Ten Dollars by Nopsie Ho Big and Selina DeJong
In 1888 Chicago Selina DeJong nineteen and nearly destitute secures a teaching post at High Prairie School after her gambler grandfather Simeon is killed in a quarrel. She forms a kinship with Klaas Pool's son while gossip swirls around the Widow Faarlenberg and Pervus DeJong as a community auction lunchbox provokes derision.
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Nopsie
Ho Big
Dirk DeJong
Selina DeJong
Simeon Peake
Chicago
Julie Hempel
August Hempel
Simeon
Selina
Belina
Auction Box Drops High Prairie Into Awe
Selina Perke stands on the soap box at High Prairie and faces a raucous crowd as a bidding war drives the prize wine colored cashmere and the lunch she brought toward ten dollars. Pervus De Jong wins the bid, lifting Selina’s humiliation into a moment of pride while Roelf watches. Selina offers to teach De Jong after hours and in return he may repay with work and study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belioa
High Prairie
Selling Peake
Selina Perke
Johannes Ambaul
Selina
Roelf
Pervus de Jong
Pervas DeJong
Adam Qota
Haymarket
Pergus DeJong
Rock
Klaas Pool
Manrtje Pool
Pervus DeJong
Pervuga DeJong
Bix
DeRoo
DeJong
Nina
Bidi
Adam Ooms
Atalanta
Chicago
Huba
Christie's
Adam Ooman Hall
Low Prairie
New Haarlem
Rithmatte
Paul
Pervus DeJong Returns to Selina for Evening Lessons
Selina rekindles lessons with Pervus DeJong as Roelf pulls away to work. The farm life, growing spring, and Selina’s conflicted feelings intensify when Pervus arrives after a missed meeting, their study by oilcloth, and the kitchen lamp glows over taffy making.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selina
Roelf
Julie
Kansas
Arnold
Julia
Maartje
Klan
Low Prairie
Sailna
Jakob
Br. DeJong
Geortje
Jozina
Pervus DeJong
Proposers Pervuse and Selina in dispute over match
Pervuse leads as the favored man while questions rise about Ing-Pervus or Selina as the proposer. Details remain unclear as parties contest the role and intentions in the effort.
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Pervuse
Pervus
Selina
Satisfied governor reviews new county prison gallows
The governor finally toured a newly built gallows and drop pit at a county prison and asked the head jailer about any trouble in carrying out death sentences. The jailer replied there had been no complaints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Appetite Hunt Inspires Early Morning Exchange
A landowner strolling at dawn meets an Irish porter and poacher in a humorous Montreal tale. The landowner asks about his banner and appetite, while the Irishman answers he too seeks breakfast for his appetite, ending in a playful exchange about hunger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Pat
Done Barber What shell I put on your head sir
Customer complains about a joke request and asks for a baseball bat as a prop changing a barber shop scene into a playful exchange.
California Fig Syrup Ad Reassures Parents
An old advertisement urges mothers to give California Fig Syrup to constipated children, claiming it sweetens the stomach and starts the bowels without griping. It notes no narcotics and warns to avoid counterfeit products by insisting on genuine California Fig Syrup with directions.
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California
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Edna Ferber
Doubleday, Page & Co
Whnu Service
Chapter
Pool
McBride
Duffy
Ooms
Pervus de- Yong
Roalf
Bia
Eli
Doan
Texas
Freawan
Wharton
Foster-Milburn Co
Mig. Chem
Buffalo
Beo Bugs
Rds
Commice & CO
Baltimore
Nico Hinde
Gal
Jonsea
Anangee Gomfort
Tha Tech
Bilscox
Dickey
Druggsists
Mall Dickey Drug CO
Bristel
Tesa
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