Terms of the Virginian and Advertising Rates
The Daily Virginian outlines delivery areas Norfolk and surrounding cities with weekly ten cent carriers and mail options. Rates for the Virginian publications, weekly and monthly prices, advertising charges per square, and reading notices are listed, plus New York office contact and a disclaimer about rejected communications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Berkley
Suffolk
West Norfolk
Newport News
United States
BOL
New York
Ralph Mekel
Times Building
New York City
Pen and public life gossip from late 19th century papers
A column collects scattered notes on politics and society. Mentions five years penal servitude for a bicycle thief in England, McKinley administration aims, tariff debates, and various political opinions. It notes letters about consular appointments, a new Texas House leader Bailey, and foreign policy chatter about Greece and Cuba.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
United States Jubilee Suggests Ex Presidents as Envoys
The piece argues sending Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison to England as special envoys for Queen Victoria’s jubilee. It praises the Queen’s sixty-year reign and notes ex presidents as fitting representatives amid American admiration for Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Harrison
England
United States
Queen's Trallee
America
Victoria
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Southern export trade shift to Southern ports affirmed
The Philadelphia Times argues that export diversion from Northern to Southern ports will be permanent due to shorter rail hauls. It says grain from Kansas Nebraska Missouri and Illinois now reaches Southern ports saving at least 600 miles and that geography will keep the traffic away from New York, despite any Interstate Commerce Commission appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Philadelphia Times
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Southern Town
Olinois
Seaboard
New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
Warning on tariff energy shapes Republican stance in 1890s press
The Indianapolis News criticizes upheld tariff plans as extravagant and warns Republicans in Congress to resist high duties. It recalls the 1890 campaign and asserts McKinley Hanna policies force price rises via tariffs, not dollar devaluation, urging courage to oppose the Dingley bill. It notes administration and Speaker Reed delaying appointments until tariff passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis News
McKinley
Congress
Hanna
Major McKinley
Reed
Beauty to Woman and the Press Debate
An essay in The Washington Post challenges the common use of terms like beautiful and charming for women. It argues such wording unfairly labels many women and misrepresents individual character in modern journalism.
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Washington Post
Beauty varies. debuts not sole measure of charm
The article argues beauty is not essential to a hostess or a woman’s charm. It praises natural character over looks, noting many attractive women lack beauty and vice versa. It urges appreciation of inner grace, kindness, and personality beyond physical appearance.
Notable Highlights From Around the World
Ex-Ambassador Bayard sends his favored English saddle horse to this country. In Scotland Epicscape church members rise from 75 to 321 over six decades. Spain reports 22,500 tobacco stores and 21,156 women in tobacco factories. Mandalay fire destroys 1,509 houses, leaving 7,000 homeless. loss estimated at £100,000. Leeds finishes a giant sewing machine for attaching cotton belting, weighing five and 11 quarter tons. London to Edinburgh railway 400 miles. summer tracks stretch 210 yards longer due to heat. Siberian railway progress hints at a saved 1,000 miles. trains expected within two years.
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Bayard
Epicscape
Scotland
Spain
Mandalay
Burmah
Leeds
England
London
Edinburgh
Personalities and notes from the era on officials and events
Mr Gladstone works on Olympian Religions as empire destiny theory. William S Cramer continues fifty years at Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin as editor owner. Henry G Thurber returns to Detroit to resume his profession. Rev J Courtney Jones plans a Concordance of the Episcopal mayor-book. Bonfires planned across Britain for Queen coronation anniversary. Steinitz released from Moscow asylum after mental strain during match. Miss Blanche Werard resigns West Point postmastership due to illness and age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladstone
William S. Cramer
Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin
Henry G. Thurber
Meavelaml
Detroit
J. Courtney Jones
Virginia
Great Britain
Steinitz
Moscow
Blanche Werard
United States Military Academy
West Point
Fashionable Tailoring at Popular Prices
New patterns in fancies arriving with every shipment replace sold stock. Tailor shop volume exceeds expectations this season as up-to-date textures and measurements guarantee accurate fits. Special orders and wholesale cost basis appeal to Practical Economists, boosting names on the measure book.
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Norfolk —Virginian
Mr. Glennan, Owreor
Virginian
Carolinian
Agrfolk, VA
Baiduilaly
Washington
Senator Quay
Penneylvania
Florida
Quay Haints
Mclxinley
Dingley
New York Times
New York Journal
Senate
Jack Andrews
Richmond
Melinley
Lee
Alexandria Gazette
House
Bailey
Texas
Baltimore Sun
William J. “i Wilson
Greece
St. Louisa
New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial
Wdvertiser
Chicago News
Tigi Sherman
New
Ees
Beauty
Indies
Hood
Coal and Woop
Gomeion
Kochi
Geo. W. Taylor & Co
Granby Street
Nthall
Central Wharf
Water St
Batchelder & Collins
Business College
Oplaciey
Atlanta, Ga
South
A. C. Briscoe
J. M. Ressler
Princepal
Burrow, Martin
Main St
Brambleton
Atlantic City
Worfolk
Browne & Co
Thomas W. Browne
John Whitehead
No. 117
Main Street
Norfolk Printing Co
the Norfolk Printing Co
Malin Street
Woorford No. 2
CIA Dominion Paper Co
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