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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1897
Page
3
The Hume Minor Co presents Dinondt Spring Water Wagon offering free samples and pure cool water sold by the gallon. C. B. Hodgman lists price at five dollars. delivery may be at Norfolk Virginia address 240 Main St.
A new government naval magazine at Cox's Point on St Julian's Creek has been completed and turned over to the Government. It houses two large shell houses and brick magazines for powder, with space to store enough powder for a year’s voyage, plus gun cotton and officers’ residences. Craney Island will be transferred to the War Department as part of the new arrangement, which covers twenty acres bought for 220000 with an appropriation of 76000 for lands and buildings.
J W Thomas Jr analyzes Norfolk water crisis describing storage limits at the main plant and Lake Lawson and Lake Bradford, urging rapid action to obtain North West River water for a reliable, pure supply within four months, warning of disease risk and urging official results.
Regular monthly meeting at the schoolhouse with President C Brooks Johnston presiding. Improvements reported on Granby Street extended Eleventh Street Princess Anne Avenue and Lewellyn Avenue. Nuisance from standing water discussed tied to Ribble property and street railway poles. Various petitions and contracts approved or referred. adjourned.
At their new residence No 17 Thor mada street Mr Magreve Consolvo and Miss Lilian Leona were joined in marriage by Rev BE Th Hatcher of the First Baptist Church. The ceremony was attended by about forty guests and a collation followed.
Three to four hundred building lots in the growing Norfolk area offered for sale cheap. Also travel notice for Chesapeake and Ohio Railway services to St Louis and Texas. Open houses and night courses advertised at Southern Shorthand and Business University. Call at University Haddington Building for details.
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