16 Jan 1885
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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1885
Page
1
Newspaper notice outlining advertising rates and terms for The Kimball Graphic. It details payment schedules for regular and transient ads, disclaimer on insertions without instructions, and submission deadlines for communications to the printer. Includes note on job work and authorship for short communications.
The article extols Kimball as the best located town in Southern Dakota near the center of Brule County, set in prime farming and stock country. It claims this status is proven by the magnificent crops of recent years, emphasizing strong agricultural proof.
The town sits on the Main Line of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad, 48 miles west of Mitchell and 22 miles east of Chamberlain. It boasts a public school, churches, a first-class post office, two banks, two hotels, a large grain elevator with ground material for expansion, three lumber yards, several blacksmith shops, and ample livery stables and stores. The text notes strong investment inducements as the country seeks growth and new residents.
Beautiful town feature notes the Brule County Agricultural Fair Grounds adjoining the townsite with a good half mile track and regarded as one of the best air grounds in the Territory.
Proprietor outlines three adjoining additions with continue street plans and macre lots to suit all buyers. Main Street blocks remain for sale to business seekers with inducements offered. Dakota climate praised as mild as Ohio Indiana Illinois with ample rainfall and pure water, urging potential settlers to inquire for address.
The great seal moved from Yankton to Bismarck while a beer house burnings, court actions, and militia plans ripple across Dakota. Franks J Drew of Grand Forks distributed 300 loaves New Year dawn. Officials discuss a soldiers home plan as Dakota spends 640000 on schoolhouses and holds 75000000 in school lands.
Excerpts recount fortifications at Fort Donelson in 1862 with detailed fieldworks and guns. A Scots preacher Patrick Smellie features in a humorous biographical sketch, highlighting his verbose sermons and popular reception.
In Clinton and Avon towns of the Litchfield Mountains ground woodchuck bounties sparked a scheme. Avon paid 50 cents per woodchuck with tail proof and Canton required ears. A swap of ears for tails meant one woodchuck earned double, prompting officials to halt bounties as farmers grew indignant.
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