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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1895
Page
5
A long fashion notice describes a white theme for summer wear in New York, detailing fabrics such as Swiss, dotted Swiss, pique, percaline, organdie, and lawn. It notes white garments for ladies and children, the rise of white accessories, and the popularity of duck and pique suits. Yachting and tennis attire receive attention with cream fringed hats, belts, and striped accents.
Dallas freethinkers hall could not hold all listeners for John R. Chitesworth's infidel lecture titled Is there a God. He argued there is no hereafter evidence for God and traced history to modern times. Mrs Sweeney and Secretary Paget proposed a three month public confession test on prayer efficacy.
Gossip in New York ties Richard Harding Davis to a romantic marriage with actress Maude Adams. Davis, famed author and friend of John Drew, has drawn attention by frequent visits to Adams. The pair are said to be courting amid public fascination and rumor.
The excerpt from Mary E Lease’s new book argues that two dominant forces shaped history the nobility of royalty and the power of money. It claims that labor and the money power have long controlled economic and political life.
A well driller taps an underground river far below the Alleghany river bed and pulls up a 12 inch eyeless fish. The owner ponders whether to continue pumping for water or strange fish as the Cleveland Plain Dealer notes. The Soldier's brat cites the general in chief withholding stance on silver as a reaction to metal issues.
A collage of dialect poems and humorous snippets from old newspapers. Fragments reference Georgia watermelons, Weehawken letters, and rural life. The piece showcases colorful regional language and minstrel style bits with scattered names and places.
A garbled OCR style piece mixes beekeeping lore with odd political quotes. It mentions managing bees, hive rotation, and a mayoral remark about civic virtue, attributed to various names. The text contains several distorted words and tangled phrases, yielding a quirky, if unclear, historical snippet.
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