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Norfolk Street Notes and City Affairs Highlights
Various Portsmouth and Norfolk items include intracity updates on people attending fairs in Raleigh and Norfolk, court actions, local accidents, and civic events. Reports mention Mrs. Jenkins and Master Harry Rodgers at the Raleigh fair, the Grand Camp Confederate Veterans gathering in Richmond, and Joseph Brown’s murder trial prep. Local improvements, church meetings, and notices from Owens Memorial Church, the Democratic Executive Committee, and the Y M C A also appear amid ongoing park and street enhancements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Thomas Jenkins
Harry Rodgers
Daniel Parker
Willis A. Jenkins
Farmville
A. E. Owen
Mattie Capps
Wilmington
N. C
Norfolk
Park
Grand Camp
Richmond
Misa Mojile-Selletter
Galthmore
Portsmouth
Frank Hodges
Court Street Baptist Church
A. BB. Owen
William Schmoele, Jr
F. P. Nash
Becn
George Cornicl
Jalil
Moody Cornick
Joseph Brown
Democratic Executive Committee
Norfolk County
Madison Hotel
Joseph O'Connor
United States Navy
Philadelphia
Ray
County Street
Middle
Columbian
Kirn Hall
Owens Memorial Church
Cromwell
Shea
Hewlett
Louis Morris
South Street
Misa Eva Pruden
South Street Baptist Church
Wiliam Smith
L. Lush
Court Street Presbyterian Church
Eggleston
Fredericksburg
Presbyterian Synod of
W. Frank Beverly
Hoston
House of Johnson Bros. & Co
Beverly
Ascension
Columbian Park
Fourth Street Baptist Church
W. H. Stewart
Major Crocker
John W. A. Porter
Confederate Veterans
J. 41
Richardson
C. W. Walker
Board of Health