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Newspaper

Norfolk Virginian

Location

Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 25, 1897

Page

3

Small City Police Court Docket Shifts Through Colorful Case Load

Justice Tomlin disposed of a mixed docket. Cephas Johnson alias George Stuyton was fined and jailed for stealing a barrel of oil from the Norfolk and Southern railroad. Rioberta Burnett was fined and jailed for child sustenance failure. Halstead was fined for assault. another trespass case was dismissed. Nottingham faced a pistol charge, left town, and did not appear. Larceny cases involving Patterson and Bushnell were dismissed. Ben Foster was discharged after a hearing in a death-related case. Virgie Buxton was sent to the grand jury for breaking and stealing clothing. A separate incident saw Buxton jailed six months for another theft.

Tomlin Cephas Johnson George Stuyton Norfolk and Southern Railroad Company Rioberta Burnett B. BR. Halstead Joseph R. Lindsley J. R. Lindsley B. GB. Halstead Thomas Nottingham Jn Coat J. Patterson George Bushnell Ben Foster Frank Whitehurst P. J. Morris Virgie Buxton Minnie Wilson Pulaski Street Buxton Lucy Poster Queen Street Court of Laws and Chancery W. T. Webb Tweddett East River Steel Athantle City J. M. Keeling Tena M. W Olney Road J. M. Keelling Riani Small Eliza H. Smatl United States Court Barstad Mirch de Marriol Horsburge Linn Cook John Andersen United States United States Marechal Witnesets Supreme Court of Appeals Andersen Stenship Santiago de Cuba Mackengle Strathay United States Marshal

Publica tions Received and January Magazines Noted

The New Year issue of Godey’s Magazine features new scripts and seven other stories including The Wimpled Mail of Nantucket and The Light of Persistan, with strong illustrations. Outing collects Canadian Winter Pastures and Tarpon Fishing in Florida among others. Cosmopolitan offers The Real Klondike and From Out of the Shadow. Farm and Garden Monthly notes Roden’s Corner and The New Northwest. Virginian records calendars from George W. Taylor, fire insurance agent.

Gopdey's Godey's Nantucket Persistan George C. Lay Inn Jin Jamies Florida Jack Freet Klondike Runkelstein Stone Riv New Northwest Hearper & Brothers The Virginian George W. Teylon

NORPOLE CANDY KITCHEN ADVERTISEMENT AND SHOE STORE SALE

An old newspaper fragment advertises NORPOLE CANDY KITCHEN selling fresh candies from 8 to 60 cents per pound and notes a weekly special at Heller's Shoe Store 64 Bank Street opposite the Courthouse with ladies felt slippers and various rubber boots and shoes on sale.

Norpole Candy Kitchen Heller's Shoe Store Bank Street Courthouse

Amusements at the Academy Offer Varied Shows

The Academy of Music presents Dodge n Trip to New York with Men shaw and May Ten Broeck today in two performances. Darkest America features a large South-dance contest, Carmen and Never Again are scheduled, plus a Star Theatre matinee draw and a rich vaudeville and film program upcoming.

Academy Dodge New York John E. Menshaw May ‘Ten Broeck Academy of Music Averlica Ith John W. Vogel America South Boston Daily Advertiser Mise Rosvbell Morrison Bizet Therr Noture Chicago Star Theatre Texas Amd Exatin Meath Holmes and Wolmes Laurel Sisters Tew Rawlings Littie Fisie Marlinettas Dawson Gilbert Aketch Jones Academy of Music Building

The Coming Woman and Remedies Featured in Ad Pages

An advertising page discusses the New Woman and home makers as health sufferers with complaints like loss of appetite and headaches. It promotes Electric Thiters and Riverine Billers as remedies, touting relief for nervous and female troubles. The page also promotes fur, jewelry, and clothing items from local merchants with price cuts and new designs.

Dirmen Mamin

Ancient Indian Burial Ground Discovered Near Santa Barbara Fort Site

Archaeologists uncover an ancient Indian burial ground beneath a Santa Barbara hillside near Castle Point and the Dibblee mansion. Louis G. Dreyfus leads excavations revealing crumbled bones, primitive stone tools, shell beads, and a growing prehistoric collection.

Santa Barbara Castle Point Righ Iand Dibblee Louis G. Dreyfus Dreyfus Toc Jon

The Rot Ferland read in Monthly Record

The reading article from the Monthly Record, published at the State prison, carries a religious tone and offers five conduct rules. Author No 18 H outlines living principles such as health and appetite, being busy, forgetting self, avoiding self pity, and trusting in God to ease life’s bitterness.

Monthly Record Rotferland Hartford Courant Gai

NO LUCK IN HORSE SHOTS ON Greenwich STREET

A truck driver on Greenwich Street New York battles superstition about horse shoes. A load of discarded shoes spilled when a street board fell damaging his wagon and injuring his foot. A passing car struck the rim, breaking spokes and forcing a return home where three of his children are sick with the menstrual illness.

Greenwich Street New York City Nowrek Fricht Uhrawlie Bln

Infidelity and Lost Faith Amid Desert Shadows

A meditation on infidelity and the erosion of virtue and belief, describing a wasteland of mortal limits and unknowable infinity. It frames a man’s loss of God as a fall from grace and a quest for light in a night of despair. Two young women, Annie and Mary Wilson, in Wilmington, New Jersey, are noted for splitting rails and extracting pit posts, doing all the work themselves with apparent ease.

Tuiman Annie Mary Wilson Wilmording N. J

Charity and fashion blur as verse and millinery mingle

A fragment mixes a eulogy for Harry Harrington with fashion notes on black velvet ribbons, Chantilly lace, jet trims, and elaborate bonnets. It describes blouses, straps of jet net, and jeweled decorations, ending with a stylish bonnet described at length.

Cevenloe

Funeral notices and local incidents fill city page

A prayer meeting is planned at Christian Memorial Temple and funeral services were held for L C Ashburn at Pack Avenue Baptist Church. A house fire on North Street caused about 1000 damage to one home and partial damage to a nearby house. Reports of residents traveling for Christmas visit relatives and a weather comment closes with a rural note from St Louis Chronicle.

Christhin Memorial Temple J. J. Hall D. D L. C. Ashburn Pack Avenue Baptist Church Elmwood Yestenbie City Pro Department AL Poster Tire Department Wayner Prooklyn Riehme Disparch Kentucky St. Louis

Dr Humphreys Medicine Ad Readers urged to request drug

An old advertisement urges druggists or customers to ask for Dr. Humphreys Medicine Company remedies for all diseases price and availability. It promotes mail order and states the medicine is sent free. The ad lists New York as the company location.

Humphreys

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