Real estate and rental listings across city streets and avenues
A dated ledger of properties and addresses shows multiple street numbers and blocks for sale or rent. Listings include ground floor space for rent, values around 600 dollars cash, and locations on Duke, Main, Church, Granby, Cumberland, Bank, Water, and Franklin areas with notes on power access and suitability for tenants or investment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke Street
Boush Street
York
Main Street
nNo
Main
Cumberland
Bank Street
Shields Street
Dartmouth Street
Roanoke Dock
Granby Street
Commercial Place
Church Street
Fea
Water Street
Franklin Avenue
West End
Eemason
Commercial and residential street index fragments
An OCR fragment shows numerous street names and addresses across multiple districts. It lists houses, stores, offices, and poffices with partial numbers and incomplete words, suggesting a directory or street index snippet with many errors and garbled entries.
Handsome Upright Piano at Real Bargain
Auction note describes a rich mahogany upright piano with full scale and latest improvements. Includes a fine stool and scarf, one year of tuning, and tuning terms to suit. Visit Charles M. Kleft at 416 Market Street piano showroom to see it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles M. Kleft
Norfolk and Old Point street car fare change
Norfolk notices that conductors will not sell round trip sets today and hereafter at fifty cents. The change covers street car fares in Norfolk and the Ee car fare, with sixteen cents each way daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ATL
Norfolk
Greenwoods Watch and Jewelry Ad Sparks Local Bargains
Norfolk firm Greenwoods offers a midsummer sale of first class gold and silverware with unusual prices. Eastman Kodak and supplies available as well as repair services and engraving performed by skilled workmen with guaranteed satisfaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastman
Campbell's Free Ticket Ad Offer This Week
Campbell offers a limited week beginning June 14 inviting customers to bring the ad for special photo deals. For $50 one will receive six finely finished apinet and a large photograph. with the ad and $1.00 customers can obtain three photographs. Campbell, 34 Main Street.
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Campbell
Main Strest
Levy Bros Offer Summer Outing Goods and Swimwear
Readable fragments describe summer outing items including bathing suits for men and children, corsets, lawns, and various fabrics at low prices. Mentions Amity Lawns, Scotch and India lawns, nursing corsets, and price points like 60c and 10c. Stores Levy Bros advertise in a period paper style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Levy Bros
Ati Mada
More Girl Graduates and Medals Shine at Phillips West Exercises
Closing exercises at the Phillips West school in the Masonic Temple featured bright faced graduates in pretty costumes. Certificates and honors were presented by Capt. W. W. Old and Bishop Alfred M. Randolph who gave a short address and benediction. Gold medals celebrated penmanship and scholarship with top marks by Eliza Marsden and others. The event concluded with a formal dance for debutantes and gallants, described as a felicitous occasion.
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Honda
Bishop Randolph
Masonic Temple
Phillips & West
W. W. Old
Alfred M. Randolph
Southern
Virginia
West
Ralin
Lucy Hardy
Miss West
Lucile Billsoly
Neva Land
Erl King
Eliza Marsden
Carrie Vernon Archer
Painie Lee Berry
Lucille Carrington Billsoly
Va Bowden
Mabel Beatrice Chamberlaine
Hildegarde Lucas Chamberlaine
Lizzie Barker Foster
Bessie Virginia Guy
Ethel Hardy
Annie Claire Kellam
Lotta Gertrude Koch
Neva Bunting Land
Jane Lovitt
Iyla Marsden
Ellen Alice Old
Mary Lemuel Perry
Florence
Mary Gabel Truxton
Dorothy Bradford Walke
Maria Virginia Wrenn
Gertrude Walke
Mabel Beattice Chamberlaine
Mary Isabel Truxton
Burk & Co. Ad Praised For Display Quality
The Virginian features Burk and Co. clothiers of Matin Street in a favorable notice praising their advertising. The piece stresses the advertiser’s prior success and The Virginian's display and mechanical quality as mutually beneficial to both parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burk & Co
Clothiers
Matin Street
City
The
Virginian
Funeral Services for Pendleton and Minter Held
The funeral of Mr. T. D. Pendleton, father of Mrs. J. P. Grandy, was held at 3:30 AM yesterday from 95 Grace Street. Rev. W. H. Edwards of Centenary M E Church officiated and the body was sent to Elizabeth City, N C for interment via the Norfolk and Southern railroad. Also, the funeral of Mr. J. Frank Minter from Colley Memorial Church at 4 PM featured rites by Rev. R. A. Robinson. Atlantic Lodge of Odd Fellows Elizabeth Lodge of Masons and Massagsoit Tribe of Red Men members attended. interment followed at Elmwood Cemetery.
