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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1889
Page
3
Fragments describe post office hours, money orders, and general store blurbs. Included are farm product notes, prices for wheat and oats, clothing and dry goods ads, and a long column of local personal notices, events, dances, and social happenings from Kimball and nearby towns.
A Iowa audience criticizes Prohibition enforcement as overreach invading private homes and hindering lawful behavior. The piece condemns raids, blackmail by corrupt officers, and calls for balanced rules allowing legal liquor use and local manufacturing within state borders. It argues for restraint and fairness in laws governing saloons and private consumption.
A Des Moines Register editorial defends limiting saloon power as a public good. It argues the prohibition movement aimed to close drinking places, not police private habits, and recalls 1882 popular support for closing saloons where crime and vice thrived. The piece rebuts critics who conflate public policy with personal liberty while urging adherence to original temperance aims.
A Christmas program at the Presbyterian church featured Ton cantata by Santa Clana & Co and a younger pupil ensemble from the Saenay School under Mensre Bouthgate Curtiss Wyant M. E. Currens and Miam Franklin and Mrs John Haboneau. The audience overflowed and praised the music the White Lake specialties and the guitar performances. Dr T Stol linger opened with a well received address and an entertaining galect reading by D G Grip pon preceded a supper for guests who left pleased with the evening and Odd Fellows.
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