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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1883
Page
5
Published ad terms state $2 per year in advance with SS Advertising and other charges. Transient ads must be prepaid and data must reach printer by Thursday morning. FP regular ads payable end of month. Short communications accepted if author name is provided. Time Table near end lists passenger routes by direction and commissioners.
Readable fragments describe weather hints, election calls, and small town moves. Mentions Weeks & Wells ticket ads, Kimball residents visiting, farming yields, and various local personalities from Mitchell to De Smet and Tama City. The piece blends notices, jokes, and reader anecdotes with scattered names and events.
A string of humorous and odd items appears as trivial notices. Louis Richards buys a pony, Willy and King dance, Geo Bleeser and Col Levitt host a Toot race, Lina White plans marriage, a Kimball man unaware of Waterloo, Ed Brenne delivers a July Fourth ovation, lamps added to a church, Jayne’s dog receives “cleawed up” fame, Weeks reluctant to hear a joke, Guaviue editor delivers a temperance talk, an election jaxt Saturday, and a more successful potato than Bro Willis.
A fragment describes a woman and a dog aboard a Central line train. The baggage man asks about the dog while another passenger questions how the man is doing, reflecting a scene of concern after a death and funeral arrangement aboard.
The letter argues that opening the reservation to settlement will not aid farmers or distant businessmen. it contends many local farmers lack shelter and tools, while eastern speculators would gather land without immediate need. It urges settlement for homesteads with five years of cultivation to ensure lands go to those in need, promoting broad public good.
In a pivotal Ohio election the Republicans lose control of every state office for the first time in thirty years. The piece argues the campaign narrowed to liquor regulation, condemning the party for abandoning broader freedoms and forecasting a Democratic sweep that ends decades of GOP dominance. The author notes the shift as a dire lesson for Republicans.
Community merchants advertise flour coffee pine tar and canned fruit at low prices. Local firms promote sewing machines paint white lead and holiday stock with special offers and urging customers to visit Hutchinson French Weeks Wells and Weeks Wells for bargains and new stock.
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