03 Sep 1886
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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1886
Page
1
The Kimball Graphic announces advertising terms and rates including monthly payment for regular ads and prepaid transient ads. It notes deadlines for next issue submissions and offers job printing on short notice with reasonable rates, encouraging short communications with author attribution.
The Nashville Union correspondent reports on the 24th of June rites near Lake Pontchartrain, describing the voodoo cult led by Alice Lesouer known as the mother. The account details ritual fires, offerings, and a dance as witnesses recall the St John’s Eve spectacle, and ties a death to hoodoo beliefs amid the local black community and curious whites.
A dog owner is liable for damage caused by a savage or dangerous animal depending on knowledge of propensities and provocation. A ferocious dog at large may be killed. liability varies if the dog bites due to owner negligence, provocation, or a well trained dog acting under master direction.
Matildy Snowball a colored Austin woman applies for a cook job at Mrs Col Yerger. She names room and wages then lists days for church orders and group meetings. She requests $15 a month while discussing time away and Sundays. A dark shadow passes the Verger mansion gate.
Two rival Indianola undertakers engage in a lively price war with incentives for funeral parties. Johnston and McGowan cut metallic casket prices to unseen lows in the county while Walt Richey boasts a new hearse team of showy bay horses praised for stride and safety. Des Moines Saturday News.
In Texas Siftings Dauber the artist voices a private grudge against Bondelipper the banker. He discusses a scheme to torment him by painting his portrait to make him a perpetual object of ridicule.
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