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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1886
Page
7
Fragmentary and archaic sounding poem text referencing love and aging. The lines evoke a vow of eternal youth beside a beloved, with imagery of skies and tenderness. The source shows garbled OCR fragments and nonsentences but centers on enduring love against time.
A wandering American narrator recalls his feverish courtship of Maria Wigson amid Brussels and Paris theater, cataloging snobbery, royal intrigue, and a grand Champs Elysees review. He rises from a social oddity to a faux prince, then witnesses Maria’s guarded charm and a cataclysmic misstep at a cathedral doorway.
In a quiet family tale, Charlie Hallett returns to news of new relatives from Canada. Aunt Mary brings sisters Nell and Min to meet the English Halletts, stirring tensions around a hidden will and a repaired family rift. John Hallett secretly holds the farm deed, earned by Tom’s earlier toil, and reconciles with Lisbeth and his wife, while Nell and Min prepare to return to Canada with Charlie seeking his bride Nell.
An elderly correspondent recounts a recent banquet in Atlanta Georgia where Civil War memories resurfaced. Veterans and attendees, including General Gordon and General Sherman, share stories of battles, gunfire, and personal sacrifice amid lingering bitterness and national reunion.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean contrasts Boston aristocracy with Chicago practicality. A visiting Boston man is shocked by Chicago lack of ancestral pedigrees, while Chicago men in Boston are awed by Boston’s old money lineage. The piece notes the late William F. Ward of Philadelphia as the tidiest man to die there, worth $53,000,000.
In a Pittsburgh dispute, Adjutant General Guthrie refuses to drink with Governor Pattison while discussing service needs. Pattison asks Guthrie if he drinks as he pivots in his revolving chair. Guthrie answers he drinks occasionally but does not want anything at the moment.
Following in footsteps of renowned elders, a daughter of novelist W. D. Howells prepares to write fiction, a daughter of Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney just released a novel, a son of William Black starts writing for children, a sister of K. P. Green editors a novel, and a son of Susath McCarthy recently issued a book.
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