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T. D. Pendleton
J. P. Grandy
Grace Street
W. H. Edwards
Centenary M. BE. Church
Elizabeth City
N. C
Norfolk and Southern Railroad
J. Frank Minter
St. Vincent's Hospital
Colley Memorial Church
R. A. Robinson
Atlantic Lodge of Odd Fellows
Elizabeth Lodge of Masons
Massagsoit Tribe of Red Men
Elmwood Cemetery
Dr King s New Discovery Praised by Merchants and Druggist
Stands at the Head Aug J Bogel leading druggist of Shreveport La says Dr King s New Discovery cures my cough and is the best seller. J F Campbell merchant of Bafford Ariz writes it never fails and cures consumption coughs and colds. The product not an experiment and has been tried a quarter century. Free trial battles at Butson Martin on Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Bogel
Shreveport
Dr. King
J. F. Campbell
Bafford
Ariz
Ovarian congestion warned of in women leads to surgery
A heated cautionary piece urges women to seek early treatment for ovarian congestion warning that neglect can worsen to tumor formation. It promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy and shares a Milwaukee testimonial detailing relief from ovarian inflammation after two years of illness and an operation narrowly avoided.
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Awful
Lydia HE
Pinkham
Milwaukee
Lydia &. Pinkham
Mia
I. M. Kwarp
Wentworth Ave
Milwaukee, Wis
Alaska lecture by Mrs J M Graham at First Baptist
Mrs J M Graham, national superintendent of temple work for the W C T U district, will lecture Tuesday night in the First Baptist church to support a $100 temple fund. A silver offering will be taken at the door. The Newark Daily Tribune praised her reading of Dickens' Child Wife at Trinity Episcopal church as one of the season’s finest and most enjoyable entertainments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinity Episcopal Church
J. M. Graham
Dickens
Saunders obituary notes Navy veteran and reform club member
Toward Saunders, a New York broker, died at his late residence in New York City on Sunday morning the 13th of the month from acute pneumonia at age 63. He belonged to the Reform Club and the Southern Society where he had served as treasurer. Virginian by birth he fought with distinction in the Army of Northern Virginia, was wounded at Petersburg, remained in service, and surrendered with Lee at Appomattox. His remains were buried at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore on Wednesday the 16th.
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Saunders
New York
Reform Club
Southern Society
Otey
Greenmount Cemetery
Baltimore
Torpedo Boat to Become Launch Run Between Navy Yard and Indian Head
One torpedo boat planned for the Texas battleship force, deemed too large for deck service, will be cut down and repurposed as a launch. It will shuttle between the Washington navy yard and the proving grounds at Indian Head on the Potomac.
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Texas
Washington Navy Yard
Proving Grounds
Indian Head
Potomac
William H Taylor Recovering After Hospital Operation
Mr. William H. Taylor, traffic manager of the Atlantic and Danville railroad, is at St. Vincent's Hospital undergoing a serious operation performed by Dr. Ruffin. The Virginian reports the procedure was successful and expects a recovery period of about a week before he can leave the hospital. Friends of Mr. Taylor look for a swift return to health.
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W. HE
William H. Taylor
Atlantic and
Danville
Virginian
St. Vincent’s Hosital
Ruffin
Taylor
Bucklen's Arnica Salve for skin eruptions and more
The advertisement claims Bucklen's Arnica Salve is the best for cats, bruises, sores, ulcers, as well as piles. It guarantees satisfaction or money refunded, priced at 25 cents per box. Sold by Thurrow, Martin & Co, with Dr. Weel offering eye care signals.
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Thurrow, Martin & Co
Burglary charge looms in city police court
In police court John Lovitt colored held for grand jury on burglary of George Collins home at 392 Cumberland street. Clothes valued at 10 to 15 dollars allegedly pawned with Collins’ instruction to break in if short of funds. Also pending false swear charge. Other defendants noted with various outcomes. Captain Peterson of the American bark Ingersoll died in New York. he was to testify in the Blanchard murder case. The prisoner awaits a preliminary hearing next week.
