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The Biloxi Herald from Biloxi, Mississippi • 5

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The Biloxi Heraldi
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Biloxi, Mississippi
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5
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-A f- i NEW BUILDING Boirorr I Physician And SurGEon Bitoii kiss Oftwiidnc stars of Bsltoa fc UNIVERSALLY CONCEDED TO THE STATE Fancy Groceries A REALISTIC REMINDER OF ADVANCE- MENT Tinware Stoves Feed Hardware Crockery Paints Oils Varnishes Wood and Willow Ware Etc GOCTS TIN AND 8HEET-IB0N WOBXEB ifut for PBATTW FOOD YOB HOB8XS AYD CATTLE Comer Howard Avenue and Main street BILOXI MTRH THE BANK EXCHANGE Proprietor Manager laid fteuble and tteftdc'ipdWlttl min era! wbbl On (his flcbr llsirtajrecl clothing on curled cypress tables and heavy goods of the latest styles bn the market Nineteen double and single openings afford a splendid I HRht This floor is also provided BE THE FINEST IN throughout With electric llgbtS Ttie oval opening on this floor takes np the centre Is handsomely railed and commands a view of the first floor Continuing up the staircase a large open room is found with nineteen openings which are fitted with apron shelves Theroooi is ten feet high and also has deadened- double floors Such In brief is a description of the building Among those who assisted in its erection are Harkness contractor at first and Thompson afterwards with Thus Roeell as superintendent The pressed brick was furnished by St Louis the other brick by the Salmon Brick and Lumber Co of Slidell La' and II Lien-hard of Ilandshoro the -stonework by McDonald Man'll Sc Co of Mobile plinubiug by Geo II Elder tin and copper work by Dan Markey painting and ornamenting by Kd Suter electric work by Felacz of the Biloxi Electric Light Co hardware by Lopez A Co awnings by Mangln display cases and shelving br the Edgoville Nashville Mfg Co Nashville doors sasli and general wooilwo' by the Biloxi Mfg Company The management of 'the business is entrusted to Waclicn-feld This gentleman commenced fifteen tears ago as a clerk for Lojtez Co afterward liecoming bookkeeper and wher Mr Kdw Park was appointed cashier of the Dank of liiloxi Mr Waehenfeld then assumed the management of this house lie is a gentleman who has the confidence and esteem of all who Know him and has certainly displayed an aptitude for business that Is highly to his credit The clerks are Aug Waehenfeld Misses May Pearson Jennie Gillen Jessie Smyly and Lizzie Park The building Is owned by Mr Lopez a gentleman well known in the commercial and financial circles of this country lie is the senior partner in the firm of Lopez Sc Co and is largely interested in the canning interests of this section He takeB great Interest in the welfare of the rising generation and has lately built and presented to the city an elegant school building on Porter avenue is identified with all that is THE BUSINESS CO cresting which admits of a fine The other side and rear of the is in keeping with the details of the entire edifice The is trussed 'and carries timbers first floor Is an elegant room 92 feet deep 36 wide and 14 The ceiling is a marvel of being of eel embossed the most recherche pattern divided into six large panels the ones being smaller than the owing to oval WINES LIQUORS CIGARS ETG IN THE CITY Polite attention to all Patronage solicited jnflMy 1 Lopez Co Have in Stock the Latgeet and Most Complete L2pe of SHOES HND IE THK CITY 8keea of tb bat qaalitr Bwwn Brown Shoo Co ftriUcv and Doaglas atmaafoctnio XLATS xro auo of tho boat qnxlitj and latoat saw is uo auo or cno mm qnautj ana latart ibtpa 'also rnldW aad ladieo la tho latest OUB Prompt attention aad polite mttIm ronderod to all First-Class- Lines of Family Groceries Paints Oils Hardware Feed Etc always in stock A MODERN Ur-TO-DATE HOME OF I (DORRUtlt General Insoraiiee Agency Welkmr Building np-stmirs BILOXI MISS Fire Life Accident Boiler Towboat and Employers' Liability INSURANCE COMPANIES: Liverpool end London end Globe Inaurenee Co of lEwginaA Boyel Insnxenee Cbmpeny of Liverpool Phenix Ineorenee Oompe Hartford Fire Ieraxenoe Phenix Innoranee Company of Brooklyn am tionipeny of Hartford At the corner of Howard Avenue 4 Sind Jleynoir street there' stands one pf the finest buildings ever erected In this state-devoted to the purposes of trade It not only marks the-advancement of Biloxi but perpetuates the strong character of its owner Mr Lopez In