Buying by Mail Informs Norfolk Shoppers and Local Stores
A Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch tale recounts two local youths who compare gun prices between Norfolk merchants and a Chicago mail order house. They learn catalog prices were about 25 percent lower, weigh delivery certainty, and question why local dealers avoid clear pricing. The piece urges buying locally when possible and notes the benefit of shops that display prices openly.
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Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch
Norfolk
Tig
Igh
Chicago
Cemiber
Club, Jr
Écheantea
Neil
Toell
Sea Dogs and Bureaucrats Spark Offhand Gibe
Rear Admiral Melville denounces Navy bureaucrats as an infernal clique prompting a sharp rebuke and a warning to stay at the desk. The Norfolk Landmark questions Richmonds tax forms and the system of assessment. Professor Percival Lowell foresees an end of the world linked to anti liquor forces. Mrs James B Russell and Miss Lucy Russell head to New York for holidays with Gardner W Brown. Mr and Mrs Thomas H Lewis travel from Woodstock to Boyce for the season.
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James B. Russell
Lucy Russell
New York
Gardner W. Brown
Loafing on the Streets and Holiday Notes Broadside
An editorial urges stronger action against street loafers seen around the courthouse and city hall, arguing for more police discretion to curb disruptive behavior. The page also lists Christmas events and visiting residents: Louis Trundle injured by a celebratory pistol shot. Presbyterians plan a 7 o’clock Sunday School Christmas program. and numerous locals from Onancock, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Staunton, Lexington, Winchester, and Baltimore spending Christmas with relatives.
Shenandoah Valley Academy Student Heads to Pennsylvania
Mr. James Bilton of Shenandoah Valley Academy left this morning for Pennsylvania to spend time away from school.
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Charles P. Jack
Staunton
James Jack
James Bilton
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Pennsylvania
Steamer Amerika Arrives in Plymouth En Route to Hamburg
The steamer Amerika carrying Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Kern of this city has reached Plymouth, England, yesterday as part of its voyage to Hamburg.
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Amerika
Harry R. Kern
Plymouth
England
Hamburg
Christmas Show at Rest Chapel Tuesday Dec 24
The Christmas entertainment at Rest Chapel begins promptly at 7 o clock on Tuesday December 24 with an attractive program to be rendered.
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Rest Chapel
Made Themselves Great Through Humble Origins
A compact tribute tracing how scholars from poverty and obscurity rose to intellectual eminence, enriching the world and earning lasting prestige for themselves. The piece highlights the uplift of common people into celebrated minds.
Deaths by Lightning in the United States
An average of 800 persons are killed in the United States each year by lightning. This means one in every 100,000.
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United States
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H. F. Byrd
D. B. Conrad
John Hoover
the Star
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Ing
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Trans
Ascolatlie
Eda
Lorie
Japan
Rayo
Standard Oil Company (Incorporated
Melville
Portugal
Carlos
Stork
King
Richmond
Percival Lowell
Boston
Anti-Saloon League
Thomas H. Lewis
Woodstock
Boyce
Good & Cood
Insurance A
Louis Trundle
Presbyterian
J. Olin Faulkner
Onancock
Virginia
Henry H. Little and Children
Water Street
Thomas Cover, Jr
Philadelphia
Thomas Cover, Sr
William Davis Conrad
Gertrude W Logan
W. P. McGuire
Lexington
Bessie Frank
W. L. Lockhart
Francis Street
Baltimore
Rice’s Music Store
N. Main ST
J. W. Taylor
Water St
Gillette Safety Razors
Fastman Kodaks
Parker’s Fountain Pens
Tabardian Books
Perfumery
Miller's Drug Store
FacSimile Signoree of
NEW_YORK
Bears
THE
Centaur Company
New York City
Southern Railway
Southern Railway Company
Shenandoah Valley Business College
Atkinson
M’g’s
Harrisonburg
Berry Ville
Scheuer’s
Kront
Royal Virginia
JS. BE. Larrick
Gainsboro, Va
T. H. Sprint & Son
West Water Street
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