Massachusetts Avenue Auction Ad Confusing List of Furnishings
A fragmented sale notice lists numerous furniture items and appliances to be offered at 631 to 639 Massachusetts Avenue. Items include brass beds, cribs, go carts, rockers, oak and mahogany bookcases, couches, lounges, refrigerators, ice chests, and related goods with scattered brand names and descriptions. The garbled text suggests a catalog-style listing rather than a narrative, with multiple product types and incomplete details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rattan
Verona
Edson
Refrigerator
New Columbia
Belding
Norfolk Police Commission Sparks Court Ruling
Circuit Judge Robert B. Prentis in Suffolk declares Charles Consolvo legally a council member and approves two police commissioners, Wood and Shultice, named by the old Norfolk council whose term expired July. He notes the law limits council influence on salaried posts and asserts the case heads to the Supreme Court of Appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Pont
Richmond
Charlie H.consorvo
Select Council
Norfolk
Robert W. Shultice
Sean Wood
Suffolk
Robert B. Prentis
Prentis
Consolvo
Board of Police Commissioners
Messrs. Wood and Shultice
Supreme Court of Appeals
Baptist Associations Convene Across Virginia in August
Reports from Fairfax Warren and surrounding counties note the Ketocton Association session ending in Bethel Church with Elder Joseph Thompson elected moderator. The Potomac Baptist Association plans a meeting August 17 at Long Branch Church near Middleburg with 52 churches and about 6000 members. The Staunton River Primitive Baptist Association closed at Mount Ararat Church near Chatham after a weekend gathering drawing several thousand attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Rt
Fairfax
Ketocton Association of Regular Baptists
Bethel Church
Ketocton Association
Clarke
Warren
Rappahannock
Page
Shenandoah
Fauquier
Madison
Virginia
Joseph Thompson
Walter T. Oliver
Widters Wiliam Buff
Liberty
John Huff
Luray Va
Vb. MeInturff
Strasburg
J. P. Shafer
New Market
J. M. Ashworth
Point Pleasant
Kenmore
Warrenton
Potomac Baptist Association
Baptist
Loucoun
Prince William
Stafford
Alexandria
Culpeper
Long Branch Church
Middleburg
W. H. Council
Marshall
A. W. Graves
Falls Church
Chatham
Quakers in Session at Goose Creek Quarterly Meeting
A Goose Creek quarterly meeting of the Society of Friends began at Lincoln and will run two days with delegates from Fairfax and Frederick counties and other areas. Nearby First-day School Union activities were led by E. B. Gregg and Martha J. Brown. Also local obituaries note Alfred A. Brown of Chesterfield County and Lemuel Segar of Widewater, plus deaths in Roanoke and East Radford, with interments planned in Marion and Richmond.
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Society of Friends
Loudoun County
Washington Post
Leesburg
Goose Creek
Lincoln
Waterford
Hopewell
Frederick County
Woodlawn
Washington
D. C
Fairfax
Frederick
Fairfax Quarterly Meeting
E. B. Gregg
Martha J. Brown
Richmond
Alfred A Brown
Chesterfield County
Fredericksburg
Lemuel Segar
Widewater
Stafford County
Roanoke
Wileanora Poudre
Thomas Foudis
Marion
Thomas Priddy
Norfolk
Joanna G. Pratt
R.A. Pratt
J. M. Webb
Portsmouth
Thomas Fisher
Richard Fisher
Henry Casey
Maggie Fisher
Ethel Fisher
Death of Stephen S. Dalgarn Shocks Charlestown Community
Stephen S. Dalgarn, a leading Charlestown merchant, bank director and church deacon, died suddenly last night at age sixty from heart failure likely due to Brights disease. Survived by his wife, a son and two brothers Lucas of Charlestown and Charles of Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tnion
L. Dehy
Methodist Church
Seictating
Charlestown
W. Va
Stephen
Dalgarn
Bright
Bank of Charlestown
Presbyterian Church
Lucas
Charles
Philadelphia
FOOLED WITH ARMY RIFLE SHOCKS VIRGINIA FAMILY
A 15 year old Willie L Wrenn of Berkley lost his right hand and badly injured his right leg in an old army rifle explosion at his home. A nearby child was lightly injured by flying fragments. The relic rifle had been kept as a family keepsake and the boy did not know it was loaded. His condition is reported as critical.
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Washington
Norfolk
Willie L. Wrenn
Berkley
Cyrus Spence
Port Norfolk
Wrenn
Sixteen Measures Pass in West Virginia Extra Session
West Virginia Governor White approved many bills from an eighteen day extra session costing taxpayers 20000. Highlights include tax reform bills expanding license taxes on liquor and gun dealers, estate and collateral inheritance taxes, real estate reassessment, state tax commission creation, and caps on education levies. Also reorganized insane asylums, court salaries, prison transport reforms, and stricter vital statistics rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Charleston
W. Va
White
West Virginia
State Reform School
Weston
Spencer
Exer
Chester Independent School District
Secretary of State
State Tax Commissioner
Boards of Education
State Penitentiary
Sage of Bleak Hill Dies Prominent Virginia Jurist
Obituary notes the death of Hon. Peter Saunders of Bleak Hill near Rocky Mount Virginia at age eighty two. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1883 84 and helped build the Episcopal Church of the Ascension. Survived by four children and his wife who died earlier. Funeral held amid large crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Rocky Mount
Sage
Bleak Hill
Peter Saunders
Saunders
House of Delegates of
Virginia
Jubal Harry
Third shark caught near Annapolis ends in barroom clash
In Charleston West Virginia Alonzo Hammack mistook Policeman Abbott for an attacker and slashed his cousin John Summers in a Summers barroom disturbance. Summers suffered two deep back wounds and is believed fatally injured. Officer Abbott sustained a severe wrist injury. Hammack was arrested. The cousins were thought to be on friendly terms.
