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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1890
Page
3
A mosaic of local notes from Kimball and Plankinton area includes farm updates, cattle and hog shipments, grain buying, and community events. Reports on irrigation, hay fever remedies, and upcoming races share space with editorials on fuel, church attendance, and schooling as towns prepare for fall.
A long reader column mixes a heartfelt cards of thanks note from Hannah Roseola Petty with a string of curious domestic and maritime odds and ends. It includes a thanks message for support after a husband’s death, a sale of a horse and gear, then a detailed shipboard provisioning tally for the City of Paris voyage, followed by notes on laundry and meals aboard, a tale of a wooden leg burned in a fire, a Chinese remedy for croup, and a Charleston man finding a $5,000 cash cache in a chimney flue from the Civil War era. The piece blends obituary, household notices, oddities, and lurid curiosities typical of late 19th century newspaper hum.
A London Fanciers' Gazette correspondent recounts a cock on a ship from Trincomallee to London feeding a tiger named Demon aboard the Anchises. The cock’s spurs struck the tiger’s nose and paw, drawing blood, edging the animal away. The bird died before reaching the channel, but sailors cheered the display of courage amid the voyage.
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