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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1897
Page
2
OE. Jenkins at 82 Main St operates as a real estate and rental agency, with offices near the Corner Bank and Plume streets.
A list of dwellings and stores with numbers and street names including Main Street York Place Duke Street Church Street and Roanoke Dock. Also mentions a furnished cottage at Virginia Beach available from June 1897 with 4000 feet ground floor space and power. apply to T F Rogers in Columbia Building.
A piano advertisement touts a handsome upright model in rich mahogany with full scales and latest improvements. It guarantees fine tone and includes a scarf, plus one year of tuning, with terms to suit. Call or visit Charles M. Titleff's Piano Warerooms at 416 Main Street.
An unusual sales pitch touts high value per dollar with yard wide goods and fabrics priced at fractions of a dollar. The ad promotes New Mimitv lawns 614c and ginghams at 5c to 8c, fast black coid lawns 4c, and musings yard-wide 614c. Located at 44 Main Street.
The Southern railway outlines new terminal facilities at Pinner's Point Norfolk including additional wharves sheds and a terminal elevator. It reports grain trade growth from 739858 bushels in 1888 to 13854454 in 1896 and details track and yard expansions, new dock slips, and cost estimates totaling about 250000 with completion aimed by September 1 1897.
Electric Bitters is advertised as a seasonable remedy for languor exhaustion and liver sluggishness. It claims to avert bilious fevers and counteract malarial poison, with headaches indigestion and constipation yielding to its use. Sold at Burrow Martin & Co.'s Drug Store for b00c and $1.00 per bottle.
Campbell offers a two day special this Friday and Saturday with six cabinet photos and one large photo mounted for 1.50 dollars. Frames not required. Beecham’s Pills advertised for morbid conditions.
The schooner Sarah J. Putnam is on Leeds' ways for repairs. First American Guards uniforms arrived. Georgetown students in the city yesterday. Old Dominion wharf electric lighting running. High School exams began. W. R. Loughran left to visit Columbia, Pa. St Marys Academy students enjoyed country trip. Captain Nat Burruss in New York, due home next week. Philadelphia registrants at Cotton Exchange. Fourth Virginia regiment to Nashville tonight. Frances Barnes Y’s preached at Linton Mission. Berry crates shipped to the North daily. New York cruiser due in Hampton Roads today or tomorrow. Dr. Southgate Leigh improving. Miss Lillian Holt guest of Mrs. Jordan. Jacob Hecht left for Baltimore then Chicago for Free Sons of Israel meeting. City Ranger Holland returns from Chicago. Jones & Son sell vehicles today. Miss Lillian Rawls visiting Ghent. M C A wheelmen to Newport News for moonlight run to Old Point. Engine Thomas Kevill tested successfully. Hon. W. J. Bryan opens Chautauqua by the Sea here next Monday. Rev. W. J. Young to deliver baccalaureate at Randolph-Macon. Union Mission services last night by Frances Barnes Y’s. Lankford on liquor traffic. Open air Union Mission meeting tonight. Marriage cards issued for Miss Jula Butt of Hierkley and Dr H C Bradford of Norfolk. First American Guards planning excursion to Currituck. Norfolk young ladies return home from college.
The Richmond Dispatch previews Cooper & Co circus next week at popular prices. Promises creditable exhibitions including tight wire feats Japanese jugglers trapeze aerial stunts and a seasoned clown in a lively program for the crowds.
The composition of Veht iers relies on Speers Wine Peruvian Bark and Snake Ravot and is analyzed and recommended to the medical field by top U S chemists, inspiring confidence in Shase Malarial Bitters.
Beginning Tuesday June 11 the Clyde Line plans a Tuesday sailing to Philadelphia at p.m. Until further notice regular voyages will run Monday Tuesday Wednesday and Saturday at p.m.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertised as the best salve for cats bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chillblains corns and all skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money refunded with price five cents per box. For sale by Burrow Martin Co.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has issued a handsome summer travel hook describing mountain resorts springs baths along its lines and coastal watering places. It outlines routes comprehensively and clearly with fine paper and illustrations. Copies available from Baltimore and Ohio offices or by mail with postage paid.
