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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1885
Page
7
Fragmentary verse laments unspoken love and longing for a steadfast partner. The speaker desires a confident heart watcher who can support and stand by them at the altar. The archaic diction hints at a solemn courtship and future marriage.
A tale set at a toll gate narrates a ventriloquist visiting a lonely keeper in a snowbound house. The performer, richly dressed, claims public whims fund his act and conjures a child’s cries during a sleep interrupted scene. The toll keeper recalls the eerie morning and a memory of a girl in the house hearing a distant voice.
A battered tollhouse tale recounts Mitts, a lively toll keeper's daughter, fated to a daring vigil during robberies. Two detectives intrude in a smoky night, Mitts is fatally shot while saving her foster father’s life, and the narrator vows to join her beyond the golden gates, seeking future reconciliation.
The article recounts a pistol with a clumsy appearance left in a drugstore, visitors handling it without damage, and aTyler Henry patent linked to a Winchester magazine gun. It details rival patent talks, sales offers between Henry and Winchester, and later firearm model developments culminating in the Tail Winchester rifle lineage and factory notes.
An aged Crow leader orders disguise and deceit to help children pose as Indians in New York sales of Indian reservations ink. He urges hiding faces, avoiding recognition, and sending a letter to New York offerings as stock runs low, while elders mockingly press the youths.
A Rahway resident recounted renting a New York boarding house near Barclay and Church streets where clairvoyants, mesmerism, and a young blind Mary influenced beliefs about Dr. Hathaway. After his illness worsened, Mary predicted his head injuries and postmortem examination. Hathaway died in May, with an impassioned, uncertain series of events culminating in a doctor’s death panel and a grim prognosis.
A fragmented obituary notes the neglect of General Priaen, a Revolutionary War hero who fought at Bunker Hill and helped guard West Point. It laments a missing monument to his virtues and recalls his leadership in the Army of the Highlands and his perilous early life.
A feature on railway engineers highlights dangers from rivals’ tricks and accidents. It cites cases of sabotaged oiling, burned boilers, and a fatal strangling of careers, noting a 17,000 member Locomotive Engineers Brotherhood and its Cleveland roots while recounting personal trials and a funeral sensational incident.
The World’s Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo New York offers a broad claim of curing chronic diseases through home treatment and a staff of eighteen physicians. It promotes various remedies including kidney cures and blood purifiers, with promotional notices for medical products, sale of a new hospital and advertisements from multiple companies.
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