Womanhood a staple article in the era talk
A Suffolk column reflects on womanhood as a defining phase for youth, mixing poems and remarks from speakers. It cites Victoria Keithrone’s glory, echoes of love, and views on women’s creator role while threading local anecdotes and brief notices on crimes, marriages, and community events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suffolk
Chowan Baptist Tute
Afurfreesboro
N. C
Petty
Holy World
Pope Mous
Victoria Keithrone
Hampshire
Mastan
Iease
Mtera- S
Anvi
Ivan
Oman
eLove
Newport News Disorderly Court and Yacht Race Notes
In Hastings Court M McLaughlin license bid for a multiquor saloon faced opposition from Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. Hearing postponed to Friday. Police Court dispatched numerous disorderlies with fines. Mrs Barrett case adjourned to June 2. Ideal vs Six Brothers yacht race postponed to June 6 over ten miles near Point Breeze and Warwick Park. La Grande Duchesse crew discharged. 70 sailors left for New York. Duchesse to be laid up six months. Lemuel B Wheeler and Mary J Scott wed at groom’s home with Rev. R W Motley officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport News
Hastings
M. McLaughlin
Thirty-seventh Street
Lafayette Avenue
Messrs. Toffman Bros
Newport News Ship-building and Dry-dock Company
Andrew Jackson
Ed. Williams
Charles Holmes
Ernest Winston
Joe HH
Lee
Tom Jones
Gillam Tlobus
KB. C. Roberts
Charles Huches
Barrett
The
Ideal
Six Brothers
Plain View
Point Breeze
Warwick Park
Plant Line
Nw York
Lemuel B. Wheeler
Mary J. Scott
Twenty Eighth Street
R. W. Motley
Mother Dies by Jumping From Brooklyn Tenement Roof
Mrs Elizabeth Hennigg leapt from a three story Brooklyn tenement with her four month old child in her arms. She was killed instantly while the baby survived unharmed. Officials attributed the suicide to ill health and distress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Elizabeth Hennigg
Brooklyn
Police Court Fines and Forgery Cases Highlight City Docket
In a busy police court session, W. C. Meggs was arraigned on embezzlement and fined 25 dollars with an appeal and $50 bail. Perjury charges against two others were dropped. Womyn and Davis faced forgery charges after a clothing-store check fraud scheme involving a Bank of New Bern draft. The court delayed several cases including larceny of a railroad barrel and numerous youth offenses while Johnson received six months for assaulting a former officer but was released on bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Meges
King Coffee Company
Godwin
W. W. O'Brien
J. E. Robertson
Meggs
Ai. B. Davis
Conyers
George Duke
Davis
Dodyers
Globe Clothing House
Main Street
First National Bank
Newberne
O. I. Welthington
William Davis
Norfolk, Vir- Kinik Beach and Southern Railroad Company
Frank Nash
Willey Thomas
Walter Armstrong
James PT. Garrison
Charles Johnson
Cayunkuph
Johnson
Corporation Court
Frank P. Simpson
Ball
Assignment deal filed by store dealer to trustees
John TY Moward of Bank street assigns stock of goods and mixtures to W J Baxter Jr and C W J Lane as trustees. After trust and rent, preferred creditors include Edward Spalting 60, Ivor A Page 757, Co Adkisson 475, P FF Howard 360. Other creditors to share pro rata. Liabilities exceed 1600. assets not stated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John TY. Moward
Bank Street
W. J. Baxter, Jr
C. W. J. Lane
Brantor
Edward Spalting
Ivor A. Page
Co. Adkisson
P. Ff.howard
Suit and verdicts involving debt and estates in Norfolk
Edward Vander Meersehen sues A Croonenburghs for debt seeking $500. Norfolk Trust Co. sues A S Martin. verdict for plaintiff $1,427.85. Norfolk Trust Co. sues Ellen D Puller administratrix. verdict for plaintiff $1,427.88.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Vander Meersehen
A. Croonenburghs
Norfolk Trust Company
A. S. Martin
Ellen D. Puller
Property Transfers and Restrictions in Atlantic City Area
Anna TL Morris transfers riparian and ml interest in Ma hone's Lake from Arlington Place to Holt street bridge for 325 dollars with a nuisance restriction on oyster packing removed. J P Andre Mottu transfers eight Lewellyen lots in Atlantic City Ward to Philip Rogers for 3200 dollars. Louisa Sampson transfers interest in a lot with improvements on Magazine Lane’s east side to Joseph D McCarrick and W V W Dey for 70 dollars.