A young woman arrived in urgent condition at City Hospital with left ovarian pain and impending rupture. The operation removed a disintegrating left ovary to save her life, with urgent warnings to seek medical advice and promoting Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound through personal testimonials.
A Roanoke dispatch reports Colonel Frank Huger aged about 60 died at midnight. He long served the Norfolk and Western railroad in confidential positions with General Mahone after the war. A native of South Carolina he belonged to the Huguenot family. He married Julia Trimble of Lynchburg and left a widow and several children.
Deputy United States Marshal Cross sold the burned Hyrtt ish steamship Clintonia yesterday morning to W. J. Lathan of Brooklyn for 1529. The sale reflected the vessel's bad engines and the rest of her damaged hull brought about 4200 to various buyers. The vessel and care will be delivered to purchasers at 1 o clock next Monday.
The St George Society will observe a jubilee in honor of Queen Victoria with a banquet at the Atlantic Hotel on the evening of the 24th. A formal programme includes toasts to be responded to by Colonel Willing Lamh and Thomas HW Will Cox, with Messrs Horton Myers Nut tingle and MM Glenn among others.
The shipment week ending June WW 087 was cleared by Allany Lamb & Co agents for Castner and certain parties. The text records totals and consignments though parts are garbled and unreadable.
The funeral of Miss Sarah Leulas Da Vie daughter of Mr and Mrs C Weley Davis was held at Treemason Street Haplist church yesterday afternoon. The services were conducted by Mr S Wharton and interment followed at Elmwood Cemetery.
The Rev Howard Mack is slated for regular installation as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church on Wednesday June a. The ceremony will be led by Revs WS Ley BR Weller HoT Darnall Judd E MueCiues and others present.
Secure your seats for Mr Jorg An’s Monday lecture. Single admission 50 cents, reserved seats 1.00. Comfortable seating at YM G A build frog.
The notice invites readers to visit the LA building today for tickets. General admission costs one dollar, with a special or reserved seat option available at fifty cents.
Porcst and general conditions for today report fair weather in Virginia and North Carolina. East portions warmer with light southerly winds. Port calendar lists sunrise and sunset times and high and low tides.
U S Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau in Norfolk records 24 hour observations including maximum and minimum temperatures, normal temperatures, departures from normal, rainfall figures, and humidity. Observer Gray logs the data for June 11.
Weather in the cotton belt is clear. United States port stocks total 865 628 for the week and 259 101 since Sept 1. Futures in New York declined with October near 6.74 and January around 6.78. Spot cotton remained steady with Southern markets unchanged and New Orleans contracts down four points. Sales included 1 090 bales in the spot market.
The New Jersey Naval Reserves will use a splenedia 28-Lowne steate cutter built at the Norfolk navy yard. It was shipped to the Reserves commanding officer via the Old Dominion Steamship Company.
Owens Lolee of Masons Nord was elected to One following officers. John T Bell W OM Walter Ir Hall 5S W Edwierd I Paten J Wo Robert Jone ston Treasurer S P Moore Secretary J Mward Cole ae D W OH Sargmunt Jr J DF Hey 5 Barten Chaplain Pettit Cilet.
A reporter witnessed about forty Malay sailors aboard the British steamship Moroa performing a colorful dockside feast of dances and tricks. The event featured bamboo horse riders, costumed entertainers, gamblers, and a crew of fifty seven Indian sailors under Captain Adams, described as an annual Mohammedan celebration lasting four weeks.
A Norfolk reader reports repeated fatigue and weakness in limbs improved after using Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Pills. The testimonial lists J. H. Love of West Main Street as a source.
The selection offers a comprehensive range of lawns and dimities priced at 6c to 8c with patterns of high quality. All goods up to 25c are described as intrinsically worth the price, with Joseph Brown at 210 Church Street, Norfolk, promoting the stock.
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