Its bold and beautiful llnes and yet modest withal It is a building that the more one examines it the 'greater its beauties appear and it is well worth a close and cngthy inspection It is the first three-story building erected in Iftloxi Amaricen Fire Insuxanoe Company: of Philadelphia Macihanioa end Tradara Inauranoa Company of New Orleans Lancashire Inanrenoe Company of Manchester Eng llutaal Life Insnrenoe Company of New York fhseaiy Cash Fajins Firwli 9) I SHIP YARD MATTEO MAETINOLICH Prop handsboho miss I Tassels built hauled out and repaired on short nKw and satisfaction guaranteed SI-Ssms and that fact lends additional inter-1 the second floor The panels are in I and to the Interest of Blest to its description which The Daily several blended colors and show high-1 )enK a city representative Herald gives in this article ly artistic work done by Ed Suter of I noted as a most liberal and Tills fine edifice is to be utilized on I this city Each panel has a fine ebony cHahle man and ever alive to the two of its floors at a dry goods "cloth-j electric chandelier of six pendant intcrests of this city wherejiis home lights making In all forty-eight elec- and famIly are' Mr- was asso-tric lights on this floor The patterns cated 1880 with Messrs Dukate on the ceiling are something new and GorenIJo Elmer and Maycock in the mingle with each other in design and Pioneer canning company of Biloxi general arrangement forming an en- ln 18M he and Mr- Dukate withdrew semble that is' most pleasing to the I and cstsblislied in connection wth eye The store is lighted by massive the Dupoars the present factory at plate glass ln front while on one side Polnt Cadet- which has become the are six large oriental plate glass win- larest oyster packing factory in the dows and six on the other Qf rough country outside of Baltimore His chipped glau The three plate glass I present exalted position has been show windows- are twelve feet high achieved by hard work strict atten-wlth a ten-foot front and five deep I ton to business and putting the best In furni-sihng millinery and notion store by the firm of Dulion Sc Co who discovered some time ago that 'in the old wooden structure they were cramped for 'room and needed a larger -and more palatial -building This probably suggested tbe Idea of the present edifice it has been erected The old building was moved back oc Jleynolr street some 100 feet I or so to make room for the present struSAire It has been quite a while under Opsrs Homs Slock McMillan BILOXI Office sad widows Corner Maim straetaad the Will sight prafearieaal soils day sod A ALDRICH BILOXI MIBB Ms people of Biloxi sad viaiattr to th A NASH SURGEON DENTIST Offioa Bank of Biloxi Bulldiag Dentistry in nil its branches Gnld etonn nd bridge work Gold aluminum and rubber uUtoo ALL DISEA8BSOP TH MOUTH SUCCESSFULLY TBXATBD BY THB LATEST METHODS NOLAND Attorney at Law MISSISSIPPI CRY BOMS WOlpraetleo la State and Federal Oenrts tn Mississippi eepenfaily to tbs eoaet noun Warn HST: WHITE A NEVILLE ATTORNEYS AT LAW BILOXI OMm la Bonk building Will proetlM ix tka eonrta of Hall Md Sd eLiuMT dlatriflta th i tlw itata nd tax UartM Bta MAYBIN Anoun at Law Biloxi Mm Practlca all cowtoef Ik tad Jsdl-U District nd la the Moral ni 8a- 1 and 1 xxDBnrs JOHN CARRAWAY NOTARY PUBLIC Office: Bank of Biloxi Biloxi Hiss BLOOMFIELD ATTORNEY AT LAW Booms 8 axd 8 Pcraktox Stats Bask Boldins SCRANTON BISS Prtctiim in nil the court State and Federal Attention Riven to lonal buxiueM of I all kiniln- 44-1 jr Y0HETJT FOJKD) Attorneys at Law In tho EVANS Jr AttorneY-at-Law Mississippi City Miss Practioe in all Vtartaenlar attention DR W- a TALBOT BILOXLJ Office corner of Howard avenue and Hagno-1 lia Eiatettcr Building Will Da in Biloxi Mondai WednMily Scranton Thnrto lty Friday Handahu ktarfir ad fy Teeth extracted with nitrons oxide gas SahneBBridafiLnnlierCoiiiiaBT Iricks Una sal Cypress Loahod TTp-to-Date IIekald Build no HILOJCI MISSISSIPPI Fi rat Clam Shaving Hair Cutting andlBhampooing Patronaob solicitso 7-i8 22-1 ASTAMANT Psos- 'Willow Cottage AND FRENCH RESTAURANT On the Beach FRANCOIS SARTRE Proprietor Parties desiring special meals or dishes to I order can have same served in llrst-elaaa French style at the French Restaurant or at home on the most reasonable terms Board and Lodging by the day week or sonth 2Wm 1 YOUNG MEN-OLO 10 MEDIDIE 10 ELECTBICITY Cures the worst cases of Ixfotexct laud Seminal Weakness Also full vigor and strength restored to affected Serts 100 OCX) sold Cares- made aily Send for book