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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1886
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR reads like a local notice or brief about sheriffs balking at names or captions in an election or legal notice. The readable fragments include references to a sheriff, names such as Jamoe W and Calta, and a Saturday timing. Details remain unclear in the damaged text.
A fragment from the Kimball Graphic notes Huron securing the territorial fair location with Mitchell desired. It recounts a quack dentist in Michigan offering painful extractions with dubious tools, public fascination with a diamond tooth adornment, and a legal settlement over a life insurance policy found among Emery A. Storrs papers.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette notes that strong city newspapers like the Sioux City Journal and Des Moines Register aid urban development. It criticizes stingy advertisers while praising those who invest in papers, asserting such patrons sustain journalistic vitality and local progress.
A lengthy print of Abraham Boynton’s proposed Dakota admission bill is denounced as undemocratic and harmful, aiming to delay Dakota rights and grant Congress control to bene t monied interests. It outlines a December convention in Bismarck to draft a constitution, with delegates from counties and a $25,000 appropriation, bypassing direct popular ratification.
A brief history outlines Michigan’s path to statehood amid a push by Dakota and Arkansas to gain admission. It covers conventions in Detroit and Ann Arbor, the frost bitten congress, Mason and Munny’s early administrations, and the boundary deal tied to Ohio, with Congress finally admitting Michigan on January 26, 1837 under specific conditions.
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