So Ble A Roelf Poole Tale of Selina DeJong
A synopsis of Selina DeJong daughter of Selina Peake, set in Chicago in 1888. She becomes a schoolteacher after her fortune changes following her father Simeon’s death in a quarrel. Selina, nineteen and nearly destitute, lives near Chicago with Klaas Ol a truck farmer while forming a bond with her school chum Julio Hempel.
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So Ble
Dirk DeJong
Selina DeJong
Simeon Peake
Chicago
Julio Hempel
August Hempel
Simeon Ia
Salina
Selina
High Prairie School
Klaas Ol
Selina Teaches On a Dutch Farm in New World Oddities
Selina moves into Maartje Pool’s Dutch farm and begins life as a schoolteacher. She unpacks in a chilly room, tours a bride’s chest, and meets Roelf the farm boy as she adjusts to remote chores, customs, and loneliness before dawn.
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Selina
Maartje
Maartje Pool
Klaas Pool
Mrs. Pool
Bellon
Manartie
Sophia
Sophia Kroon DeVries
Se- Nona
Ched Maartje Pool
New York
Milwaukee
Jakob Hoogendunck
Geertje
Jozina
Roelf
Maurice
Selima
Seliun
Woorden
Chicago
Se Ina
Simeon Peake
Geertjes
Jozinas
Roelfs
Selina Discovers Kin Dred Soul in Roelf
Selina finds a kin dred soul in Roelf who also believes cabbage is beautiful.
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Selina
Roelf
Cabbage
Contracted Cold at a Billy Sunday Revival
A La Follette Tennessee resident reports that after attending Billy Sunday’s Knoxville revival he caught a cold that weakened him. He credits Peruna with restoring his health after taking three bottles, praising it as a system builder and catarrh remedy. The notice touts Pe-ru-Na bark tablets and liquid form and urges readers to buy the original treatment.
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A. R. Wilson
la Follette
Tenn
Billy Sunday
Knoxville
Peat Fertilizer Potential Highlighted by Survey
The geological and economic survey of North Carolina notes peat deposits as a largely domestic nitrogen source. Large fertilizer supplies could be obtained from peat deposits in other regions and exhausted farmland could be reclaimed economically by using peat as fertilizer.
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Geological and Economic Survey of
North Carolina
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills Featured at 3739 Pearl Street
An advertisement promotes Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills as a remedy for acid stomach heartburn and nausea. It lists the product and the address 3739 Pearl Street N. Adv.
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Wright
Pearl St
Town Decrees Fines for Unauthorized Haircuts
In a town near Sao Maulo Brazil the mayor fined barbers 50 tmillrels for cutting a woman’s hair without permission from her father husband or male head of family. The penalty implies state control over women’s personal grooming in local law.
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Sao Maulo
Brazil
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Edna Ferber
Oubleday, Page & Co
WNU
Roelf Pool
Manrtie Pool
Julie
Miss Water
Manrtjel
Og Heden
Munartje
Etairs
Sellna
Manutje
Klaas Fool
Klass Pool
A. R- Wilson
LaFollatte, Tenn
Geriona
Atlanta
Medicina
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