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Newspaper
Kimball Enterprise
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1883
Page
2
A fragmentary poem describes an April morning with a bird’s clatter and a vivid sight of blue skies. The speaker opens the window, recalls a yearly return, and watches nature awaken with blossoms and bright scenes as the month unfolds.
In a Newton suburb parlor, two merchants share wine as their daughter Ethel, aged nine, dies after a period of illness. Richard Grant vows to make home his first care, while Mary, grief-stricken, comforts him as the family mourns the loss and buries the child in a rose trellised grave.
A survey of hysterical patients showing self-induced illusions of attack or injury. Examples from Charcot Bourneville and Dr Legrand du Soullé describe women fabricating assaults, stabbings, or garrotings to explain imagined harm. Cases include a woman fainting with bloodied face and a Courbevole subject fabricating political conspiracy victims. The piece notes fear of assassination can trigger such delusions in nervous individuals.
A Maine hunter recounts trapping foxes by luring them into a hollow log where multiple animals passed through. The tale ends with the hunter returning to extract several foxes, while a Lewiston Journal note adds that Atlanta reports nearly eight million dollars invested in manufacture and over two and a half million paid in wages annually.
A detailed rural tips column covers dairy production with 107 cows per factory and a first-year output of 688,000 pounds at 12 2 cents per pound. It also offers guidance on lime or cement for milk cellars, chicken coop construction, remedies for hair loss and bruises, Vienna cooking education, horse hoof care, calf anthrax, and moon blindness treatments.
A distorted passage describes medical and bodily effects in obscure terms. It mentions eyes, teeth, and bodily states amid confused phrases about remedies and daily reliefs, with references to minerals and drinks. The text reads as garbled OCR, offering little coherent narrative or verifiable facts.
Historical veterinary notes describe spring lox affections affecting the nervous system and digestive organs in animals. It advises a primary treatment featuring plaster, purges, and potash brine, with cautious dosing to avoid further complications. Swollen glands and pallor signal tail earth, and overfeeding may worsen the condition.
An 1800s Livestock Journal excerpt outlines gentle management to stop kicking during milking. It advises immediate milking, a single firm strike with a switch on the offending leg, and gradual reduction of blows as the cow becomes tame. Emphasizes timing, consistency, and restraint with the right handler and cow.
Youth’s Companion outlines acute rheumatism and rheumatic fever as early life diseases. It details progressive and partial forms, first attacking small finger joints then spreading, with redness, swelling, muscle spasms, deformities, and ivorylike cartilage growth in joints. It notes age and environment factors and that the disease rarely ends life.
M Damala husband of Sarah Bernhardt writes to a Paris paper announcing retirement from the stage to resume a soldier's career. He says rumors of separation are false and he joins the Foreign Legion seeking naturalization. He was once a Greek army officer. Also mentions Bell’s rise from poverty to wealth and a 17 pound trout caught on a set hook in Georgia.
Harper April preview narrates a visit to Cetywayo, detailing a tense reception in a royal room. The king, dignified yet distant, deflects questions on religion and distance, while interpreters reveal a culture gap and limited understanding of American science and astronomy.
A garbled compendium from a 19th century page features a dramatic exchange about life and death at a grave, remarks on actors including Stalker and Brown, a painter praised for interiors, and a London society quip about a guest’s visit. A quarrel over gaudy attire and a line about assisting a sergeant close the snippet.
A garbled OCR item discusses an appointment process with unclear names and figures. The readable portions reference a traveler, token, costs, and a reference to dollars, but most specifics are illegible.
Fragments describe a bustling Cairo street scene with merchants artisans and busy crowds. The text notes mosques in Cairo including the Great Mosque of Ahmar undergoing restoration and a council preserving monuments with European involvement. It also depicts dogs and street life among traders and travelers in a tireless market atmosphere.
Miss Mary McLain of Fond du Lac Wisconsin abandoned her newborn in Chicago on Friday. Her parents are described as respectable and she was engaged to be married May 1 to a Tukdu Lac man. The obituary mentions John Gray of Ada Michigan who died aged ninety five and left 103 descendants. England and the United States postal areas are noted with sizes around 122000 and 3500000 square miles respectively.
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