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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1886
Page
3
In a rugged oil town a deadly well blast kills Tom Hayden and Moffat, leaving Mary Hayden widowed with a young daughter. The romance of Mary and Hayden frays as the couple’s hopes are shattered by disaster, a wrecked town, and a grieving community.
In the Cleveland Leader, a physician argues chewing gum alters digestion and weight. He claims Americans adapt slowly to new climates, noting Southern women grew stout as gums spread, while Southern men stay thin unless they quit tobacco and chew gum. He cites historical shifts over two centuries.
A detailed tale of the Raddle family once living in comfort through lavish spending on instalments. Income rose then vanished into debts as money was funneled into furniture, a piano, a rug, and other luxuries. Sundays stayed lavish. weekdays fell to dry bread. The piece tracks their decline from steady wages to poverty, ending in a three-room home and continued financial imprudence despite a legacy. It contrasts with a separate note on Bob Burdette’s poem and a moving confession about a performer’s sorrowful personal life.
A whimsical text fragment tracks a household scene with a grumbling husband Horner, his wife Katrina, and neighbors at Geijndile/Cress Patch Town, weaving dialects, Thanksgiving plans, and a quirky insurance salesman exchange about life insurance and marriage. The piece blends comic social commentary with character sketches and humorous miscommunications.
A summer episode at Fort Reno in Indian Territory recounts soldiers clearing ice grass snakes. A young cavalry officer describes chasing a venomous green snake, slashing twice and again, until it sped toward a ravine where a nearby horse stood, ending the encounter with the animal's fate.
A reader from Chicago praises a British Columbia railway car with a bathroom and tub seen on wheels. The author notes ample room hot or cold water, cleanliness, and a 50 cent bath charge during a two day trip with broad traveler approval.
New York telegram to the Boston Herald reports Mrs. Morosini Schilling facing marital strain with her stable husband. She appears anxious and thinner, with cries in private, while rumors claim mistreatment and a possible desire to leave. She remains resilient, continuing to perform and earn.
A Lie Chronicle correspondent in Europe warns deforestation harms rivers and springs, triggering floods, drought, poverty, and ruined agriculture from Spain to Austria and Germany. The piece notes legal redress and policy debates, while including a lengthy interlude of garbled dialogue about life insurance and unrelated anecdotes.
Mr M D Clark of Jefferson Texas recently visited Stillwater and shared details on Texas lumbering growth. Northern operators have expanded, shipping clear lumber to Omaha St Louis Chicago and other markets while undercutting Northwest prices. Texas pine grows dense near Cypress river with low land rents and acre pricing. A syndicate including Weyerhauser Denkman plans near Jefferson to expand operations, aided by rail rates established two years ago.
A Bound Brook man named Hebron endures spectral visitations after his wife’s death and a promise not to remarry. He claims his dead wife haunts him with ghastly visions and an army of devils, collapsing in fear and ultimately dying in his bed, believed by friends to be insane.
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