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Newspaper
Kimball Enterprise
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1883
Page
2
Fragmented poem like lines describe angling and tangled lines with odd phrasing and playful rhymes. The text toys with fishing imagery and language, including references to a truth and a person named Beniting, in a cryptic, decorative style.
A narrator recounts a botched venture to raise funds for publishing and investing, driven by promises of $200,000 in Chinese stock and a quick fortune. The scheme collapses as creditors, bankers, and friends demand repayment, leaving him revealed as a cautious realist who learns through sharp losses and a ruined social standing.
Mrs Hubbard lies confined to bed at Reading after a fall that dislocated a knee cap and broke several tendons. Doctors fear her condition worsened beyond initial estimates. Gov Hubbard travels to Red Wing nightly and returns to the capitol each morning for duties.
A Philadelphia Times report describes a Lebanon county family in Mill Creek township living in squalor. A wild girl among three people, neglected since childhood, cannot read or write and flees any approach, living on corn dodgers and rye paste with old rags for clothing. Neighbors fear for her safety and plan to alert officials to intervene.
In the Washington Star, a New York Letter notes Beverly Tilden in festive evening dress with a large solitaire, surprising guests by appearing wealthy and carefree. It marks the first public outing since his law suit began, highlighting his status as one of the late Wil wealthier sons of three.
An army life anecdote recounts a New York regiment at Fredericksburg where skirmishers hid near a barn. Two foragers found a salt pork stash in a smoke house, the captain seized a mule to carry the meat, and the mule bolted past Union lines into Confederate territory after the barn was shelled, causing surprise and a cheer from the Johnnies.
Morere the celebrated tenor reportedly becomes insane and confines himself in a private lunatic asylum. He can whistle with railway engine force, frightening passers by on the boulevards and startling Parisians during a Faust performance. He was fined in court for disturbing the public peace.
An American sailor named Gilroy crossed the Pacific in a small two-ton craft from San Francisco toward Australia. He left August 29 last year, expecting five months at sea, kept a log, and was found near Cape Sandy on January 20 by the schooner Albert Vittery in a exhausted state.
Gilroy, 33, endured weeks at sea after a capsizing and wreck on the Tropic route. He faced calms, sharks, hunger, and loss of provisions before rescue by the Albert Vittory near Maryborough, Australia. He recovered after landing.
An overview noting many U S senators were born outside the states they represent. Names from Ohio Kentucky New York Tennessee Georgia Massachusetts North Carolina Virginia South Carolina Maine Pennsylvania Vermont and others appear, with several foreign-born listed including Ireland Scotland and England. The article cites multiple examples, listing senators and their birth origins.
The Christian Advocate recounts Rev. Arthur Mursell of England noting his father’s poor verbal memory. An impassioned orator could recite grandly yet misquote a sacred text. With study, memory improved, enabling accurate quotes of scripture and poetry.
A 19th century New Haven chapter recounts Wakemanite fanatic murders led by Mrs. Rhoda Wakeman. Followers, including Justus Matthews and Samuel Sly, strangled and stabbed a man during a prayer vigil in 1855. Sly's conviction led to commutation. later murders by Charles Sanford and others shocked the community. Some adherents remained in New Haven.
Washington Correspondence Cleveland Leader portrays a jury chosen in a government case describing its members as coarse uneducated and vulgar with four black jurors noted as the most respectable. The account mocks the jury while detailing physical appearances and demeanor observed by a reporter.
A young man in a suburban town returns home after courting a leading local woman. At ten o'clock he counts the clock strokes, realizes he misread the time, exclaims confusion, and sinks into melancholy. He has not been his usual self since the incident, with hints he may repeat the mistake.
Sherman W. Platt of Newtown fell ill with malaria last spring and after partial recovery suffered sunstroke that left him semi conscious and unable to speak since Christmas. Twice daily he wakes from a deep sleep, then returns to slumber. His mother notices facial bloating and drastic changes while he is dressed like a baby. he no longer recognizes his fiancée and has failed to be roused from his stupor. Hartford Courant reports.
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