Remarkable Hygeia Hotel to be moved eight miles
A New York trust company holds a deed of 72000 on the Hygeia Hotel at Old Point Comfort Va. Willoughby Spit offers 50000 for the structure if moved intact across Hampton Roads to the spit. The 400 foot frame building faces tides and winds, with engineers planning the perilous transfer before any lifting begins.
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Old Point Comfort Va
United States
Hampton Roads
Willoughby Spit
Lgtle
Hygeia
New York
Bricklaying by Machinery Promises Faster Construction
Commercial Agent F.S. Johnson of Stanbridge Canada reports a new bricklaying machine operated by two men and a boy. It can lay 400 to 600 bricks per hour, handles doors windows and walls for shacks mills sheds and factories, and is said to set bricks more firmly than hand laying. The device could replace six to seven skilled bricklayers and a 60 by 40 feet factory unit might sell for about $000. Operation reportedly requires two weeks’ training.
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F.S. Johnson
Stanbridge
Canada
Hlica Axle Grease and Moral Tales from Pioneer Clergy
A fragmented ancient-style vignette recalls Rev Peter Cartwright lecturing two idle youths about labor on Sunday, urging trust and practical values. The piece blends moral anecdote with short ads for medicines like Foley’s Kidney Cure and Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets from Reinheart’s Pharmacy and Reighart’s Pharmacy.
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Sid
Foley
Reighart
Ink-Stain Remedies and a Virginia Tragedy Tale
A note on removing ink stains with chlorinated soda for quick results. Obituary reports Mrs. Eliza Beso Bean of near Winchester Virginia aged 106, widow of Mordecai Bean. Her husband, a Northern sympathizer, was jailed in 1862 and killed at Salisbury after transfer from Tabby Prison. Bean’s daughter, oldest inmate at Staunton asylum, has been confined there forty years following her father’s death. the mother’s death left her waiting for a reunion that never happened.
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Mordecai Bean
Winchester
Tabby
Salisbury
N. C
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