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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1884
Page
2
A dense bulletin covers banking shifts in October with German and US figures, notes on state governance transitions, postmaster appointments, and coastal shipping. It mentions Governor Graveland resigning, Lt. Gov Hill's succession, and several city and county updates across several states.
A speech by Gen Sherman at the Frank P. Silier post hall opening scorns Davis’s claims of a conspiratorial plot. Davis replies in a published letter denying the accusation, demanding proof of any letter supporting his denouncement and challenging publication to show it.
A police report recounts Mattia Dobba, youngest of the Dobba brothers, captured after a drunken stumble while carrying burglary tools and contraband. He is jailed as authorities praise the capture of three notorious bank burglars, with ties to a Manhattan heist.
A cold Thanksgiving tale follows a pale woman and her husband as they choose kindness to two destitute girls. Aboard by Miss Arden and baker Mr Sims, they shelter and aid the sisters, with one girl finding work and the family’s warmth restoring joy at Christmas.
Report describes preparations for a vast underwater clean wall mine blast under Flood Track with government oversight. Foreman Barnerd Boyle notes a million dollars of work, 260000 holes drilled, and 1600000 pounds of explosive cost projected for the expected explosion next September or later, as workers guard against floods and vent a 12 foot diameter fan.
British navy Captain Chetwynd reports experiments on oil poured into troubled waters to calm weasel danger from shipwreck. Oil helps fishing vessels and to prevent logs from ships in calm seas but offers little aid to boats passing through large breakers. It shows no significant effect on turbulent swells.
From the New Orleans Times-Democrat, the cane grows about five and a half months from April 1 to September 15 reaching about 12 feet with white joints and a top tuft. July is four feet high, August brings the fastest growth about 40 inches, and cultivation ends as the foliage shades the gobbins.
Miscellaneous remarks state Boston is 264 years old with an estimated population near 220000 and a manufacturing output up to May 31 1880 of 155805. The text mentions Diuphier Laurel from Asia and describes camphor tree cultivation in California, its timber value, propagation, and a Sacramento tree reaching thirty feet.
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