FBHE to Dr Young Enterprise Miss 36-1 tb ELDER CO Blacksmiths Machinists Boiler Makers All kinds of Pattern Making and Castings Promptly Attended Ten fotki Bryioir Stmt Xoith sal I Irp BILOXI M18S NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Laxd Office at Jacksox Him 7 July 9 1S9K Notice is hereby given that the following-named settler has tiled notice of hie intention to make final proof in enpport of hia-claim and that said proof will be made before the circuit clerk of liarriaon county at 31 ia-aiaaippi City Miss on An gust 2 18118 vim: James Cooper of Men tori urn liiaa homestead entry Ne 24171 lor the aw qr section 8 township 2 south range 9 weet He namee the following witeeeaee to prove I hie eontinuous residence upon and cultiv tion of aaid land vis: William A Whittia I Agitating the Miiidt uH the President and His Cabinet Washlhgton Aug The govern ment of the territory to come under control of the United States is a matter presenting new and unexpected problems tbe consideration of which is tbgaging the serious and' almost undivided attention of the president and tte cabinet At the meeting this morning Secretaries Gage and Alger brought up the matter of the collection of revenues lu Cuba and Porto Rico and it was found that the ques- tion of government mlist be settled by the establishment and maintain-ance of courts and a postal service It was decided that the head of each department should work out the details of matters pertaining to their respective branches of the service Many of the citlaons In thU community are I well aware of the superior excellence of ('olio Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and will tell you that it is an remedy and the roost perfect that has yet been produced for bowel complaints It never tafia to cure and to cure quickly For sale by Swetman WAR TAX MAY REMAIN Method of Kaisinp Revenue Approved by Many BusinessMen Ni-w York Aug lii Collector Charles II Treat of the second internal revenue district of New York said Friday in regard to the con tin- uance of the war revenue tax: "It is my opinion that the war tax I law will remain In force without change for some months yet I might go further than this and say that in my opinion the war tax law ln its essential features will remain a perma-1 nent Internal revenue law is the fairest and most equitable revenue law we have ever had It will allow us more latitude in our re-1 ciprocal trade relations with other countries Business men with whom have talked seems almost universally pleased with the war tax As VJMcrtala Disease There is no disease more uncertain in Its nature than dyspepsia Physicians say that the symptoms of tin two cases agree It is therefore most difficult to make a correct diagnosis No matter how severe or under what disguise dyspepsia attacks you Browns' Iron Bitters will rare it Invaluable in all diseases of the stomach Mood and nerves Iron Bitten is sold by all dealers If jon live verv fur Irmn a drag atom yon ahonld keep at hand bottle of Chamuer-lain'a Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy i the beat medicine in the world for bowel complaint You are certain to have uie for it sooner or later ami it is worth a hundred times its cost when needed It is pleasant to take and always gives prompt relief For sale by Swetman NEVER FIGHT AGAIN Joe Very Affliction Queer New York Aug It is probable the fighting career or Joe Walcott one of the greatest welter weights that ever drew on a glove has come to an end Only a surgical operation and the loss of his right hand middle finger will enable him again to enter the ring The linger in question is stiff as a poker and Walcott cannot close the hand As tightly shutting the list after the glove is on is essential to successful use of the member ln a contest it is easy to see Walcott As the finger is stiff from the knuckle amputation would be a serious matter Valwabl to Women Especially valuable to women is Browns' I Iron Bitters Backache vanishes headache disappears strength takes the plane of iknMsand the glow of health readily should be without thla famous remedy Irpu BlUera is sold by all dealers niton of PDBX U59Zn Oil tepme nbacalloaof 1 saltans of th TEBY BEST PAQtT lha WOULD feyrtuor of roar point but Zs wni bouiu thsn hit Vim Li ad end Is Asset htttt hot wncswa Hiauirurr Ismsdeof ths Best os Fen Ha-xxnuLs-such ss all rood painters raw snd is graand Tnxox nn Thick- Ha traaU to an boy can do li 'U tb Ooxaiox Bam on Bonsa Pain tote andil thtamsfadSy0 Eos to Obacx Bums Pxxl or Cmr ft HAMM AR