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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1885
Page
3
An elderly husband Durant faces a costly past love as Agnes, his wife, pleads for forgiveness with their home and future. A forged or forgotten bond drives conflict over consent, inheritance, and a new match with Durant’s son, testing patience, pride, and reconciliation.
Read like a speculative column on a future U S president. The piece ponders the young man's destiny and qualities, noting public scrutiny by mothers and tutors, while weighing education, character, and the nation’s judgment. It contrasts a potential American leader with Prince Edward of Wales and hints at republican guidance through a cautious ballot.
In a New England kitchen Ebenezers secret tobacco stash sparks a reckoning. Jemima sues fate for money she secretly valued, Ellen Denison faces loss and love, and George Stapleton helps reveal a fortune found in a tin box. Their acts test honesty, kinship, and forgiveness.
An interview notes the vogue for loose flowers at dinners including roses carnations and lilies of the valley. It highlights Bennett rose Marshall Neil pearl Duke of Connaught and other varieties with prices per bud from sixteenths to a dollar and mentions two New York florists storing rare seed in vaults worth four times their weight in gold.
A centennial reflection notes that Watts's Palma was Hartford 1785 edited by Joe Barlow then thirty. Barlow, a Connecticut lawyer who studied at Yale, wrote Prospect of Peace in 1778 and edited the American Mercury. He planned The Column Kind begun in Vision of Columbus, tied to the nation’s founding year.
The piece recounts Jim Keene once famed as Wall Street king of good luck and bold bets. It notes his California start as a teacher turned speculator, his rise with opium, pork, grains, and stocks, and his later ruin after the 1879 corner and other ventures. Now near poverty, his health and pride show the toll of a volatile career.
The piece surveys a wide set of early 1880s curiosities and crises from water shortages in Toronto to cattle losses in Indian Territory and Spanish earthquake relief fundraising. It cites academics, legislative moves, odd scientific claims, and cultural tidbits reflecting a restless world.
The Vienna Skating Club staged a grand fancy ball on ice lit by twenty electric lamps for an audience of over 1 000 inside the rink and thousands more outside. About 200 skilled skaters performed a pantomime with grottoes of ice, plants, colossal icicles, and frozen spray, featuring a dozen lady skaters as nymphs and goddesses. A lengthy procession of ice carriages, akin to Italian carnival floats, concluded the performance.
In a morning paper a Sugar firm flounders with a reported 81,000,000 deficit. Mrs Smith and others react as talk turns to a harsh winter blamed for the collapse. The exchange hints at economic strains across the trade.
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