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Newspaper

Norfolk Virginian

Location

Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Mar 31, 1897

Page

4

Terms of the Virginian and Virginian publications

The Norfolk Virginian billings describe delivery and pricing for The Daily Virginian and The Weekly Virginian and Cannmtan. It lists delivery areas Norfolk Portsmouth Berkley Suffolk West Norfolk Newport News and rates including 10 cents per week for daily and one dollar per year for weekly.

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Advertising Rates and Notices from The Virginian

Advertising rates list first insertion ten cents per line with subsequent insertions at twelve and a half cents or option for alternate day insertions. Special representative Ralphs Me Ke in Times Building, New York, notes business restrictions and policy. The Virginian disclaims responsibility for return of rejected communications or manuscripts.

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Eight Pages of Society and Opinion Snippets Across Cities

The column mixes charity plans by Springfield society women and satirical United States misstatements. It cites Springfields brave charity event, hints at a Vienna dispatch on troops, notes editorials on civil service law, rail ties, and wool tariffs, and bundles parodic takes on Senator Platt and McKinley.

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Mr. Harrison on Corporations

Ex-President Harrison discusses current corporation laws and calls for revisions limiting corporate purposes and tightening stock and bond issuance. He argues tax burdens should fall on all property while noting lands trades and livestock are harder to hide. He criticizes his party for fostering objectionable corporations and trusts.

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Wool Market Heads for Higher Prices on Duty Proposals

The Wool and Cotton Reporter notes broad wool price expectations due to proposed Dingley duties. Traders in the East and West push purchases, speculating on a final market advance as foreign demand remains strong. London sales may reach 75 000 bales, with farmers urged to prepare for higher costs as wool remains tied to government policy.

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Cousin Osborne decries $12,000 consul post pay

The Hartford Times laments William McKinley Osborne's appointment as Consul General at London once worth $40,000 a year now cut to $12,000 by Cleveland. It notes Osborne's prior offices including Boston Police Commissioner and predicts he will pressure Congress to restore higher pay.

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Protectionist Protest Against Dingley Tariff

The Textile Manufacturers Journal of Philadelphia denounces the Dingley bill as harmful to Republican aims and warns it could harm key wool and woolen interests. It cautions the tariff risks repealing McKinley era gains and urges prudence and moderation within the party.

Textile Manufacturers’ Journal of Philadelphia Republican Party Textile Manufacturers’ Journal

Cretan Port Blockade Complications Raise Shipping Tensions

Reported complications from the blockade of Cretan ports disrupt trade routes and prompt regional authorities to seek quick diplomatic remedies. Shipping delays affect several merchant lines and raise concerns about longer-term supply chains in the Aegean region.

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England faces potential crisis over Crete blockade policy

The article weighs England duty to protect its merchants amid the Crete blockade. It questions Britain's response if allied fleets block ports and fire on a British vessel, risking war with other powers. The Salisbury Ministry bears the burden of a grave, unresolved choice.

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Ocean battleship joins Canopus flags in British navy

Notes and opinions report a new battleship named Ocean under Canopus flags. The British admiralty introduced the vessel with new features, while politics note Republican tariff proposals on corn and wheat and sugar production estimates. Sealing fleet updates record sixteen Newfoundland steamers with eleven reporting 21,000 seals.

Admiralty Virginia Newfoundland North Atlantic

Notable deaths and prominent figures in brief notices

Poor Tim Hussey who found Cripple Creek mines dies penniless in the mining camp hospital. John Twiddulph Martin, London banker who married Mrs. Victoria Woodhull, dies in Las Palmas Canary Islands of pneumonia. Alphonse Bertillon, French inventor of the Bertillon system, supports tax exemption for families with three children. Ex-Empress Warense retains a Spaniard’s scent preference for sandalwood and lemon verbena. Spain’s Queen Regent favors a perfume from cartation blossom scents.

Tim Hussey Cripple Creek John Twiddulph Martin London Victoria Woodhull Las Palmas Canary Toislands Alphonse Bertillon France Bertillon Warense Tregent Spain

Impassioned Night Reflections In A Bourgeois Verse

A poetic fragment depicts a night watch by a roaming star guiding dreams and fading joys. The speaker laments dawn’s chill and solitary sorrow, yet clings to a sovereign law that yields to social cheer. The voice, titled A Bourgeois, expresses ambition stretched to languish and restrained by day.

Fashionable Tailoring Opens Wide With New Patterns

The shop showcases up to date patterns in plaids and overplaids arriving with every shipment. Tailor shop volume exceeds expectations as orders pile up for finishing. The staff emphasizes perfect fits and extensive selection, promising equal care from $15 to $35 price ranges, with wholesale-like costs for measured work.

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