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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1884
Page
3
A distorted afternoon scene unfolds with garbled dialogue and jagged imagery. The speaker recalls a past love as rain falls and winds blow, feeling pride and pain in a shifting, elusive memory.
In a wintry Texas night in Corpus, Colonel Sharp guides a refined cattle queen and her wary companion through a storm and hotel stay. A Western rancher, Handsome Jack Hemming, confronts a rival, leading to a dramatic confrontation and deadly shootout that ends with the colonel praising the woman's grit and piano bravura.
A humorous Victorian piece recalls wedding mishaps and vows. It notes brides often study guidance, mispronounced words like obey, and grooms blundering at the altar. Anecdotes include clergymen, interruptions, and a cabinet minister quip about endowing worldly goods.
An 1861 Washington correspondence notes two loyal citizens, ZG. Robbing and Levi Clephano, arranging Lincoln's inauguration. Despite General Scott advising Willard's Hotel for safety, Buchanan insisted on a Capitol ceremony with guards. Robbins rode with Lincoln, later becoming District of Columbia notary and Clephano a Washington postmaster.
Harriet Martineau noted few occupations for women decades ago. Since then, openings have multiplied to over two hundred occupations with higher pay. Women increasingly fill roles once reserved for men, though demand still exceeds supply. Superior talent and tact command opportunities, while general schooling lags in preparing women for high responsibility roles.
Fragmentary OCR reveals a moral verse warning youths about disobedience. The text mentions a New England primer from 1905 bound in a pioneer library and addresses dangers to life and soul, invoking death, wrath, and obedience. The passage admonishes youth to heed preachers and shun worldly temptations.
In Jewett Road Squire Holt and his wife lure mischief-making academy boys to a humane reform. After he and Lucy invite them to their farm, the youths learn kindness yields more than theft, culminating in a barn gathering where the boys pledge loyalty and future help.
Heat waves sweep London with temperatures near 95 degrees and 97 in Greenwich as July 1831 records surge. Crowd scenes, sunstroke deaths, and alarms trigger suspensions of islands and ports amid sweltering conditions across Britain and nearby regions.
An eccentric Chicago tale shows a butcher debating value with a businessman. The scene features slapstick knife work and a theatrical meat display, ending with a sly quip about pricing and truth in trade.
In this year about 20,000 immigrants have entered the Northwent, though short of prior totals. The article notes northern and southern routes, settlers thriving under government guidance, and mentions land under cultivation. It highlights English and Celtic settlers, land schemes funded by £50 increments, and hopes for better farming prospects amid diverse origins.
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