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John Lovitt
George Collins
Cumberland Street
Lovitt
Collins
Harry Butt
H. Crockin
Walter Keeling
Lucinda Parham
George Blount
William Houltz
Robert E. Gordon
Bethel and
Ingram
Norfolk
York
T. J. Anderson
Seaboard Air Line
Chief White
United States
White
HH. Peterson
Ingersoll
New York
Peterson
Blanchard
Ackiss
Grace Estelle Simpson v Simpson divorce suit
Grace Estelle Simpson sues by her next friend W B Traylor for divorce. The Lynnhaven Syndicate sues W Anderson on an assumpsit claim for 300 dollars. The same party sues R G Banks on an assumpsit claim for 300 dollars.
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Grace Estelle Simpson
W. B. Traylor
Charles Archie Simpson
The
Lynnhaven Syndicate
W. Anderson
Assumpsit
Same
R. G. Banks
Property Transfers in Brambleton Ward Notices
C E Townsend to Jane D B Peen transfers a lot with improvements on Sheldon street near Corprew avenue in Brambleton ward for 800 dollars. Harry Nixdorff to Calebe White of Knott s Island N C transfers a lot with improvements on Highland avenue in Brambleton ward for 1100 dollars. J J White to Annie Leo Prancis transfers two lots on Chapel street for 2600 dollars.
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C. E. Townsend
Jane DB. Peen
Sheldon Street
Corprew Avenue
Brambleton Ward
Harry Nixdorff
Calebe, White
Knott's Island
N. C
Highland Avenue
J. J. White
Annie Leo Prancis
Chapel Street
Southern Electric sues Odd Fellows hall trustees for 354 dollars
In the clerk's office yesterday Southern Electric Equipment company filed a flen against the trustees of Odd Fellows hall amounting to 354.75 dollars. The firm had done work for Stronach and Raymond the swindling lessees of the Opera House and seeks recovery from the Odd Fellows who own the theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Electric Equipment Company
Od Fellows' Hall
Stronach & Raymond
Opera House
Odd Fellows
Judge Grants Charter To Norfolk Laundry Company
Judge Prentiss of the City Circuit Court yesterday granted a charter to the Kelley Steam Laundry company of Norfolk. The objects stated are to conduct a laundry business.
Norfolk Appeals Decide Three Cases on Shore Line and Land Claims
The Court of Appeals in Wrythe-Ville yesterday decided three Norfolk cases. The Groner vs Foster et al. case fixes a rule for port warden line apportionment among riparian owners based on their share of shore line at low water, a significant precedent for Norfolk landowners. The Hudgins and Wilt vs Simon suit concerns heirs of Marie Le Masurier seeking land bounded by Charles Calvert and Chapel streets, tracing title through several transfers from 1868 to 1892 before reaching Mrs Windy Haln’s ownership. the case followed a corporation court judgment with an appeal.
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Norfolk
Court of Appeals
Wrythe- Ville
Groner
Foster
William 4. White
Judge Martin
Corporation Court
Tunstall
J. Lawrence
Ivoner
Messrs. Walke & Old
Mosier Et Als
Arthur Taylor
Corporation Court of Norfolkk
Wim
Windy Ualn
Mer
Hudgins
Chiry
Lucky
Celeste Mon- Githint
Marie le Masurier
Court of Appeals Affirms Adversary Possession Ruling
In the case on appeal the Court of Appeals sustains the lower court judgment over adversary possession. Burroughs & Bro. represent the plaintiffs while Heath & Heath and Judge Kendall defend the defendants. The Insurance Company of North America versus Gamble & Co concerns a burnt cotton sale by an agent, telegram notification, and final confirmation by the company. Loyall & Taylor act for Gamble. Neely, Seldner & Warrington for the company.
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Court of Appeals
Burroughs & Bro
Heath & Heath
Kendall
Northampton
Insurance Company of North America
Gamble & Co
Court of Law and Chancery
Gamble
Loyall & Taylor
Neely, Seldner & Warrington
Clyde Line Clerk and Seventeen Year Old Elope to North Carolina
Andrew H. Yahn a Clyde Line clerk married Miss Maimale Johnson the seventeen year old daughter of Mr and Mrs H W Johnson of 305 Lovitt Avenue. They eloped Thursday night and traveled to North Carolina to wed. Parents objected to the match due to their daughter's youth.
