Selina in High Prairie field work and family shocks
Selina works in the fields to support her family while confronting loss and upheaval in High Prairie. Maartje Pool dies in childbirth, and Roelf grows restless, leading to his departure for Chicago and a whispered future. Selina hides money for Roelf and bids him farewell as marriage changes the household.
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High Prairie
Maartje Pool
Selina
Maartje
Rube
Scratch
Klaas Pool
Geertje
Jozina
Roelf
fLlaas
Pool
Klaus
Paarlenberg
Rairie
Pervus
Chicago
Selina Peake
Seliina
Pervus DeJong
Selina DeJong Drives to Market in Bold Venture
Selina DeJong, widowed with a nine year old Dirk, endures toil and doubt as she drives a worn wagon toward Chicago. She envisions earnings from hand scrubbed truck crops to pay funeral costs and support Dirk, showing a steadfast, adventurous spirit amid High Prairie neighbors' murmurs.
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Selina
DeJong
Pervus
West Sixteen
Dirk
High Prairie
Lina
Ilinois
Jan
Jan Steen
Chicago
Selina Liternlly
West
Halsted Road
Selina DeJong
Halsted
Vander Sijtle
Cornelia
Ooms
Jakob Boomsma
Mis’ DeJong
Mr. Boomsma
Wheat Harvesting Accelerated Ten Days In Oklahoma Fields
Oklahoma City June 12 Harvesting of wheat is now in full progress and was advanced from ten days to two weeks due to unusual crop conditions. Claude E Connally state commissioner of labor and director of the federal employment service for Oklahoma said the unexpected ripening created a temporary labor shortage but sufficient statewide labor existed and workers moved from the southeast to western and northwest fields. Dreath and hot winds sped ripening forcing harvest two weeks earlier than ever before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Claude E. Connally
Federal Employment Service For
Oklahoma
Connally
Funeral planned for Warren S Stone head of engineers
Cleveland dispatch reports Warren S Stone 65 longtime head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and its allied enterprises will be honored with a funeral Monday. Stone died of Brights disease after guiding the union and its banks through significant growth and wage negotiations. Oberlin College planned to award him a Master of Arts degree the same day.
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Cleveland, O
Warren Sanford Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Oberlin College
Stone
Bright
Rock Island Railroad
Eldon
Iowa
International Labor Organization
Labor
First National Bank
America
Mr. Stone
International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
P. M. Arthur
Winnipeg
Man
Cleveland
Chicago
Engineers’ Brotherhood
The
Engineers
Brotherhood
Bandits Sought After Bank Hold Up in Arkansas
Authorities in Arkansas and Missouri hunted three of five men who robbed the Sulphur Springs bank yesterday. The exchange of gunfire wounded L M Stout bank president and two highwaymen. Two escapees, John Burchfield and Boyd Jewell, were captured after their car hit a tree five miles west of Sulphur Springs.
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Bentonville
Ark
Arkansas
Missouri
Bank of
Sulphur Springs
Burchfield
Arkansas Penitentiary
Little Rock
Tom Slaughter
Sapulpa
Okla
American National
Bank of Bristow
Here
J. A. Mosier
Edwin Johnson
Installation of Fire Escapes and Repairs
The notice outlines stallation of fire escapes and necessary repairs to surrounding buildings to comply with safety standards.
HARGIS AND WALKER TO GET REWARD FOR CAPTURE
Police officials Chief Sam Hargis and Sheriff W B Walker will receive a reward for the arrest of Claude Truett in Ardmore. Truett, wanted for shooting a policeman, was captured in a local Ardmore restaurant and taken there Sunday after officers learned of the reward. The amount is unrevealed but expected this week.
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Police
Sam Hargis
W. B. Walker
Claude Truett
Ardmore
Hargis
Walker
Pruett
Arrdmore
Prominent Sulphur Man Dies Sudden Heart Cause
J. E. Simmons, prominent Sulphur citizen, died suddenly here from heart disease. He is survived by his widow and daughter Miss Isabelle Simmons, a teacher at the Oklahoma school for the deaf in Sulphur.
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Sulphur
J. E.simmons
Isabelle Simmons
Oklahoma School For the Deaf
Bridge rebuilding near Tyrola makes rapid progress
Work on the Canadia river railroad bridge near Tyrola is nearing completion. Crews have labored for months to install a steel and concrete structure across the stream, according to A. A. O. C. railroad local offices.
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Canadia
Tyrola
Banker Is Sentenced for Insolvent Bank Deposits
Waite Hudson, former Park Hill banker, found guilty of accepting deposits in the Park Hill Farmers State Bank while knowing it insolvent. Sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary and fined $5,000 by a district court jury in Tahlequah.
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Tahlequah
Waite Hudson
Park Hill
Park Hill Farmers State Bank
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Edna Ferber
Doubleday, Page & Co
WNU Service
Infanta Eulalie
Spain
Infanta
Angus
Chapter
Sebig DeJong
Sobig
Haymarket
Selina de Jong
Simeon Peake
W. S. Stone
Brotherhood of Engineers
First Brotherhood Co-operative Band
Tion
Emerson
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