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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1896
Page
8
The article notes shifting mourning etiquette as fashion adapts to grief. It describes shorter deep veils, redesigned bonnets, and the widow’s cap evolving for age groups, with Elderly styles retaining caps while younger widows avoid them. Materials span Henrietta cloth to dull silks, with plain trims and restrained black and white ensembles. Nina Fitch.
Virginia obituaries report the deaths of Virginia Nowa Hughes a Campbell county rentzen Louis C Mpper in Spotsylvania and Mary Wakeman in Fredericksburg and news of territorial telecommunication linking Staunton and Winchester. Democratic primaries nominate James Hay and John F Rixey for Congress. Watts and Arnett address a Parkersburg meeting. Car work layoffs in Martinsburg and a McKinley club forming in Culpeper. In Lynchburg a Dane Erik Nelmann dies after a train depot incident. a Copenhagen port card is found among his papers.
A family from Elkhart Indiana describes a fourteen year old daughter Mattie suffering last spring from St Vitus dance and nervousness with a numb right side. They sought medical consultation and treatment from a doctor and discuss a remedy.
An old classified style ad by Dr L Br Firby promotes catarrh and ENT treatments at 186 Main Street Norfolk VA. It lists symptoms like throat mucus headaches chest pain and fatigue and offers low terms, free consultation, medicines provided, and an easy payment path via Virginia Trust Co room 4 Main Street.
One third cash balance due at sale with two equal installments at six and twelve months. Deferred payments to be evidenced by negotiable promissory notes payable to the trustee, bearing interest from sale date and secured by deed of trust on the described premises. Jul 8.
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