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Andrew H. Yahn
Clyde Line
Maimale Johnson
Dourshter
H. W. Johnson
Lovitt Avenue
North Carolina
Norfolk and Western Depot
Unsigned Communications and Be M W Corrections
The Virginian will publish no communications without full writer names. A local desk note states unsigned items from BE M W and an Analysis of a Correction will wait publication until authors are identified. Also promotes Aunt Rachael's Malarial Bitters and claims grape juice benefits and malaria cure.
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The
Virginian
BE. M. W
Rachael
Atlantic Clit Mr Israel Post Visits Keyport N J
Mr Israel Post of Keyport New Jersey visits the family of Mr H D Hope. The Lambert Point knitting mill which shut down recently is said to resume work next Monday. Colley Memorial Church holds public worship at 11 a m and 8 p m with Rev R A Robinson preaching. Junior C E at 4 p m and senior C B E at 7 p m.
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Israel Post
Keyport
N. J
D. Hope
Lamberts Point I Knitting Miu
Colley Memorial Church
R.A. Robinson
C. E
C. BE
Fifth Annual Meeting of Chesapea Classified Building Association
The fifth annual meeting of the stockholders will be held Thursday evening July 1 1897 at 730 at Bence No 1 Berkeley avenue Berkley. Foster Black president and George T Tilley secretary will preside and attend.
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The
Chesapeake Classified Building Association
Neag Bence
Berkley Avenue
Berker. A
Electric Bitters and Household Remedies Ad
Electric Bitters is promoted as a seasonal tonic and alterative for languor liver sluggishness and fever prevention. Claims include relief from headache indigestion constipation and dizziness with pricing 60c and 1.00 per bottle at Burrow Martin Co. Also includes unrelated arithmetic puzzle and shoe advertisement referencing Heller's Patrol Shoe at 64 Bank Street.
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Burrow, Martin & Co
Heller
Bank Street
The Manufacturer's Clothing Co Advertises Value
A nostalgia laden ad extols We manufacture every stitch of clothing we sell and promise deep savings. The note invites customers to compare prices with rivals while praising local patronage and the town’s bright day. Men boys and children's clothing are marketed as low cost compared with past prices.
Mary Love Buck 1867 Death in Princess Anne County
Mary Love Buck dies at her mother's home in Princess Anne County on June 17 1867 at age four. The obituary notes her devoted mother sister and many relatives and friends mourn her loss.
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Buck
Princess Anne County
Mary
Love Buck
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Gail Borden Eagle
Ine
Mroon
Ov. F. Rogers
Columbla
Grangy ST
Ten Bonis
Virginia Beach
Fromune
W.H. HL. Trice & Co
Eal Estate and Rental Agents
Corner Bank and
Plume Streets
Yarmouth
Duke, Bailey
York St
Chapel St
I Walke
Cottngs Place
Maikland St
Granby St
Arlington Place
Holt
Riley, Wealtby Avenue
Charlotte Street
Pen Omein
Talbot St
Church St
Queen ‘St
Granby
Hares
Main St
Ands West Market Square
Norfolk, W
Norfolk and Old Point
Bessie Guy
Burk’s
Funeral Services
Onte
Alaska
J. CM. Graham
Bucklen
Clerk's
Granda Jury
Dad
Sulta
Liem Fale
Laundry Company
Chaartered
Thoeree
Supreme Court
Local Interest
Atlantic
Clit
DR. Pierces
Juis
Foster Black
Ghko
T. Tilley
the Manufacturer's Clothing Co
Manufacturer's Clothing Co
Postoffice
P. Katzenstein
Elias Ball
A. S. Briggs & CO
Down ‘Town
Commerce Street
Yoards
Tata
Taylor & Loyall
A. J. Whitehurst
Charlotte and
Granby Streets
J. B. Constable, Jr
East Endies Tea O
Philadelphia
Mettowee
the. Cooper Marble Works
Banke Storfolk
Robert F. Holmes & CO
Pion ES
A. FE. Hall & Co
Walter H. Wall
Prop’r
Brigg’st
von Wahl
J. KR. Briggs
Chofee
Malin Street
Morb Sougrea
Walter J. Simmons & Cos
Ail Main Street
Isc
OA. E. Jenkins
Jielp
Oliver’s
J. W. Gamage
W. N. Waller
Gamage & Waller
the Bridge
Hyegeia
Old Point
Pike
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