PAINT CO 91 Louis MOt Sold lad punwri tap JAS HAGAN Grocer Ship Chandler PAINTS OILS ETC KaUh ana 38-13t Bay View Ottage On the Beach BILOXI HI88 MrsH A ANDREWS Proprietress Regular or Transient Guests Famished with First-Class Aeeommedattoua at Madamte katas OPEN BUMMEm AND WINTEB I DULION stone finish building gen--eral building massive The being high beauty designs of and center others an opening on surmounted by handsome leaded I art Ia5B designs and brilliantly light- ed' The doors of the display windows areon Plng balances The transoms 0Ter doors are mitre plate glass I unique design The wood used ln I 'show windows Is press with mas-1 si ve turned columns The three glass I plates of the front are each 84x84 and are solid sheets of the finest material They are act In turned and fluted moldings and all the work and design I is that of Mr Tlios Resell of the I Biloxi Manufacturing Co and In this he has really excelled himself There may be larger show windows bqt none superior in finish The shelving and counters are of I oak with a new finish called ox blood on fronts and tops forming a very bright and distinguished appearance The plate show cases called "silent salesmen" are models of beauty and up-to-date ln every respect They LmestandMostCohpleteBugctIactory on Earth Write for Prices Nb Catalogue Our Conns Are The Best (foods on the market Mr Lopez ln Biloxi over 30 years We reproduce the following taken rom the Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi 11 L- Lope of the firm of Lopez A Co liiloxi Miss Isa native of Our Price: thel lowest Parry fg (a NICHOLAS HENZELENA UPHOLSTERER Aflfl (DATTRESS (DARER Will Kepair and Varnish all Kinds of Furniture Howard Avenue opposite Store BILOXl! construction the sickness and quar-1 antine Interfering with its early com- pletlou All this was however eventually overcome and it Is finish-1 ed We will first pay our respects to the outside and give a pen picture of the same as it appears on Howard Avenue and Beynolr street 'The illustration will help the reader ln fol lowing uS It If bnilt In the Romanesque style of architecture showing a front of pressed brick and Alabama stone th stories high with a tower on corner end finished in pressed brick and capped with modilllons of In other words brackets which are used ln classic running to a set column of Tennessee marble with ornamental capping forming a finish to the edifice that is superb There are two clrsular hay towers of copper with windows be- tween running up from the second story one of which is topped with Mullen copper tiling with -a hand some finlal ornament at top' The other la surmounted with wrought Iron cresting and has ornamental tJSqflDW Iron guards on third floor lb the center second istory there Is a elme top window arfhed with stone and cut wreath panels and above this a square window with stone sill Hotels and pressed brick to the top with slated rsof Over the main corner arched entrances are double windows with double arched stone and stone lintels These windows have ornamental iron window guards double main entrance at corner Ytte ifceti ween capped columns of Tennessee marble stone arched and have a beautiful effect Another entrance Is to the west of these between show Tbe flow pi tpe vestibules gyp tally tiled while the pra pf cypress with plate glass are altogether some Wight wide entrances to the store On the Reypolr street side of the bulldjgff there are entrances and windows with gn arched stone entrance with plate glass doors at about tbe rear or the store This entrance leads ft spacious hall la which the stair-runs to the other floors The Ssd story windows are double plate surmounted with transoms of and triangle shaped stained a This side of the building has stone trimmings and arches with rned solumna and mnldlng on thes The third flor has tim windows with due attention paid to the details of light etci At the top of the balldlng Is I 1 I i etct Ifid John A Sutter Box 82 Pass Chustiax Mas Artesian Well Contractor Correspondence Solicited Ang 18 1S95 ly HXXXT LOCHTK VS a HUBTAOX Henry Co WHOLESALE GROCERS AXD IXFOXTXBS OF Wines I Liquors Noe 319 321 323 323 Tehoupitoulas street And No 421 Natchez street IEV IILUIS LA rMweeeeeeeeftiweeeeefleMi Slehold Sros ft Weiss I ot 3 Wholesale LIQUOR Dealers dad WroMtar mf FINE No 1 3 5 and 7 Sonth Commerce It MOBILE ALA (M Door Sash and Blind AXUFACTUBEXS OF DOOKS SASH BLIMDS UOlDIHOff DOOK AND WINDOW FRAMES And dealers in Builders Hardware Window Glaae Putty and Pure Mixed Paint FG TlantMr ft CrO r1 