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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1884
Page
2
The piece surveys wheat shortages with prices and land rents in UK farming, notes calm country mood despite heated campaigns and a fading presidential race, mentions Mrs Beive A. Lockwood and suffrage hopes, British flag shifts on Philadelphia steamers, Galway trade hints, and a Washington conference on Greenwich meridian for longitude with 21 governments likely to ratify.
A sprawling late nineteenth century dispatch covers fires, deaths, and accidents across Ohio Minnesota Iowa and Illinois. It reports a deadly mine fire near Worthington while detailing wrecks in Chicago and St Paul. Also noted are political remarks in Britain and Ireland, a typhoon aftermath in Yokohama, and vast land sales in Dakota Minnesota and Kansas with official data on acres claimed.
A garbled poem fragment presents imagery of pain weariness and longing. It speaks of worn duties and inner conflict. The speaker expresses fatigue with rigid obligation and seeks simple joys beyond reach, touching on love and emotional strain.
Mme de Beaulien, twice married to prospering men, receives a New York letter from the presumed dead Jacques Torey. Torey confesses his feigned ruin and planned return, while a crafty village philanthropist plots to preserve his own fortune. The widow’s loyalties and social circles collide as a clandestine scheme unfolds.
A long awaited case unfolds as M Torey, believed dead in France, is implicated in a grave crime after disguising and transporting a corpse in a plot to reclaim his wealth. The motive centers on divorce, remarriage, and competing loyalties as plans shift to an American divorce and new alliance.
A collage of short notes on mineral exploration advancing since 1871 in New South Wales with tin silver iron lead asbestos and bismuth added to coal bale gold copper antimony. Reports on American iodide of potassium quality in New York and a severe cotton mill failure near River, Massachusetts. London fire department efficiency versus New York sparks debate. Cheap jewelry from rolled gold explained with its poor gold content and wear lifespan.
An interview from the London Telegraph recounts divers exploring wrecks such as the Korfarshire near a windswept island. It explains underwater visibility, darkness, and how divers communicate by lying chest to chest and listening through the surroundings at about eleven fathoms depth.
A correspondent recounts a tale of a small gray spotted snake kept in a glass globe and later joined by a larger black snake. The black serpent swallowed the other in a dramatic feeding, stretching, biting, and coiling before finally digesting the prey. The account ends with the author releasing the survivor after observing its recovery. Also noted is a line about 87,987 Prussian youths leaving to avoid military service.
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