110 YEARS AGOThursday, Jan. 25, 1912from the Mathews Journal
Among the most important measures thus far introduced in the Virginia Legislature are:
The enabling act, a measure allowing the people upon petition to vote on the liquor question.
A bill to establish a central tax commission to equalize taxable values.
A child labor bill which also prohibits the working of messenger boys under sixteen years of age after ten o’clock at night.
A bill to do away with contracts for convict labor.
An anti-gambling act.

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, Jan. 26, 1922from the Gloucester Gazette
To the Merchants of Gloucester and Mathews County: I wish to announce that we have secured the franchise to bottle and sell Coca-Cola, in the above-named Counties. A...