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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1897
Page
3
A fragmented Washington Star excerpt chronicles a daring traveler Yves from the west, chasing a gold country fortune amid peril and wit. It blends daring escapes, warnings, and reflections on fortune, danger, and the allure of wealth across distant places.
Mona Newburgh navigates looming poverty and a looming match with Mr. Waring while her grandmother Mrs. Newburgh struggles with illness. Debrisay, Mona’s confidante, urges a practical path via marriage to a wealthy suitor as Mona weighs duty, love, and debt against a hopeful future. Captain Lisle and Sir Robert Everard enter the tense family plan as an offer to sell the house looms.
A long-winded piece mocks a fashionable cure for pallor among young women, praising a German doctor's harsh, impractical regimen. It criticizes excessive vanity, urging simple exercise, walking, avoiding sugars, proper hydration after meals, and natural living, while deriding fad remedies.
A fragment from a 19th century miscellany surveys notable fortunes and pastimes of prominent men including Washington, Vanderbilt, Disraeli, Carnegie, Pullman, and Gould. It blends anecdotes on leisure, travel, and wealth with quips from humorous vignettes and newspapers of the era.
The article describes Dawson and surrounding mining camps in the Yukon with newcomers seeking new claims. It notes disputed claim ownership, Canadian mining authorities, and local population growth driven by prospecting camps. It mentions wages, provisioning, and peril from harsh weather and pests as camp life intensifies.
The Aug event in Hartington featured a park opening, a bicycle race won by Millard Eby with W. Th. Mean second, and a county trot won by Aboy Vou. A Coleridge versus Patagonia game ended 9 to 0 for Coleridge, Prof W Winterringer showcased a balloon ascent with parachute jumps, and the day drew more revelers than expected. In London, the House of Commons heard the foreign office secretary state the British protectorate over Palmyra was proclaimed in May 1888 and would be maintained. no present conquest over Hawaii or Palmyra was claimed.
Indications suggest powers may impose another stimatum to Turkey as Tewhk Pasha submits amendments to the peace terms. Ambassadors expect a two to three week delay in signing the preliminaries, with a possible new threat of force if needed.
Fragmented OCR reading mentions a California arrest and a case about a vehicle or property offense. Names and places are obscured, and key facts are not readable.
Special to the New York World. Secretary Alger faced a billing clash with commercial travelers and the Chicago Decorating Company over lavish hotel room decorations at the Great Northern during the Logan monument unveiling. A chamber troupe performed as Alger refused payment, insisting no debt existed, while the collector stayed and was told to leave.
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