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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1897
Page
8
Governor Russell faces chatter over a possible sale offer for the Atlantic and North Carolina Railway. News notes include court delays, penitentiary updates, shoe factory history, and local civic events.
Eliza Tickey reports a special Sunday sermon for children at the Baptist church illustrated with seven objects. M J Sawyer relocates Iris saloon from the Albemarle house to the Wood building on Road Street and plans a full dress drill event.
The report notes growing local enthusiasm for Norfolk baseball and hints at the team playing well. Reverends and visiting individuals surface in town, including Rev. Mr. Jumlesy assisting at Broad Street Methodist church, and Det. Coke of Raleigh visiting family in the area.
Baltimore visitors Messrs Dull and Wilkins arrive for business. Next Monday the town election and county commissioners court convene. Local merchants report shipments of Western earn. Superior Court in session at Manteo Dare County. May Day begins with snail hunting omen. Sweethearts may glimpse their aims in a well.
British and American ships arrive and clear for Hamburg and New York. Vessels include Elpis Siamsey Mernan Una Lehr Avette H Perry and many coal lumber and stone cargoes. Notable events: British steamer Laurel Branch arrives Newport News April 28 and A C O runs aground near Mississippi river passes.
Brambleton residents hear plans for ward severance costs and a mass meeting on the issue. Depot construction moves forward with roundhouse and rail upgrades planned. Local pastors visit, baptisms planned at Campostella Bridge, and community figures organize for the youth welfare effort.
The Cineographs on display for three days starting Thursday May will tour the Academy. It promises the greatest moving picture invention with larger, steadier views and life like scenes. See the Black Diamond Express and Niagara Falls among other attractions with popular prices.
A Norfolk druggist display dyed week old chicks with bright eye dyes and placed them with multicolored eggs in the window. The eye catching display drew many sightseers and served as a popular attraction for Burrow, Martin & Co.
Colonel A. Loudon Snowden, once our Minister to Greece, shares his views on the Graeco-Turkish conflict as reported by the Philadelphia Press. He fears Greece may be drawn into a wider war and cautions against escalation while urging prudent diplomacy.
A disbursing officer notes Washington duties while Paine's celery compound is extolled as a spring remedy. The ad-defends Paine's celery compound against unreliable cures, citing Dartmouth professor Edward BE Phelps and widespread trust among professionals for restoring health in tired or run-down individuals.
Narrow fluctuation report shows Liverpool salt and rice prices with weights and grades. Local market lists various futures for sugar, corn, peas, and mill feeds with prices per sack or bushel, noting steady overall trend despite delivery-rate differences to out-of-town points.
The clipping itemizes various seafood prices in per pound and per hundred terms. Items include croakers at 2 cents, taylors 4 cents, pan fish options at varying rates, frying fish at 6 cents, fullets 8 cents, founders and mackerel at de, blue fish de, speckled trout 7 t, red snapper and shad from North Carolina at 20 cents, and herring at 50 cents per hundred.
Market good and good cattle in strong demand with heavy Western cattle sought. Milk cows fromastern North Carolina cannot be sold due to United States quarantine. Prices listed: fat cows 214 per head, 244 inches? bulls 244 per head, dressed hogs 4.50 per pound, lambs 6 to 7 cents per pound. Hogs dull and slow demand.
Fragmentary OCR shows assorted produce pricing terms and units. Items include lemons oranges cabbage onions potatoes and poultry with varied currencies and unclear shop names. Readable entries mention per bag per dozen and per pound pricing amid garbled vendor phrases.
A fragment shows rosin at 2.25 dollars per barrel and turpentine with various prices such as 82.05 per barrel and 2.60 per gallon. Tar is listed at 3.00 per puri barrel, indicating a mixed, unclear OCR from a historical market page.
The listing shows varied peanut prices and grades at the farmers market, including strictly prime and hand picked fancy lots. Several entries reference Spanish Sle and Virginia grades with numbers and small cent values, indicating mixed quality and bulk sizing for sale.
Report covers futures and spot cotton prices in New York and New Orleans with May and August contracts leading. Includes Norfolk eight month receipts, Liverpool weekly sales, and dates, temperatures, and rainfall context for cotton belts.
City Engineer Brooke issued building lines for the month ending yesterday. Readable entries include Mrs I A Quinn on Church Street one brick. I J Nottingham on Ward Avenue one frame. C K Owens on Voss Street one frame. M E W Burk on Grigsby Place two brick. Delia I Male on Bute Street two brick. Mary Clarke on Boush Street one frame. Ola G Webster on Duke Street Extended one frame. total not completed in provided text.
A local fabrics notice highlights striped dimities and yard wide organdies in multiple colors and patterns. Pereales in yard wide sizes are priced at 8c, with good patterns and a phenomenal silk selection for the week. The ad promises many new silk ideas for the season.
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