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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1925
Page
8
Edna Ferber praised as a leading fiction writer with popular stories and successful novels. The piece highlights So Big as perhaps her best, a major 1924 success with vivid portraits of real people and Chicago life.
Selina DeJong grows up in a nomadic Illinois farming family with a Dutch Chicago backdrop. Her father Simeon Peake, a gambler by habit, exposes her to books and theater while Selina chafes at domestic limits. After years of travel and schooling, tragedy strikes as Simeon is shot in a Chicago locale linked to a bon vivant publisher.
A concise note contrasts sloth with industry, suggesting laziness hinders progress while steady effort facilitates easier outcomes. The item frames work ethic as a practical force shaping daily tasks and goals.
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