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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1897
Page
3
A long discussion on inherited blood taint notes Scrofula's dangers to children and promotes S.S.S. as a permanent cure. It recounts a North Carolina case where a three year old's sores and curvature of the spine allegedly healed after eight days, with walking restored in three months.
The Koreshan group claims a survey line shows earth concavity. Observations report line descent from uprights, bubble movement, and horizon tests with telescope near Naples Bay. Professors Morrow and observers claim water shows a concave surface and horizon phenomena support the theory.
An ad fragment touts One Minute Cough Cure as easy to take and effective. It lists locations and names including Sterling J M Protter Norfolk and others, with scattered streetwise cues and a weather warning about a coming storm and potential difficulties.
Fragmentary local receipt items mention railroad lines including Norfolk and Western Norfolk and Southern Atlantic and Danville Norfolk and Carolina Southern railway with unclear details.
Travel notice lists rail service between Norfolk Ocean View Old Point Hampton and Newport News with through connections. It includes daily and Sunday only frequencies, departure times from Norfolk Ocean View and Old Point, chair car availability, freight rules, and depot timing requirements.
Market bulletin from Norfolk Virginia dated June 5 1887 lists prices for fish meats lard butter cheese cocoa and oils. Entries include New York dairy butter 19 to 20c per pound creamery 18 to 20c lard tierces 44c per pound sugar cured hams 14 1 2 to 11 4 cents a piece and various grains and milled products with regional price ranges.
Lenoir to Philadelphia via Lyts Regular Link Steamship serves Norfolk and Philadelphia with weekly sailings from Norfolk on Monday Wednesday and Saturday at 6 p.m. and from Philadelphia on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. Through bills of lading to South and Southwest via Seaboard Air Line Southern Railway and Norfolk and Carolina lines. Rates include 50 berth and meals, voyage via calm waters. agency details provided for James W McCARRICK and William Clyde & Co with Norfolk and Philadelphia offices.
Fragmentary OCR lists per pound prices for croakers taylors pan fish soy fish founders sheephead mackarel ble fish speckled trout ved snapper rock and others. Prices garbled with odds and ends but indicates fishing market rate data.
Market reports strong demand for good cattle and dairy stock though milk cows from Eastern North Carolina cannot be sold due to a US quarantine. Western cattle steady to high quality priced. heifers and bulls listed with per head values. Hog demand dull with dressed hogs at a low price per pound and lambs at 6 to 7 cents per pound.
OCR read shows mixed prices for fruits vegetables and goods. Entries include lemons two fifty and cabbage one hundred five per barrel, potatoes sixty five dollars per sack, poultry old chickens twenty two forty six, eggs wholesale steady at doe, beeswax twenty two cents per pound, crack Irish potatoes one twenty.
Fragmentary OCR lists rosin and turpentine prices per barrel and per gallon with unclear terms. It mentions markets being quiet and steady and includes scattered foreign language fragments, numbers, and partial names, lacking coherent context.
Norfolk and Southern Railway announces daily service except Sunday arriving at 4:25 p.m. with a morning train on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday connecting with water and steam lines. Passenger stations at foot of Main Street Norfolk and Western depot on Water Street. Freight received daily until 5 p.m. and forwarded at low rates. For information contact Norfolk Virginia general offices.
General Manager SIRPRELIS of Norfolk announces tickets sold to all points North East and West. Staterooms reserved on application in person at No 77 West Main Street or on board the steamer. Freight not received after 4 p m. for forwarding that day. For further information apply to W RANDALL, Agent Dallas except Sunday.
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