Selina DeJong Drives to Market on Halsted Road
Selina DeJong guides the decrepit wagon toward the city with a farm boy Dirk and dog Pom aboard. She recalls a past voyage with Klaas Pool and faces a journey of debt, funeral costs, and a worn farm, while neighbors watch from porches and doorways along the hot dusty road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selina
Jan
Selina DeJong
Dirk
Halsted
Pervus
Selina de- Jong
Klaas Pool
Simeon Peake
Mia. Vander Sijtle
Corvella Saip
Gelina
Ooms
Jakob Boomsma
Mis' DeJong
Boomsma
Mis’ DeJong
Chicago
Sobig
Velvet
Thirty-fifth Street
Haymarket
Dirk DeJong
Twenty-second Street
Twelfth
Randolph Street
Night Ride to Chicago A Farm Wife Seeks a New Life
Selina De Jong drives a wagon with her son Dirk from a rural farm toward Chicago Haymarket. Facing hostility and poverty, she asserts independence, fights a stall owner, sleeps in a hay-filled wagon, and seeks work at Chris Spanknoebel’s restaurant as dawn breaks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geran
Chienge
Selina
Water Street
Chicago
Chris Spanknoebel
Chris
Pervus
Dirk
Peryus
Pam
Selina Pexuke
Louisa Alcott
Dm Gottes
Miss de Jong
Jan
Where's Your Man Synopsis of So Big by Dirk DeJong
Unfolds the life of Selina DeJong born in Chicago 1883 a seamful but vivid path to womanhood. She becomes teacher at High Prairie marries farmer Pervus DeJong bears Dirk faces farm hardship and social scrutiny at Haymarket as she seeks to build a future. Roelf pursues sculpture in France as Dirk grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dirk
Selina
Chris Spanknoebel
Dirk DeJong
Selink DeJong
Simeon Peake
Chicago
Julie Hempel
August Hempel
Simeon
High Prairie School
Klaas Pool
Roelf
Klaas
Paarlenberg
Pervus DeJong
Pervus
DeJong
Seline
Vermont
Maartje Pool
France
Haymarket
Remarkable recovery cited by Forest City woman
Forest City Iowa Mrs Oscar F Borgelin reports severe back pain after a difficult birth and years of illness. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she is able to do housework milking and caring for animals while caring for an eight month old daughter.
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Oscar F. Borgelin
Forest City
Iowa
Lydia E. Pinkham
Oute No
Denver
Colorado
Helen Fine
South Washington Street
Japan plans 50000 telephones and 10000 miles toll lines
Japan announces a five year programme to extend the telephone system by installing 50000 telephones and 10000 miles of toll lines. The remark about mission work suggests a contrast between public progress and moral concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Government of
Japan
Russia Upgrades Telephone System to American Standard
Soviet plans aim to modernize Russia's telephone network to U S standards with a total estimated cost exceeding 100 million. Major American firms are being solicited by Soviet companies to participate in the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Fortune telling in the kitchen and a dangerous hotel boa
A fragment suggests Charles Good speaks of trouble with a dark woman while a Mexican hotel houses a ten foot boa constrictor replacing two house cats and a mouser, viewed as more dangerous than a cat. The text mixes superstition with an odd animal incident, hinting at local oddities.
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Edna Ferber
Doubleday, Page & Co
WNN
Seena
Chapter
Halsted Street
High Prairie
Chris Spaanknoebel
Citirch
Charles Good
Yeas
Fletcher
Af Dion
United States
Italy
Tanlac
Ferdinand
NLAC
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