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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1884
Page
3
A damaged page from the Chatnlor's Journal shows verses of love and passion. The text blends archaic phrasing with fragments describing heartache and longing set against imagined imagery of light and night.
Recipes and household tips on cooking onions and yinkitoes, potato storage and dust baths for horses, plus notes on wheat cultivation, fruit therapy, and animal gestation periods. Includes advice on apples, oranges, lemonade, and other foods as medicines.
An article extols Savoy cabbages as nearly as tender as cauliflower with distinct flavor and good texture. It notes many Savoy varieties from early to late and advises sowing seeds and growing like ordinary cabbage, while comparing fruit advice for peaches and other fruits to meals and digestion.
The article describes decorative ideas for table coverings and napery with crimeun cloth and seed-embroidered details, plus garden-worthy touches such as jardiniere bulbs and hyacinths. It highlights orchid arrangements, gilded palm leaf fans, and the use of asparaguses mona as decor accents.
The article urges sowing peas as soon as frost ends and explains cheap early cabbage planting. It recommends cold frames sheltered by newspaper and mulch with warm manure to protect against frost. A warm manure mulch can accelerate asparagus and enable two early crops with sufficient plants.
The fragment discusses organizing a garden for farms before work begins to avoid neglect. It questions why a husband should not take on the burden rather than overloading the farm wife with additional duties. It references domestic roles and efficiencies.
A treatise explains using common tar to coat leather boots and soles to repel moisture and extend life. It claims tar coats keep shoes dry in wet soil, endure wear, and resist odor after hours. Additional uses include dust mitigation, earth closets, pipes, urinals, and gas fittings for lasting purification.
The passage portrays Skobeleff with a handsome face and blue eyes, riding a white horse in battle and dressed in a white coat. He fights up close, leads his men, and shows the way to batteries, while remaining cautious of his own troops. His division maintains supplies. rumors of embezzlement arise but dismissed as unnecessary to chase.
The New York Court of Appeals plans silk gowns on the bench following the U S Supreme Court example with reports of Pennsylvania and other states likely to adopt the practice. A US district judge in South Carolina wore a gown but stopped after a colleague refused, and circuit judges push for official guidance while Chief Justice Waite defers to judges’ personal views on expediency.
A whimsical dialogue mocks a lady’s looks with a glass and false traits, then shifts to a tale of General Chinese Gordon. An old pensioner recounts Gordon in Sebastopol where he warns leadership by example, saying Never order a man to do what you are afraid to do yourself.
In 1976 at the Langham London Dore meets a mysterious visitor claiming to be Sir Mr. Marwood Mangan. The visitor commissions a drawing of a prison execution scene featuring Marwood, Henry Wainwright, and warders. Dore completes the sketch and declines payment directing the £50 to the French Hospital.
A historical observer describes Prime Minister Gladstone in a regal carriage with Queen Victoria and Princess of Wales in Hyde Park. The writer notes the immense responsibility of governing 300 million subjects and contrasts royal composure with public display. He praises the royal family’s managerial air and comments on carriage etiquette and quality of horseflesh.
A narrator recalls traveling to Portland in 1829 to seek work after reading local papers the Portland Courier and Family Reader. He meets the editor, gains encouragement, and plans an honest life. A London letter notes dancing trends with rapid waltz decline and cotillion etiquette becoming costlier.
An ancient tale from the Scottish Border parallels a Quaker apprentice's quick thinking. A thief fleeing with a mare and foal collapses when the boy cries Catch the colt, revealing keen observation and calm, effective action. The story praises youthful restraint and perception.
The London Truth reports Prince Albert’s stinginess matched by greed for money. He held a nominal post now filled by Count Gleichen for years and drew an annual £30,000 allowance plus £1,200 as Windsor Castle governor until death. The prince’s estate value and will provisions remain secret, with tight precautions shielding his property from public view.
A Philadelphia judge refused Mrs Kilgora admission to the bar, arguing that although no inherent gender barrier exists, general law and divine order require protecting the female in public duties. The decision centers on whether the married woman can practice law and enter contracts, framing the matter as legislative rather than judicial.
A long worn mule from the Third Artillery at Mont Vernon barracks Alabama is recommended to be kept in the War Department. Officers petitioned to provide care at no cost, citing its age and service. The issue passed through officials, culminating in orders to keep and maintain the animal for life.
Two senators recount a Milwaukee Road tale about Pap Morrill guiding a wheel tester. The tester taps wheels as Morrill watches and finally offers to show him how, prompting the worker to apologize after realizing who he was. The anecdote ends with a Benton note on two Portland players sharing guard duties.
A Worcester reader recounts attending a Mohammedan Chinese wedding via Kalgan mission circles. The bride, about 16, dressed in red with gilt ornaments, leaves with a bridal escort and is veiled. Guests observe rituals with priests, walnuts tossed to drive away Satan, and a large feast of twenty five courses. The groom pays respects to six priests before the ceremony ends. The bride travels over 200 miles to wed. both families rarely see each other.
The article recalls Lord George Gordon led riots in London in 1780. Four days of destruction followed, with thirty six fires at Newgate Prison, multiple public buildings and numerous homes damaged. Troops fired, bayonet charges occurred, and Gordon was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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