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Anna TL
Morris
J. A. Mack Immle
Mahone's Lake
Arlington Place
Holt Street Bridge
J. P. Andre Mottu
Philip Rogers
Surry County
Lewellyen
Atlantic City
Louisa Sampson
Joseph D. McCarrick
W. V W. Dey
Magazine Lane
Court arrests man in Gloucester county for tampering with mails
Deputy Marshal Cross yesterday arrested Thomas Lewis a negro in Gloucester county charged with tampering with the mails Lewis was locked up in Norfolk jail Judge Hughes heard a further report in Walker Manufacturing company vs the Norfolk and Ocean View railroad The petit jury was called and adjourned at 10 40 this morning
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cross
Thomas Lewis
Gloucester County
Lewis
Norfolk
Hughes
Walker Manufacturing Company
Norfolk and Ocean View Railroad
Provincetown Fishers Return After Fog Stranding
Sixteen crew members of the Provincetown schooner J. P. Johnson arrived in Provincetown after straying on the western bank last Friday. They endured hunger, rowed toward La Have, Nova Scotia, and were rescued by the Norwegian bark China before being transferred to the I. B. Merritt, Jr. and reaching port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Provincetown
Mass
J. P. Johnson
la Have
N. S
Nova Scotia
China
Anderson
Hamburg
I. B. Merritt, Jr
Boston
Johnson
Merritt
Race Point
Salem church lecture and local notices from Kempsville area
Rev BR Bennett lectured at Salem church near Kempsville under Epworth League auspices. Election day urges voting. Heptinstalls move to 1414 Maple Ave. Trinity MBE lawn party tonight at Clay and Claiborne. Annie Bradford to live at 164 Mariner St. Chessman and Wilson married in N C now reside in Gilmerton. Inasmuch Circle meets 4 PM at Mrs J C Norsworthy’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BR. H. Bennett
Salem Church
Kempsville
Epworth League
Virginia Beach
Jackson Light Infantry
J. Ll. Heptinstall
East Highland Avenue
Maple Avenue
Young Ladies of
Trinity M. BE. Church
Clay and Claiborne Avenues
Annie Bradford
Reservoir Avenue
Mariner Street
Ropersville
N. C
Simon Chessman
John Wilson
Gilmerton
King’s Daughters
J. C. Norsworthy
North Park Avenue
The Sewerage Question in Brambleton
A Brambleton property owner argues against sewerage funding via increased taxes. He warns of higher rents, street damage, and poor returns, urging bonds for streets and lights instead. He cites only four fire alarm boxes and deplorable streets, predicting regret if the measure passes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk Virginian
Grambleton
Brambleton
iWaubleton
Kelly
Park
Highland
Clay
Willoughby
Granville
Brambleton Avenue
Vote for leverage in Brambleton sewer question
A 1897 Norfolk Virginian advice column urges Brambleton citizens to vote in favor of sewerage tomorrow. The correspondent stresses public health, progress, and community welfare over personal prejudice, urging decisive support for the sanitary measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brambleton
Norfolk
The
Virginian
Womanly health and motherhood in Dr. Pierce ads
A Victorian style advertisement extols female vitality, linking childbearing to health and happiness. It touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for uterine and hormonal weakness, claims vast patient testimonials, cites a Va. woman's praise, and promotes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for headaches and constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebecca Gardner
Grafton
York Co
Golden Medical Discovery
Pierce
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GOS
Chowan Hat Female Institute
Wileng
Saturn A. Nichinas
Aonally
Peel Grea
Orban
Ain
Sleepy Hole
Welling
Wéelc Bayage
Richmond
Peel
Hfoulki
Smithfield
Yard
Tslam
Roberts
Cofer
Beable
Barnum
Thomas
Sult
Smitheld Club
Ben Blanchard
Norfolk and Carolina
R. O. Riddick
Gates County
R. J. Nortleet
John W. Ames, Jr
Blanchard
Christian Church
W. W. Ballard
Indies’ Societies
Church
Junius Hodges
Susie Savage
David Wopes
Mary Jane Alfriend
Ibert Barnes
Henry Ixelley
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Ladius
Waola
John Mr. Shepherd
G. 8. Prp
Holland
Prank Whaley
W. J. Brown
Louise Jenkins
Maio Bailey
Alle McGuire
Virginian Jenkins
A. W. Eley
GC. W. Lasiter
United States Court
J.C. Hubbard
Rosa
Tl. WH. Whittey
Isle of Wight
Wilbur FP. Disosway
H. Crausby
Kerr St
Tenn
Tork
Fin‘ally
Juno Sah
Uuhuet
W. C. Megs
Legnl
John T. Howard Ragsigan
Lawn and Chancery Court
Sape
Brambelevon
N. K. Fairbank Company
S J. Louis
Philadelphia
Chicago
OUR
Rons
Portland
LEE US
Acme Cement
New NO
Water Street
Batchelder and Collins
AST
Eless
Galatia
Paris Medicine Co
Loula
GROVE
Threa Press
Cann & CH
Pozzoni
Bimow
Wholesale and Retail Druggista
Market Square
Portsmouth
Pekin Brambieton
Ss. LF Kfoster
Plume Street
Montebello
Maryland
Washington
R. R
Inoxville
Tazewele
Clarke
Tazewell
APON
Great North Mountain
WM H
Sale
Capon Eprings
W. Va
Malilm
Ocean View
Atlant‘ic
Ocean View Hotel
Chesapeake
Harles
John
Malit
Daggers
University OF Vlawinis
Justice Hurton
U 3
Supreme Guart
Bos
RK. C. Milo
Seer Star Charlottes
Ile
Cowummdla Business College
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington, Va
Board of Visitors
Wll
Scott Ship
Mott
Eurn
J. M. FP
Trotter
B’st
Church Streets
Norfoll, Wn
Livse
Sjirlog
Tndinna
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