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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1897
Page
5
Richard Stevens a respected colored man died instantly near Dreweysville Northampton county yesterday after a wagon wheel struck a stump causing a cartridge to fire. The accident occurred while a group polled on a deer stand with Stevens traveling in a road cart carrying the guns.
Following a council resolution, Port Norfolk will lower a track at Am Street and Web- Flor Avenue. A work crew began yesterday and will need several days to finish. Upon completion, Park View and County Street lines will be conserved.
The new hook and ladder truck built by Babcock Manufacturing of Chicago, sixty feet long with ten ladders including an eighty foot aerial, arrives Monday for Portsmouth Hook and Ladder. It includes two extinguishers and features first class equipment. Navy Yard notes promise auxiliary mains to improve fire response. ensign Dayton returns to Ohio on three months leave. A fatal accident at Pinners Point rail yard claims a colored arc greaser named Jack Ryans. Excursionists from Southampton foresee a crop failure in the Dennart tell? region and a clothing and furniture sale is advertised by Anderson & Thompson with discounted draperies and Chenille items.
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