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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1897
Page
4
Advertising rates set at 75 cents per column inch for first insertion plus 34 cents for each additional. Notices 20 cents for first insertion, 12 to 15 cents for subsequent insertions on alternate days. Address for submissions is Ralph M. Keefe in New York. Virginian manuscripts cannot be returned.
A garbled memory of many 19th century names and snippets: references to David Bennett Hill, Calhoun, Lee, Kan s asylums, cadet gray suits, Gage letters, Navy investigations, Albany and Brooklyn figures, and disparate notes on weather, labor, slavery, and sugar costs. The fragmentary text mixes politicians, editors, and institutions with stray phrases about ships, gardens, and a Belfast trip.
The Senate contest this fall is heated as states prepare to elect 31 members whose terms expire March 3, 1899. Fifteen Democrats and fifteen Republicans along with one Populist face renewal. States voting include California Connecticut Delaware Florida Indiana Maryland Mississippi Maine Michigan Massachusetts Montana Missouri Minnesota Nebraska New York North Dakota New Jersey Nevada Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Vermont Wisconsin West Virginia Washington and Wyoming.
A Canton inspired editorial urges self reliance and energy for success, citing Mayor Strong and comparing country and city youths. It argues hard work and discipline beat privilege, notes Canton’s hardship, and critiques Secretary Bliss and McKinley era prosperity claims amid widespread unemployment and wage cuts.
The article relays sharp exchanges about national business conditions sparked by Mr Wannamaker. Secretary Cornelius Bliss defends McKinley administration and counters claims based on Philadelphia by noting similar dullness in Canton, Ohio. Correspondent James Creelgan offers further perspective.
A St Louis woman secured a guardian for her husband after proving he spent his monthly pension of 30 on patent medicines. In Denmark, 5 554 personal crisis reports from 1885 to 1905 show four-fifths by men with May and June peak months. Three in four favored hanging. The London General Post Office houses over 1 000 telegraph operators, many of them women, powered by 80 000 cells. Russia leads military expenses at 258 million yearly, England 191 million, France 155 million, Germany 140 million, Austria 89 million, Italy 65 million. Argentina’s census records 4 092 000 total, 1 046 000 urban. Buenos Aires tops at 1 646,854. Governor Black signs 2.5 million for the Astor Lenox Tilden libraries, to rise on the old reservoir site at Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, with about 450 000 volumes.
Brief items note President McKinley expects Congress to adjourn about July. The report comes amid a column of varied small notes from Bridgeton Missouri where a 91-year-old man planted two maple trees on his birthday, plus other colorful society tidbits.
The store headlines massive bargains on men’s wear with 189 price tag suits and coats. Offers include double breasted navy coats up to size 42, 49 cent trousers, five ninety eight complete suits, and wool plaid Chevrot suits for young men. Vast selection promises economy and style.
Fancy plaid suits for four young men feature elegant designs in pure wool Cheviot. No merchant tailor needed as the garments are cut stylishly and trimmed, priced at only six porty-wight.
Fragmentary ad notes a money saving sale at a shop offering items described as Wash Sailor Sults in assorted sizes and prices up to 8 dollars. It urges customers to act quickly while stock lasts, mentioning a price around twenty three cents.
Bargains offer extra good quality office coats for men and a wide range of suits. Includes plaid cheviot sack suits at low prices, unlined serge coats for hot weather, linen coats, and navy serge sets. Sailor suits and reefer styles priced from under a dollar to a few dollars, with sizes from children to teens and fashionable fabrics highlighted.
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