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Washington Post
Petersburg
Tidewater Railroad Company
Corps of
Civil Engineers
West Virginia
City Jarretts
Sussex County
Atlantic Coast Line
Deep Water
Norfolk
Southampton County
Bains Tavern
Vicksville
Alonzo Hammack
Abbott
Charleston
W. Va
Alonzo Bammack
John Summers
W. E. Nutter
Summers
Hammack
SHORT DRIVE TO MATRIMONY IN TWO STATES
Elopement leads to marriage at Sandy Hook with license arranged in Hagerstown. Besse L Amey of Kearneysville and John Foster of Sandy Hook wed at Robert Jenkins residence with a waiting minister, despite parental opposition.
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Washington
Hagerstown
Mias
Besse L. Amey
Kearneysville
John ¥. Foster
Sandy Hook
Robert Jenkins
Lcense
Frederick Cole
Baltimore and Ohio
Keep Trust
Washington Post
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Jesse ¥ Y. Foster
Washington County
Hessle L Amey
Jefferson County
Keep
Trust by Rev J R Wood of Harpers Ferry Methodist
A sermon on trust delivered by Rev J R Wood of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Harpers Ferry Virginia outlines faith, duty, and steadfast confidence in divine guidance. The piece emphasizes practical applications of trust in daily life and community service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Harpers Ferry
Wva
Wiliam Houston Tittlepage
Arkansas
Louella Prouty Knapp
Wisconsin
W. Va
J Wood
Methodist Episcopal Church
Ashington
D. C
J R Wood
The
Conductor Arrested for Freight Car Robberies in Salisbury
Salisbury Aug 15 Conductor J D Phillips of Spencer was arrested at his home on the charge of robbing freight cars on the Southern Railway. Police seized two new typewriters and bolt goods on his premises. Bond set at 1000 he awaits a preliminary hearing Saturday morning.
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Brunswick
Washington Post
Boyd's
Herman Rodey
Baltimore and Ohio
Irving
Rodey
Potomac Logge, B. Rk, T
Southern Railway
Salisbury
J D. Phillips
Spencer
Connelly
Hance
Dave Julian
J A @Sheroff
Philips
Phillips
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General Furniture Department
Massachusetts Avenue
Onier
Volour
Seaton
Awe Ae Wae
Damask
damdSk
Crewees
Pitern
Board of Councils
Gatherings OF Baptists
Ao Het
Quakers
Willie Wrenn
NEW Railroad
Wabash
Lynchburg
Warrington Post
RS. Walker
Maude Walker
Stephen C. Hurt, Jr
C. J. Latchford
James River
Washington Fort
Keaton & Reed
Check
Floyd County
Hosea Custer
Fairfax & Beil
Congress
Frederickeburg
Howard Hathaway
Lancaster County
Joseph Raymond
State Tax Commission
Ninetan Bret
Rockville
Harry H. Hoffman
Mise Hisie M. Rayner
S.R. White
D. W. Campbell
Washington Pr
Norfolk, Va
J. D. Campbell
Campbell
Speciata
George W. Rockefeller
Mobjack Bay
North River
Plainfield
N. J
John D. Rockefeller
Dinwiddie County Court House
Leonard D. Yar Tell
R. Southald
Didates
Sage OF
Washington Frost
George E. Wawards
Colesville
Justice of the Peace
Joseph
David ¢. Kennedy
Edwards
Kennedy
Boyds
Republican District Committee
Clarksburg
W. W. Cronenburg
Christopher B. Watkins
Zach Woodfield
J. W. Boyer
Annapolia
Tne
Washington Pest
Annapolis
Margaret Co. Anderson
New York
Bertram J. Harbin
Washington, D. C
Kelly Hobbs
Heastport Baptist Church
Plorence Martin
Harry King
Maryland Avenue M. E
Ocean City
Chesapeake Bay
Annapolis, Md
Maryland
H. Littlepage
Louella P. Knapp
Charlotte Bank
Washington Port Charlotte
N. C
John H McAden
Merchants and Farmers’ National Bank
Charlotte
Dr. Lyon
E & Lyon
Dixon
Byslness
Raleigh
F Dixon
North Carolina
Grand Army of the Republic
Boston
Bessemer City
John Lewis
J. McWhirt
Spottsylvania
N.C
Lewis
Bradfield Regulator Co
Atlanta
Ma Nain
Ther
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