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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1897
Page
3
A public critique denounces surgical operations as often unnecessary and deadly, arguing cancer cannot be cut from the blood. It recounts a Dallas boy who reportedly recovered after Swift's Specific, claiming lasting cure from a blood remedy advertised as superior for cancer, scrofula, eczema, catarrh, and rheumatism.
The Washington Post reports a British style electric light bath developed by Dr. J T Kellogg of Battle Creek. A seven by five by four foot cabinet houses sixty two incandescent lamps with mirrors to multiply rays. The system claims to provide uniform heat and radiant energy deeper than sunbathing, adjustable via a rheostat, exposing skin areas as desired.
Experiments at Tuttle Creek show how heat and air interact in Turkish baths. Air's poor conduction slows heat transfer while skin limits moisture loss, allowing exposure to high temperatures. Findings suggest heat penetrates tissues, stimulating nerve fibers and nutritive processes, with potential for prolonged tissue repair.
A compact item notes Loyal, Thro, Seaboard Air Line Norfolk and Western, Atlantic and Danville, Norfolk and Southern, Southern Railway, Hy 25 Norfolk and Carolina with total figures referenced in the listing.
Norfolk market bulletin lists prices for fish meats and groceries in July 1897. Items include Herring Family Roe in barrels at 2.50, North Carolina Cut Herring 3.50, Potomac in barrels, and Provisions like pork and lard with varied per hundredweight or case prices. Dairy goods cover butter 18 to 20 cents, cream cheese 11 to 14, and Western butter substitutes. Grain and staples show wheat patent family at 5.00, salt at firm levels, and milled rice priced around 40 to 60 cents, with market trends noting price adjustments tied to delivery rates and local rules.
Prices for peas and grains show steady markets across Michigan Ohio and Indiana. No. 1 Timothy Kay seed 15 dollars per unit. No. 2 thirteen. mixed twelve. White corn at two dollars twenty-one twenty per hundredweight, bran thirteen dollars per ton, shipstuff middling fourteen dollars, white bolted fifty-nine pounds four hundred shipped.
A fragment lists per pound prices for various seafood items including croakers taylors pan fish flounders sheephead mackerel blue fish speckled trout rock and others with values like 2e ge se fe 10e and similar. The OCR shows numerous garbled units and misspellings but indicates a local market price board for seafood.
Eastern North Carolina dairy cattle and cattle varieties face restricted supply due to U S quarantine rules. Market shows strong demand for Western cattle and fat cows with prices listed for milk cows common cattle and hogs.
A garbled price list shows various items with rates including bananas at 1.00 to 1.25 per bunch, oranges at 4.50, Messina items at 2.50, coroomuts at 50 per bag, garlic or similar at 8.50, cabbages at 1.25 per barrel, potatoes and onions at several dollars per sack, and poultry at 20 to 25 cents per dozen. Also listed are beeswax at 22 cents per pound, naval stores rosin 2.25 per barrel, pitch 2.25 per barrel, tar 4.00 per barrel, turpentine at 0.30 per gallon, with several unclear or garbled entries.
Fragmentary OCR reads like a transit flash with references to trains and Cincinnati. The legible bits mention past trains and a gun underscoring a possible security incident. Details are incomplete, names and dates are missing, rendering a cautious item about rail disruption.
A fragmented OCR note lists assorted market terms and product labels such as Hand Picked Paney, Bases ex-Lras, No 1 Spanish protest HaPo 4e, No 1 Virginia Zoe and No 2 Virginain Be, alongside rankings like third grade and 2tedrdge and references to prime, rarefied items, suggesting a catalog or price list from a farmers market with mixed legibility. The item appears to be a catalog fragment or advertisement with unclear formatting and several misrecognized terms.
Cypress Lumber Market dull with low demand. Quotes include boards and various dimensions: 1x6 bi and 2x4 16 foot stock, rough and clear grades, price ranges from 10.00 to 20.00 per unit, joists and sleepers listed, mooring stock and cages noted, overall weaker market with scattered bids and mixed grade values.
Cypress Lumber Market shows steady demand with mixed prices across sizes and grades. Notable quotes include 4-4 No 1 10 inches at 15 50 and 4-4 No 2 edge at 111 00, while stock and edge items for 4-4 No 8 and 3 reflect varied pricing.
Receipts of W. O. staves show liberal demand with prices for heavy pipes, white oak hogsheads, and white oak heading. Quotes include No 1 hearts $5.00 to $6.00, No 2 hearts $4.00 to $4.50, sap and sans ranges, and various culls. Oak barrels and octaves listed with prime and cull prices. market activity noted as steady with rising supplies.
Norfolk and Southern R A schedule lists daily except Sunday sailings to Hawbeth City Edenton Mackey s Werry Troper Paniepea Leshaven and others with connections at Edenton Belhaven and Norfolk to various river landings and coastal ports. arrivals at Norfolk daily at 2 30 pm and 1 am. freight daily via Eastern Carolina Dispatch and Norfolk Southern routes. for details apply to General Office Norfolk Va.
Listings show varied cattle types and prices with fat steers common and rough oxen priced low while hogs move slightly stronger but lambs and sheep are weak. Also ad for Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve claimed to relieve skin diseases, sold by Trottier Smith and Wilson.
Tickets sold to all points North East and West and baggage checked to destination. Stowrooms reserved upon application in person at the office 0 West Main street or on board steamer. Freight will not be received after 4 p m to go forward that day. For further information apply to W Randall Agent. Regular Klinistear lines sail Norfolk to Philadelphia Mondays Wednesdays Saturdays at 6 p m and from Philadelphia Thursdays Saturdays. Through bills of lading to all points South via Seaboard Air Line Southern Railway Norfolk and Carolina Norfolk and Southern Railroads. James W McCarrick General Agent Norfolk Wa. WM. PLCYDM & CO Agents Philadelphia
Listing a Norfolk to Old Point route via Ocean View and Norfolk and Onominn View. Timetables show departures May 21 with multiple stops, arrival times around 7 15 in the evening, and round trip streetcar tickets priced to six cents to Old Point and two cents to Ocean View. Tickets sold by conductors on all Norfalls street cars.
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