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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1885
Page
8
A local boast from Kimball touts Brule County as the center of Southern Dakota, surrounded by the best farming country in the world. It argues that recent years’ magnificent crops prove the region’s superiority for agriculture and stock raising.
The location lies on the Main Line of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad, 48 miles west of Mitchell and 22 miles east of Chamberlain. It features a fine public school, churches, a first class post office, two banks, two hotels, a large grain elevator with material on hand for more, three lumber yards, smith shops, livery stables, and stores across trades. The text notes strong local opportunity with incentives to invest for enterprising people.
The Brule County Agricultural Fair Grounds adjoins the townsite and is described as one of the territory’s best fair grounds with a good half mile track.
A brisk note on rapid growth and investment opportunities in the town. Sparks interest in new projects, commerce, and development, urging readers to act as the community expands.
D Warner proprietor of the original townsite has platted three adjoining additions with streets and alleys. Part of the lots are offered at 45 cents to attract home buyers. Main Street blocks remain for business prospects and extra inducements are offered. The Dakota climate is praised as mild as Ohio Indiana Illinois with ample rainfall and pure water. the notice encourages inquiries for details.
A fragmented notice notes G J Ross M D Paysiplas Ante Amagyan advancing from Olfiew asl corporary translyiyee vipatiline corner of int and Mate St. in the city and county. It lists seventeen youth with experience and mentions the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati and the Ancient Society of Town.
A schooner R Bowers bound for Gloucester from Messina reports calm seas on June 1884. Mate Cruikshank writes a love note in a bottle which travels forty one days to Cape Breton where it is found by a relative of Cruikshank’s, linking to a Norfolk Bay tale of coincidence.
An inposed essay in the Cincinnati Enquirer argues women shoulder much of life’s adjustability. It notes wives mold to jealous lovers and cranky husbands, praising female self denial and citing a Barnum show anecdote with Nala Damajante.
The Boston Traveler reflects on true friendship and the rare gift of entering another’s life. It praises Margaret Fuller’s keen insight and sympathetic power to counsel and educate, noting Emerson’s praise of her ability to hear expressions and reveal inner capabilities.
A humorous old clipping recounts Miss Mary Shoemaker provoking baker Loren F. Bishop with a dare over a license. They marry the same day after strolling to the county clerk, while the piece also covers the Dead Letter Office and hair care fashions with trivia about misdirected mail and postal practices.
An 1880s medical discussion extols nasal breathing and forced respiration for sedentary patients, citing Dr J H Tyndall and practical home routines. The piece then shifts to a vivid narrative of a sick girl Daisy and her brother, ending with a somber reflection on illness, loss, and a mother’s grief as a fever claims the child. A final essay notes the decline of American humor and jokes through 1885, contrasting past and present topics with statistics and a nod to roller skates as hope.
An inquiry led by Mr. Beecher's paper suggests no more than 5 percent of urban Americans regularly attend religious services. The article argues that business men of moderate means and clerks also show low attendance, claiming the finding is worse than any previously presented.
J H Watson from Popular Science discusses routines for the elderly focused on light meals and regular timing. He advises a coffee and dry toast upon waking to prevent faintness, a noon light lunch, dinner by four, and supper early, with meals spaced and easily digestible. He notes elderly sleepers are light and suggests keeping bouillon and crackers by the bed to aid overnight rest and avoid prolonged hunger.
The article lists a small group of Waterloo officers still living. Names include Gen G Whichcote then a lieutenant in the fifty second Infantry General the Earl of Albemarle Eu Twenty seventh Foot Lieutenant Colonel W Hewett Captain Ninety Second Highlanders Lieutenant Colonel B P B Browne Cornet in Eleventh Light Dragoons Lieutenant Colonel Basil Jackson late Lieutenant Royal Staff Corps and Mr J N Hibbert of Chalfont Bucks then a captain in the Kings Dragoon Guards.
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