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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1885
Page
8
The article argues that boxing's pain stems from utter physical exhaustion rather than deliberate cruelty. It contends that the struggle drains a fighter's remaining strength, making the fight resemble other strenuous endurance contests rather than a unique brutality.
The bride tells Henry she will act like an old married woman and expects practical treatment. He jokes about the old married man role, and the couple’s arrival ends with him gambling until dawn. The wife weeps. the groom returns to remark he’s “doing the old married man.”
The article describes Khartoum on the Blue and White Nile as a bustling emporium with riverfront development, surrounding villages, and varied architecture. It notes population estimates, housing built of sun dried brick, and a habit of plastering walls with dung to endure rains. It also mentions a contrast between external impressions and inner realities, and cites travelers like Mully, Baker, and Gordon.
A society wife deceives her country town husband by offering hard cider made from two bushels of hard apples. He discovers the ruse yet kisses her and says nothing. The tale implies younger husbands differ from older ones.
The sanitary authorities move to regulate drug adulteration amid growing support from honest druggists. Regulation aims to ensure purity in medicines and accurate compounding for physicians and patients. Quinine investigation by Prof. Wadler explores alkaloids and cheaper substitutes harming efficacy and patient safety.
A long narrative recounts the Jeannette disaster and a subsequent royal audience. Melville describes invitations to Peterhof, the journey by train, formal introductions, and a warm, English led dialogue with Czar Alexander III.
A century back the electric telegraph emerged as a scientific novelty. The article recounts Morse’s invention and the first Baltimore Washington line, noting how quickly telegraphy expanded to circle the globe. It recalls a classroom scene at the Female Academy of Albany with Prof Morse explaining the instrument to students.
Ex-chief critic Charles Charlie Loi reflects on Gordon after twenty six days aboard a steamer, noting his variable temper and dry humor. The piece contrasts Gordon with Buddhist relic worship, describing temple rites, tooth relics, and the parallels to Christian sainthood, then muses on modern civilization’s overrefinement, power, and will.
A midtown blaze is recorded with grand style by a discouraged journalist from Drake's Travellers St Magazine. The piece cites Pat Sheeny's grocery destroyed by fire with uninsured losses. court action involves General William S Harney, 84, appointing a receiver for his estate after a marriage to his housekeeper.
A garbled collection of proverbs and aphorisms mixes with a funeral notice for David Barton of Pittsfield Miss who died at 85. The piece cites scattered lines about honesty love and life, with misread phrases and odd spellings throughout the fragment.
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