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... GIVES A PICTURE IN TYPE OF THE CITY OF NORFOLK AS SEEN FROM THE OPPOSITE SHORE . It was six - ten P. M. in Portsmouth , Virginia , and all the good citizens of Portsmouth , Virginia , knew it . I say all unhesitatingly . The deaf and ...
... GIVES A PICTURE IN TYPE OF THE CITY OF NORFOLK AS SEEN FROM THE OPPOSITE SHORE . It was six - ten P. M. in Portsmouth , Virginia , and all the good citizens of Portsmouth , Virginia , knew it . I say all unhesitatingly . The deaf and ...
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... give Portsmouth watches and clocks an opportunity to prove themselves indispensable , takes a rest . It had been a dark , a very dark and very cloudy day , accompanied by a very high wind , and at every one of the numerous stations at ...
... give Portsmouth watches and clocks an opportunity to prove themselves indispensable , takes a rest . It had been a dark , a very dark and very cloudy day , accompanied by a very high wind , and at every one of the numerous stations at ...
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... give the impression that the whole had been designed by some master architect , moulded by superior mechanics and securely placed upon the most appropriate spot - its present site . Her substantial - looking wharves , fringed with the ...
... give the impression that the whole had been designed by some master architect , moulded by superior mechanics and securely placed upon the most appropriate spot - its present site . Her substantial - looking wharves , fringed with the ...
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... give the traveling public the benefit of my observations , and make it , if possible , sufficiently interesting and readable to be worthy of perusal by the resident popu- lation . CHAPTER III . WHICH DESCRIBES MAIN STREET - THE ROOFLESS ...
... give the traveling public the benefit of my observations , and make it , if possible , sufficiently interesting and readable to be worthy of perusal by the resident popu- lation . CHAPTER III . WHICH DESCRIBES MAIN STREET - THE ROOFLESS ...
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... give the citizens of Norfolk and the cotton- raisers of the contiguous section the proud privilege of paying several times its original cost , the difference , ex- cept a very slight margin , finding its way into the strong safes of the ...
... give the citizens of Norfolk and the cotton- raisers of the contiguous section the proud privilege of paying several times its original cost , the difference , ex- cept a very slight margin , finding its way into the strong safes of the ...
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advertisement Agent Albemarle appearance architectural Atlantic attractive avenue Baltimore Bank street beautiful Bern Bros building Canal cemeteries centre Chesapeake Church street citizens of Norfolk Commerce street Company corner cotton court-house crossing CURRITUCK COUNTY Dealers Doric order Edenton Editor and Proprietor Elizabeth City erected Fearing street Free Mason Free Mason street freight front GATESVILLE give Granby street granite grounds handsome harbor Hotel interest iron Kinston Lambert's Point land leading business houses look magnificent Main street mansard Manufacturers marble Marine Market Square Middle street monuments Navigation neat Neuse Norfolk Southern Norfolk Southern Railroad North Carolina Nowitzky's ornamented Pamlico park Pasquotank passengers Perquimans county Portsmouth pretty railroad RALEIGH road Roanoke river solid sound and river South stands steam-boats steamer stone stranger stream structure substantial surroundings tion tower town trees Trent River Virginia walk walls Washington Water street weekly well-designed wharf wharves Wholesale and Retail
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