Growth of Norfolk Demands Local Aid to Prosperity
General Virgilus Ironer argues Norfolk's postwar advance hinges on home effort and stronger local industry. He cites natural advantages, rail and river connections, and lower transport costs to attract manufacturing, fertilizers, machinery, fabrics, and ship cargoes, urging coordinated public and private investment to turn Norfolk into a major inland shipping and manufacturing hub.
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Orfoli
Virgilus Ironer
Pply
Baiar
Mairs
Chicago
Columbian Commission
Groner
Benet
Mavc Brisen
Leigureeds
Norfolk
Europe
Glasgow
St. Petersburg
Ate Ranta
Paecreia
Chicaro
St. Loui
Cincinnati
Milwaukee
Dertrait
From Scott's Emulsion Ads to Cooking Rules
An ironic prose fragment questions reliability in following prescribed directions. It contrasts doctors, druggist, and cooks with a 25 year standard, arguing for exactness and avoiding substitutes. The piece underscores consistent results from long experience over imperfect approximations.
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Scott
Baltimore Exports Rise Amid Southern Port Gains
The Treasury data show Baltimore keeps pace with southern rivals as nine months to March 1897 export value reaches 66.6 million dollars, up from 49.9 million a year earlier. Norfolk, Pensacola, Newport News, Tampa, and Wilmington all report large percentage gains, while Galveston lags. The piece cites port infrastructure advantages and notes New York faces competition in foreign trade expansion.
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Chicago
United States
Norfolk
Newport News
Providence
Rob
Hoo Barrie
North Carolina
New York
Boston
Mahone
Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad
Norfolk and Western
Chesapeake and Ohio
Southern and Seaboard Air Line
Virginia Beach
Belline
Lambert's Point
Baltimore
Maryland
Treasury Department
Galveston
Portsmouth
Stai Vhs
Pensacola
Ila
Tiaimpa
Wilmington
Atlantic
Gulf
Teneo
Frejehi
Copper Wing romance heads to St Dunstan's in Fleet Street
London society buzzes over the Copper Wing tale of John McDonough, president of John McDonough Security Company of Denver, linked to Gholson Copper Company and a major Denver property figure as an American entrant in British social circles.
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Clear Creek
Col
Stanley
England
Mobile
Athletic
Margaret Dare
New York
Richard Dare
New Orleans
Miss Dare
Mr. McDonough
McDonough
Bury
Liverpool
America
Lfe
Ife
Albany
Troy
New York State
Colorado
W. S. Stratton
Denver
First National Bank of Colorado
Sol
Common Wealth Savings Bank
Cluater County
Gholson
Michi 'At
MacDonauld
Jowell
London
St. Dunstan's
Fleet Street
John Mc- Donough
Electric Bitters Promises Relief For Seasonal Ailments
Electric Bitters Medric Litters is a medicine suited for any season, often helping languid, exhausted feeling when the liver is torpid. It counters malarial poision and indigestion, with a $1.00 per bottle price at Burrow Martin Co.'s Drug Store.
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Hlectric Bitters, Inc
Burrow, Martin & Co
Hotel Bedford offers rates at elegant family resort
Hotel Bedford in Bedford City Virginia sits in the Blue Ridge Mountains near the Peaks of Otter. The notice advertises monthly rates as a and HO per month for a delightful family resort and invites readers to request particulars by address.
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Bedford
Bedford City
Vaa
Biue Ridge Mountains
Otter
Alleghany Water
Medical Society of Virginia
Band of
May 1887 records chill unseen in climate history
The Bureau of Meteorology notes no month on record colder than May 1887 while the last month’s bleak weather mirrors a harsh winter. Chicago endures a prolonged cool spell from October to June with limited sun and many raw days. Frost damages northern strawberry crops and trade suffers as the heating transition looms.
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Bureau of Meteorology
Chicago
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