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Source: Times Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Norfolk and Portsmouth” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Richmond, Virginia Date of publication: 19 September 1901 Volume number: 16 Issue number: 192 Pagination: 3 |
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| “Norfolk and Portsmouth.” Times [Richmond] 19 Sept. 1901 v16n192: p. 3. |
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| William McKinley (death: government response); proclamations (Mayor Taylor, Norfolk, VA); William McKinley (mourning); proclamations (Mayor Baird, Portsmouth, VA); William McKinley (death: public response: Virginia). |
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| J. Thompson Baird; William McKinley; Tazewell Taylor [misspelled below]. |
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Norfolk and Portsmouth
By Mayoralty Proclamation These Cities Go into Mourning.
NORFOLK, VA., Sept. 18.—Acting Mayor
of Norfolk Tazewell Taplor to-day by proclamation called upon the citizens to
suspend all secular business between the hours of 1 and 4 o’clock “as a befitting
tribute” to the late President, who fell as a martyr to duty after a noble life
spent in the service of his country.
Business will be suspended to-morrow. The city
is in mourning and gloom and grief is everywhere apparent.
Mayor of Portsmouth Baird has issued a proclamation
suggesting the suspension of business to-morrow during the hours appointed for
the funeral of Mr. McKinley, and also that citizens attend the services, which
will be held in the various churches. This will be generally observed.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad Lambert’s Point
coal piers will suspend operations to-night until Friday morning. Not even steamers
calling for bunker coal will be supplied. This is most unusual. All business
houses here will be closed to-morrow afternoon. There will be services in all
the churches. Sadness like a pall covers these cities.