Wells Bostwick, a twelve-year-old son of Sumner Bostwick, a former well-known insurance man, fell into Mead’s brick yard pond, at the head of Mill street, and was drowned, Tuesday evening. The pond in some places is fifteen feet deep and the bank is very slippery. It is thought the boy Continue Reading
1903
The Unknown Traveler: Found Dead in a Gondola Car at Garrison
“The Vanceburg Sun says of the unknown man who was found dead in a car on the C & O at Garrison last Sunday:” “When eastbound C & O freight No. 76 reached Garrison about noon Sunday the train crew discovered the body of an unknown man lying in a Continue Reading
Obituary of Mrs. Jacob Berndt
“Mrs. Jacob Berndt died at one o’clock this morning at her late home, 819 Court street. Her death was due to the infirmities of old age and was not unexpected, as she had been in very poor health for months.” “Her maiden name was Eva Margaret Gartner, and she was Continue Reading
John K. Duke: Preferred Death to the Pen
“John K. Duke, who was convicted last week at Portsmouth of embezzling the funds of two of the Building & Loan Associations of that city, thwarted the aims of justice by shooting himself through the head with a revolver, a few minutes before he was to have been sentenced to Continue Reading
Certificate of Vaccination Necessary to Land a Job in Portsmouth
“The ice is broken. Pressure that has been brought to bear by manufacturers is giving the health authorities clear sailing in enforcing vaccination throughout the city.” “Many of the leading industries of the city were represented at the meeting held at the Commercial club parlors, Tuesday evening. Mayor Milstead presided, Continue Reading
The Death of Engineer McAllister
“Charles McAllister, well-known C&O ferryboat engineer, died of consumption at his home in South Portsmouth at an early house this morning. Hea leaves a wife, Mrs. Maud McAllister. Miss Miriam McAllister, and Mrs. Stella McGlone, the latter of Vanceburg, Kentucky, were sisters. Charles was a son of James McAllister, also Continue Reading
Ephemera Friday #18: Grand Opera House Program
The four-paged paper program (Number 65. Friday, February 27, 1903) for Portsmouth, Ohio’s Grand Opera House for the 1902-1903 season. The first page includes advertisements for local businesses such as John Vetter, a tailor, and Haas, Schwartz & Co., a retailer of suits, overcoats, and trousers, and jeweler CH Harris. Continue Reading
Man Loses Arm Near Spring Lane Distillery
“William Counsel, a North Carolina Negro, was found alongside the Norfolk & Western track, opposite the Spring Lane distillery at four o’clock this morning with his left arm crushed to a pulp and bleeding profusely from a big hole on one side of his head and a bad scalp wound Continue Reading
Sarah Huffman Buried in Greenlawn
“The late Mrs. Sarah Huffman, of St. Louis, formerly Sarah Smith, of this city, was buried this afternoon in Greenlawn cemetery. Funeral services were held at Sixth street church of which she was formerly a member.”[/efn_note]Buried in greenlawn. (1903, August 29). Portsmouth Times, p. 6.[/efn_note]
Despondent Elza Osborn Attempts to Commit Suicide
“Elza Osborn, a Lawson Heights man, who was reported missing Tuesday, was found early this morning, lying flat on his back and covered with a mosquito bar, in a neighbor’s yard, in a serious condition. The man was unconscious and writhing in agony from poison self-administered.” “Officer Stokely called the Continue Reading