Selina Finds Refuge in Dutch Farmhouse
Selina, queasy with homesickness, settles into Maartje Pool's Dutch farm in Chicago's memory. She unpacks visuals of family, clothes, and photos while adjusting to a crowded kitchen, pork suppers, and wary hosts. Her room becomes a rare haven as she contends with unfamiliar speech and manners.
So Big Roelf Pool Synopsis in Chicago 1988
Selina DeJong, daughter of gambler Simeon Peake, grows up in Chicago in 1988 with a seamy yet enjoyable life. At nineteen she is nearly destitute, befriends Julie Hempel, and takes a teaching position at High Prairie school near Chicago, living with truck farmer Klaas Pool after Simeon is killed in a quarrel not his own.
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So Big
Dirk DeJong
Selina DeJong
Simeon Peake
Chicago
Julie Hempel
August Hempel
Simeon
Selina
High Prairie School
Klaas Pool
Hidden Dutch Bride Chest Unearthed in Attic
Selina and Maartje Pool explore a two hundred year old Dutch chest in a boarding house. They discover a bride’s wardrobe including gown, cap, shoes, and a delicate carved panel stating Sophia Kroon DeVries. Selina dreams of dressing in it while Maartje cautions against it.
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Selina
Fee Room
Maartje
Se Una
Maartje Pool
Kines Pool
Mrs. Pool
Sophia
Sophia Kroon DeVries
le- Maa
Volendam
Weil
Selina Begins Teaching in a New World of Cabbages
Selina, unsettled by a night in a strange house, discovers Roelf reading a dictionary and confronts her own fear as dawn reveals her first day as a schoolteacher. The scene shifts from a tense kitchen to the cold bedroom, where she gathers courage for Geerties and Jozinas in the classroom.
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Roelf
Maartje
Woorden
Selina
Overseysteria
Chicago
Simeon Peake
Geerties
Jozinas
Roelfs
Selina Discovers Kin Dred Soul in Reelf
Selina discovers a kin dred soul in Reelf who believes cabbages are beautiful. The remark hints at local sentiment and a quirky character in the town.
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Selina
Reelf
Scientific Future Love and the Synthetic Romance
A Toledo Blade cartoon imagines a future marriage procedure where a young man with medical tools conducts a playful, clinical courtship. He taps a vein and listens to the heart and lungs, tests feet, and seeks a kiss via hygienized means, mocking future technological dating rituals.
Mosart Burial Fact Sparks Local Interest
A fragmentary report notes that Mosart is buried and stirs local curiosity about the burial site. The brief mentions no names beyond Mosart and provides limited context about the event.
Home Cookery Notes From A Late Summer Menu
A compact excerpt lists fruit cheese methods plus classic kitchen preparations. It covers making fruit cheeses from peaches or plums, home yeast, almond cream sauce, lobster salad with French dressing, chicken baked in cream, peach whip, and pickles including mustard and sweet varieties. It reads like a vintage homemaking guide with practical steps and measurements.
Home Yeast Contest Winners Named Across Iowa
The Home Yeast word contest drew extensive participation in Iowa with 82 words in the Chicago company's record surpassed. Winners received prizes from 25 to 1 dollar, led by Leila S. Olmstead Parkersburg with 25 and Richard Mulder Parkersburg as grocer prize winner. The ad promotes Home Yeast as fast rising and offers a free booklet and sample, inviting dealers to a new three month proposition.
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Iowa
Home Yeast Company
Chicago
Leila S. Olmstead
Parkersburg
Rosa Yeaman
Tilton
Candace Packard
Trenwick
Janet Tidvick
Mt. Ayr
James S. Harris
Avoca
Walter Melroy
Winterset
Myrtie Abernathy
Kirkville
Helen Brooke
Agnes Bloom
Milo
Florence Kimzey
A. R. Desch
Spencer
M. J. Donovan
Perry
Geo. Schurr
Straban
Ora Werts
New Market
Richard Mulder
Starkey
Montrose Avenue
Ill
Reverted to Old Breakfast Standby
Three cattlemen from near Dodge City Kansas shipped cattle to Kansas City and bet on who would be the breakfast loser. The loser would order a $5 breakfast for the others. At Blossom House the men debated the menu and, in final quiver, the host requested the waitress to bring ham and eggs for each man worth $5.
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Dodge City
Kan
Kansas City
Blossom House
Roosevelt Names Portsmouth for Peace Conference Site
President Roosevelt selected Portsmouth New Hampshire as the conference venue for envoys of Russia and Japan to frame a peace treaty due to its climate. The summer meeting was chosen to avoid excessive heat and hardship compared with other proposed locations.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Roosevelt
Russia
Japan
Prayer gesture as instinct and convention in begging
The text argues that holding hands in prayer is a natural instinctive pose used by a weaker person to beg a favor from a more powerful, and that clasping hands is simply a conventional form of this universal attitude.
Lady of Distinction Says Perfume Influences Image
An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap and hot bath to cleanse pores followed by Cuticura Talcum powder for clear sweet healthy skin. It frames fragrance as a mark of refinement and distinction in social presence.
Fortune Gift Sparks Family Debate
A brief dialogue reveals a dispute over accepting expensive gifts from a man, with Marjorie defending the gesture and Mrs Roberts urging caution about propriety. The exchange highlights differing views on generosity and social propriety in a domestic setting.
Persian Phone Decree Cited With Erratic Wording
A garbled OCR fragment hints at a decree related to Persia and telephone lines marked by errors and scattered phrases. The readable bits imply official action on communications, but specifics such as date, agency, or outcome are not evident.
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Doubleday, Page & Co
WIU
Julie
Miss Fister
Prigtalis
Moelf
Klass Pool
Klass
New York
Milwaukee
Jakob Hoogendonk
Pool
Geertje
Jozina
Mia
Roelf Pool
Tober
Mostart
Western New
Tavaper Union
James Russell Lowell
Persia