i Spain He received tho greater part of his education in Havana and after he left school he was employed In the store of an uncle for -some years In 1867 he came to Mississippi and located in Biloxi where he established himself in business iris capital being limited he began with a small stock of groceries put by ocon omy industry and close attention to his Interests he has risen to a ing position in the commercial circles of narrlson county He owns a fine residence in Biloxi and the business building in which his store is He is a stockholder in Lopez Dunbar's Sons A canplpg factory one of hottle or three bottles for $120 ln By Old Established High Grade Han or Woman of good Church standing to not as Manager here and do office work and correspondence at their home Business already bnilt up aad established here Salary S0UO MDifl Mlf-oddimed iftii to A Elder WANTED Lauvelooelbroar HMalPst stand on the floor A noticeable aq- the most thriving institutions ln the dltlun are the revolving stools mount-1 south An part of the state They edon bronze uprights and swing as I pack shrimps oysters and figs and if on roller bearings In the center employment to hundreds The of the store on a mounted and band-1 concern Is under the management of some railed platform is located the Lopez and its prosperity is due ln office of the manager thoroughly I a great measure to his wisdom and equipped with cash registers furoi-1 executive ability He Is one of the ture etc There are filso fine tables I most enterprising men of Harrison on which are to be displayed' the bar-1 county and a citizen who would be gain goods All tables and ofijee fur-1 an acquisition to any nlture was supplied by the Biloxi I Mr Lope? is also Identified with Manufacturing Co I many other Interests in tfifa city al The millinery wall show cases are I of which go a mke history for very elaborate and are locate In the Biloxi wr na ot tM goftd I Iti aUtl that th AtabMM corn re ipoddi ot th pret tn-Kkkd I and cotton crop will be the greetos i cornice fixtures of a new and very I this year ever known in the State elaborate character are attached toi The yield of com it is thought will be the shelving while the show window sufficient for home consumption in nickel fixtures are of the latest de-1 that State signs With the windows dressed and the shelving counters gpd show cases loaded with the pholpest stock of goods thfit efin be procured to attract the attention of tqe buying community he or she will be a hard person to please If they can not be accommo- AfITI-KIIilL For straightening curly and kinky hair and producing a luxuriant growth Endorsed by tbe United States health reports Trice 60c per Chb eus Fres't Esxxsz Pxaobt THE NEW ORLEANS BREWING OF NEW ORLEANS LA -Main Office 130 Carondelet St BREWERS AND BOTTLERS OF THE CELEBRATED Perfection Lager Beer JulyU-94-ly DAN MAEKEY Copper Tin and Sheot-lron Worker Has opened shop on Magnolia street rear of is tetter building for tne purpose of carrying on the above named business and will also manufacture cans of all sisee and give attention to ROOFING GUTTERING AND SPOUTING and REPAIR WORK VENTILATED FLUES a specialty Patronage solicited apr29 THOMPSON iGontraetoi' and Builder BIL0ZI MISS Estimates given on all kinds of Buildings Plans and( Specifications furnished on short notice No charge for Plans when contract is taken Sluiing Hair Cutting Shampooing Et In the Best Style Known to the Art at TONSORIAL PARLOR Lemon Building Cor Howard Avo and Lameuse St EOT AND COLD BATES Far Sale at a Saarilloe Test-type untel I dated in this palace dry goods house of Dulion Sc Co At thji rear of the store which gives entrance to the hall staircase and upper floors are double sliding doors with fancy open grill work at top This hall la celled same as front In this hall the pattern case is set up stamps or pbstofflee money order -We are the sole manufs-turers of Anti-Kink and have no nectlen with any other so-cai manufacturers of hair stralghtene Salesmen male cr female desiring to earn a fair weekly salary send 1J cents for samples with descriptive outfit and full particulars Daubach containing thousands of fashion pat-1 Ricn 6 7 9 11 Broadway New York City terns Should it be decided to 12t 1 '41 put in an elevator ample space has been left In the hall to do so Passing np a magnificent staircase of cypress and pine the second floor is reached The stalrease (leads into halLVfraa which the enter ivhieh to eqoare MDiivQa Atla irl.

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1888-1901