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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1897
Page
3
Advertises checked and striped muslins and India linens with various prices. Embroideries and other fresh goods offered at about two percent off value. Call and inspect them at Wrights 370 Main Street.
Mr J J Mareis of Slarris Springs reports Seaboard Air Line president endorses Tlatris Lithia Water as the best lithia water he has used. It has cured much, valued as a remedy. Sold by M I Dodson at Atlantic Hotel and Burrow Martin & Co.
The Corpora tion Court’s May docket includes major shootings Ryan and Lewis and the Duman assault case with Capps set for the tenth and Hy and Duman later. Yesterday the docket was brief with Jones jailed thirty days for stealing chickens and Pearl White given six months for theft. Notables: George L. White qualified as notary public. Deputy sergeant summons issued for a long jury list. Bettle Newby died in Petersburg insane asylum. Hawkins injured while fleeing police and hospitalized after attempting to avoid trephining his skull.
Special commissioner at the Steal Estate Exchange sold the diyslop farm in Princess Anne county for 25000. Buyer named Ain. BLOF. Harrison. The sale followed a bid by W. H. Trice & Co and involved Wt. Mesers.
The baseball editor thanks Mr C. H. Streame for a fine picture of Norfolk's sixteen new players described as a handsome, capable group. Each member is an “comer” and they can play ball to burn, making a strong team overall.
The Virginian urges readers to collect portraits titled Our Heroes And Our Flags offered for ten cents plus a two cent mailing fee. Images feature Confederate leaders and the Magi associated with their era, with a coupon in another column to order by mail.
Postponed basketball matchup between the Tymmies and Cinnts noted for Friday night as members of the Mekemle League plan events at asset front hall on Thursday evening. A junior exhibition is set for Tuesday afternoon in the gym west at 4 periods with Mrs. 21 Witheat of Chicago, associate editor of Men the association organ, visiting since Sunday and leaving for Washington yesterday morning.
An advertisement touts Spring Mediche and Hood's Sarsaparille Brindiy as purifying and vitalizing the blood to strengthen the whole system. It promotes TMOOWS PILLS as the only pills to take with food's Sarsaparilia, claiming cure for the liver.
The Old Dominion Steamship company announces a March first schedule change for Norfolk to Old Point service. Weekday departures from Bay Line wharf 11:80 a.m. and 4 p.m. and from the company wharf on foot Church street at 7:10 p.m. Sundays Bay Line wharf 10 a.m. 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Returns from Old Point on weekdays 9 a.m. 2 p.m. and 1 p.m. Sundays 11:30 a.m. 2:30 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Mme Rosa D'Erin and Mr Vontom headlined a large Montefiore Hall audience in a song lecture recital raising funds for St Vincent's Hospital morgue. Eyina, famed Irish Nightingale, attracted hearty encores along with a varied programme of arias folk tunes and humorous readings.
Georgia Cayvan stars tonight in Saurie Rave at the Lyceum. She returns tomorrow in Mary Pennington Spinster. The Prisoner of Zenda mounted by Daniel W. Lyceum opens Monday at the Academy with full company. tickets go on sale Friday morning.
In Brambleton yesterday many people were out after a five day break. Elia Gill of East Willoughby Avenue recovers from diphtheria and may return home soon. Harry Walton of the City Union Mission moves his family to Hambleton at 101 West Lovitt Avenue. Trinity Epworth League held a literary program last night. American Food and Oil Company, based in Pittsboro Pa with a Reeves Avenue plant near Levitt, began operations but suspended due to unsatisfactory machinery. Oil output was not strong enough units to run better gear. Weatherly expects full operation in a few weeks. A church social is planned at Trinity M church tonight. Funeral of B F Patrick set for Spurgeon Memorial Baptist Church at 5 p.m. Kathe Monnie of Washington D C left for Washington. Pauline Pick of Cooke Avenue visits friends in Washington. J C Perry, former Hast Brambleton Avenue grocer, takes a store corner Maltby and Corprew Avenues recently vacated by B C Hampshire.
Hundreds consult the Chilrvoyant at 14L Thank street and share their pleased reactions. The crowd, impressed by the professor's predicted successes, tells others about the session and recommends attendance.
Burrow Biarton Co offers patent medicines at coat. The brief notice highlights available remedies and the company name connected with the product line.
A business session ends with failed quorum rules as eighteen members are required outside Atlantic City Ward. Various finance and public works items are passed over or referred, including tax refunds and franchise petitions, with several building and sewer projects advancing to future votes.
Local notes list Mr Tiugh Miller and others in town after grip illness. Several visitors from Georgia, Philadelphia, Chicago and Charleston are in the city for family and business reasons. Church events, a hospital update, and funeral plans are noted along with a move by Dr. W Sayers to Bank street and a Baltimore-bound group aboard the Bay Line.
Sold markdowns include men's winter tans at 3.00 and 5.00 entries chemicals. C Burt's ladies shoes cut from 5.00 to 3.00. Items listed under 154 Main street with J. Tuomas & Co, Burrow, Martin & Co offering special sale patent medicines at cost.
Spot cotton in Giverpaal declined with a 1 to 2 percent drop in the late market. Futures closed steady to down slightly in New York with small declines. U S ports receipts reached 17 638 bales while New Orleans estimates ranged 800 to 1 000 bales amid Mardi Gras revelry.
An advertising notice from The Virginian reports Cut Rate Drug Store chains expanding into Norfolk at thePlume and Church streets corner. The ads promise discount prices on perfumes soaps and toilet articles while not filling prescriptions.
A quirky scene features a Con federate remarking to a Yankee about losses at Gettysburg. A Bow in Dytre offers a doll as a nod to shared history, while a Grey soldier receives praise for fighting on that side. The piece blends playful dialogue with wartime nostalgia.
Wisioeds Chaupes and Messrs Wiginton and others, who for twenty years occupied the building at 832 Main Street, Clothiers store, have moved to New Ned Dank Street. The Muth aleet store will be refitted starting today for the occupancy of the new shirt and mens furnishers Aliivens it Taricer.
The revival at Epworth Church led by Dr Leftwich and local Methodist ministers continues to draw Yarce crowds. Nightly audiences fill the church as several short addresses are delivered and conversions are reported.
An advertisement touts Dr. Greene of New York City as a leading female health specialist. It offers free mail consultations to women suffering from weakness, discharges, pains, and irregularities, claiming the mail will cure them and urging readers to write for assessed symptoms.
Fragments describe daily shopping for dress goods and accessories. Mentions influenza of pricing on shirts, cuffs, corsets, sultings, ties and haberdashery, with note of reduced rates from former prices to low sale figures. Indicates color options and wholesale-like pricing in a small-town trade setting.
An advertisement touts a proprietary German process producing a pure cow milk substitute claimed as the only healthy alternative to mother's milk. It urges consulting a physician and notes it is available for retail.
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