stipulations, bank liability for fraud by cashiers, and how directives for remittance influence trust status. Cases cited include Commercial Nat Bank vs Pirat Nat, Savies v Cox Tenn, Gray v Sherman, Merchants Nat Bank v Carhart, and others, detailing bank duty, forged indorsements, and surmise on the deceased’s paper discounts.
In Haron Thiebault's memoirs, newly published, details emerge of an incident after Elba when Napoleon allegedly received a vial of poison from Cadet Gassicourt. The act was halted as Napoleon reconsidered his suicide, with a locket containing poison involved and a dramatic summons to the Elysee.
Gansicourt told Thirhault that even after the Emperor’s death from stomach lesion, a particle of poison could not have been extracted and death would come sooner or later.
Morning and evening sermons announced for First Baptist Freemason Street Grace Baptist Lutheran and other churches. Topics include The Battles of Life The Keys of Deaths and The Breadwinning Woman with Sunday schools and evening services scheduled across Grace Baptist Epworth M E and Church of Christ on Freemason and Queen Street in a city-wide prayer and ministry notice.
The Women’s Board of Missions will conduct a service devoted to education. An interesting programme has been prepared by president Mrs. Mo W. Mason, promising to be entertaining and beneficial.
The regular semi annual examination for clerks and carriers in the Norfolk Post office was held yesterday by Civil Service Examiners. Twenty four applied. eleven women and ten men appeared for clerk and carrier posts, with three women and two men among those examined for clerkships.
The December meeting of the Make te Presbyterian League will be held at the First Presbyterian church on Friday evening at 8 p.m. The Rev Dr Fair of Tilch mond will be the speaker. The quarterly Wystheag Meeting will be held at the Second church on the following Monday evening.
Rew Warey urges readers to keep health pure with Fiscal a Sursapariia aid to ward off colds bronchitis pneumonia or typhoid. Hood Pills are presented as easy to take and to use for family care and general well being. See Dr Levy 17 Granby street for eye exams. Free eye exams and guaranteed glasses prescribed by Dr Week.
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