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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1886
Page
7
A narrator contrasts a woman’s harsh judgment of a poor suitor with a broader critique of factory toil. Scenes shift from a heated argument to a warehouse vision of cheap goods fueling misery for workers, including women and children, amid calls to resist wage-cutting and exploitative fashion. The narrative condemns dehumanizing conditions and urges humane labor standards.
Sam, a cautious wage buyer, discovers a bundle bought at low prices mirrors poverty and exploitation. His friend Charley Willin warns of psychometry and a recorded life that weighs actions, while Sam contemplates the ethics of cheap goods and wages. They enter a somber home to unravel the bundle’s haunting tale.
A fragment from Owna Hone’s Dry Goods Chronicle extols property ownership as central to public safety and citizenship. It argues that individual possession of soil guarantees dignity, self-respect, and stability, urging young men to acquire real estate as a cornerstone of family security and societal order.
The Catholic Columbian notes Barbadoes as the Earth’s densest inhabited island with 175,000 residents in 166 square miles, about 1,054 people per square mile, while Keangsu in China and East Flanders in Belgium show lower densities. It argues the Empire State would reach 60 million if as crowded, highlighting racial demographics with whites at a portion and 91 percent black or mixed.
An 19th century medical note urges daily sulfur fumigation to prevent diphtheria spread in schools and large families. It recommends isolating patients, thoroughly fumigating rooms multiple times daily, and using sulfur fumes to disinfect clothes and interiors as a low-cost, low-harm preventive measure.
A Leyda Mercury fragment recounts Margaret Thompson of Boyle Street Burlington Gardens London dying in 1776 with a will obsessed by Scotch snuff. Her servant Sarah Stuart is to keep the body covered with snuff, six pallbearers to wear snuff colored hats, and a littered farewell parade with snuff in the ground.
In a Norristown Horali piece a grammar school girl Mamie reports finishing an essay on slang but frets over time. She improvises excuses, jokes about her Hallifa deadline, and describes a fancy graduation outfit while debating academic effort. The scene mixes humor with social pressures and youth chatter.
A lighthearted Puck excerpt by K Munkiltriok in Puok lampoons everyday failures. It lists worn shoes pinching, untied scarves, leaky buttons, ink spills, fading matches and misfiring clocks as manifestations of life’s general cussedness. It riffs on objects undermining human plans with comic persistence.
A discussion of obscurity in literary style cites Johnson Browning and Jerrold, noting that clarity often secures enduring fame while obscurity hinders broad readership. A humorous anecdote about Jerrold failing to parse Browning’s Sardanapale underscores readers’ varied tolerance. The piece contrasts celebrated but opaque writing with more transparent expression and enduring popular appeal.
A narrator recalls fashion and gossip as a family shifts fortunes. A woman from a once-grand circle is humbled in town, her poplar status fading while others mock and speculate on her decline. The piece blends comic anecdote with social judgment.
A collation of prose on female beauty cites Leigh Hunt on graceful movement and body lines, contrasts with fringe notes about military postings, political mentions, and a detailed description of the St. Patric Academy building in St. Vial, noting its architecture, facilities, and health provisions.
In Dublin a Parnellite meeting reelected M Parnell as chairman while agreeing not to accept lighter legislation and executive control over Irish affairs than Gladstone's bill. The report cites Vermont elects and various notices, plus medical ads and unrelated items.
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