Colored Bazaar Supports Empty Stocking Fund
A charity bazaar by Peabody High School Girls’ Literary Industrial Club runs at Wilkerson Hall Tuesday and Wednesday night with a Box Party feature. Fancy articles will be sold to aid the Empty Stocking Fund as Christmas shoppers seek bargains locally. Notables like Rev James S Russell and Mrs Agnes Moody Hudgins appear in society notes alongside funeral notices and church events.
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Mothers’ Clubs
Wilkerson Hall
Girls’ Literary-Industrial Club
Peabody High School
East Ward
Jones Street
James S. Russell
Colored Work
Southern
Virginia
St. Paul's Normal School
Lawrenceville
St. Stephen’s F. E
Russell
Agnes Moody Hudgins
South Adams Street
Mattie Reese
Mollie Loftin
Carter Street
Heartwell Tucker
Johns
Zion Baptist Church
J. B. Brown
Virginia Union University
Elizabeth Lewis Johnson
Edward
Helen
Annie G
Matthew
Janes Bland
Julius Lewis
John Myers
Henry Powell
Irving Walker
Bernard White
Vast View
Hase
Fannie Booker
Mary Dandridge
Janes Street
Myre
India Walker
Gill Street
Ceorts Murniford
Ju Baylor Street
Crowder Memorial Hospital
Gentral Presbyterian Church
Ministers’ Conference
J. W. Broadday
Kentucky
Thoreuch Institution
Richmond
Harrison Street Baptist
Cnerraig
Psaams
Isis
Gedig Man
Jed
Frery
Mark Binote
Man's War on Wild Things in Indiana Reserve
A reflection on drastic declines in wild fowl across Indiana due to marsh drainage and spring shooting. The Galt reservation vanished as a refuge, cranes and geese dwindled, and widespread hunting with powerful shotguns is cited as driving these losses. The piece laments the near disappearance of once abundant species like waterfowl and passenger pigeons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Galt
United States
Why Few Women of Genius Rise to First Rank
A lecturer argues that women have had equal opportunity yet face historical bias. He says modern inventions ease domestic duties and broaden odds for female genius. The piece critiques narrow debates on gender, noting suffrage is a step, not the end, and calls for openness to women's advancement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Womn
Luis
Tully
Mars and Money: Hope Amid High Living Costs
A fragmented early 20th century style piece discusses relief from rising costs via science and Mars theories. It mentions low rates, wartime finance, and speculative ideas about transport and industry, with references to professors and distant futures. The passage blends conjecture with economic worry.
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Mars
al Lowell
Gunals
Marsalby
Warden Pauches
Earth
Train Schedule Fragments From Rich and N' Lines
Daily timetable bits show arrival and departure times for Rich and N' routes with various connections. Officials C.D. Smith G. T. Allan B. Cooper T. A. note time not guaranteed and Sunday service omitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Depotty. Agpo
M. Rich
Way & Rich
Or. Way & Rich
A.m
South
Rich
C.D. Smith
G. T. All
B. Cooper
T. A
Train schedule notes for Atlanta Birmingham Florida Points
A fragmentary schedule lists train departures from Market Street Station with times for Local South Local North and Through Train South. It references Atlanta Birmingham and Florida Points with specific departure times in the early morning and afternoon.
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Petersburg
Pullman
Norfolk
Sts. Dona
Pullman Sleeper
Lynchburg
Chicago
Cincinnati
Columbus
Bristol
Roanoke
Imaing
Farmville
Lyruhburg
Beaford
Broiler
Gervica
Hosnoke
City Point
Hopewall
Dunlop Street
BSG
Richmond
Atlanta
Birmingham
Florida
Toav Ni
Market Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
Petersburg Savings and Insurance Co
Vosoursh Lumber Co
Ecco
I. Roper
Pocahontas
N. and
V.w
Sycamore Street
Eultrod
France
Tesr
hetTheusga
Alliss
Peti Thompson
Rita Hy Guish
Yipes
Rte Loans Sratingn Toy
Rodgers, Plummer & Co., Inc
Virginias
Petersburg Laundry
N. Sycamore
J. S. Walthall
J. C. Southall, JR
Leigh Building
A. Gellman
Pawnbrokens and Clothiers
Alg
Boliingbrock
Baltingproch Street
Moore Shafer
E. SentFer
Snen
Tor B. Keith
Ha Diack
Hermien Army
Ugiogali
L. C. Nunnally
Transportation Lines
Sundey
C. B. Periins
City
Pasa
C Saunders
Gen. Pasa
B. Bevill
Roanoka
Dominion
Petersburg City Point
New York
Petarsburg
Norfolk and Western
Old Dominion Fast
Northern
Europsenporta
AAM
Jes
Nor “K
City Oint
Newport Newa
Claremont
Rive
VA. Navigation Company
James River
Newport News
Old Point
Scotland
Jamestown
Laramont
Emporia
S. B
Cusoint
James River Landing
Eturn
James M. Gallagher
B. Walker
Pres, & G. M
N.Y
Atlantic Coast Lin Standard Railroad of the
Seaboard Air Line
Petersburg & Appomattor Railway CO
Wythe
Syveamore
Hopewell
Conner’s Crossing
J. A. Baird
General Sunt
Virginia National Bank
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