Selina DeJong Takes School Post in 1880s Chicago Suburbs
In chapters II to V of So Big, Selina DeJong, heiress-born yet destitute after a fatal quarrel, becomes a High Prairie schoolteacher near Chicago. She befriends Roelf Pool, encounters gossip about the Widow Paarlenberg and Pervus DeJong, and begins a quiet romance as she navigates loneliness and unmatched social worlds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dirk DeJong
Selina DeJong
Imeon Peake
Chicago
Julie Hempel
August Hempel
Simeon
Selina
High Prairie Hool
Klaas Pool
Roelf
Klaas
Ceres
Paarlenberg
Pervus DeJong
DeJong
Elina
Widow Paarlenberg’s Basket Auction Sparks Doorstep Drama
In High Prairie a dramatic auction unfolds as an enormous hamper is wheeled into view. Adam Ooms presides with a potato masher gavel while Pervus De Jong and Gerrit Pon bid, amid crowding barter and colorful local banter. The Widow Paarlenberg sits poised as suspense builds.
Dramatic Auction of Roast Duck Hampers in High Prairie
A lively auction ends with Goris Van Vuuren paying eighty five cents for a hamper as Adam Ooms reveals Selina's white shoe box as the prize, while Pervus DeJong and Widow Paarlenberg watch. The crowd erupts in laughter at the unexpected reveal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam
Selina
Maartje
Roelf
Paarlenberg
Widow Paarlenberg
Pervus DeJong
Gerrit Pon
Goris van Vuuren
Haarlem
Adam Ooms
DeJong
van Vuuren
Goris
Teacher
Classified notices and farm ad blurbs in Illinois poultry and nursing ads
A collage of 1920s era classified items including want adlets for constipation cure, Illinois accredited pure bred chicks with postpaid live delivery, hatcheries in Earlville Monticello and Kirksville, nursing course at University Hospital School of Nursing in Chicago, farm opportunities in Wisconsin and Kansas, an oil colored enlargement offer, canary food, patterns and machine work services, and a cattle investment pitch. Names include Prof L C Smith and Chas W Norris. locations Chicago Earlville Monticello Iola Terre Haute Kirksville Waupun. prices and contact hints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University Hospital School OF Nursing
Medical Center of
Chicago
University Hospital
Lincoln St
Illinois
Gummed labels and seed corn ads for farms and schools
Multiple classified items advertise gummed address labels from Eastern Label Co of Clin tonville Connecticut, seed corn from Northern Illinois Seed Co of Round Lake, and nurse training programs by American Training School in Chicago. Also offers Jersey cows and bulls from Jas. Winsor Morris Illinois, and Holstein cattle from Sauk County Holstein Breeders Assn Reedsburg Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murdock
Minn
Northern Illinois Seed Co
Round Lake
Sauk County Holstein Breeders’ Assn
N. T. Gill, Sec’y
Reedsburg
Wisconsin
FREE and ad offers fill odd classified page list
A collage of small advertisements and notices for services and goods. Includes an indirection claim about indigestion cures, stamped name pads, polled Hereford bulls for sale, land for sale or trade in Arkansas and Mississippi Delta, a steady work CapQla Tenier, home writing lessons, apartment exchange, long distance radio sets, agents opportunity, truck or chicken farm on Chicago’s west side, an equity taker for 160 acre farm, and orders for shoes direct from manufacturers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington R. R
Chicago
Ogden Ave
South Slope
Roy C. Khohler
Drexel Av
Hyde Park
Hardwood ashes improve orchards and gardens
Free circular offers guidance on using hardwood ashes to improve orchards lawns flower gardens pastures meadows and crops. Advertises agents in Peterborough Ontario and a first class trees and plants catalogue from Clever Aurora Nursery Aurora Mo dated 2 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Stevens
Peterborough
Ontario
Clever Aurora Nursery
Aurora, Mo
Money making farm for sale in De Smet South Dakota
160 acre well improved farm fenced with large grove and good water joins city limits in a town of about 1800. Write for terms and more description to Chas Walstrom De Smet S Dakota. Also ads for Navajo milk and Illinois land listings with Blake D C Emerson Peoria Life Building and other farm listings and breeders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas, Walstrom
de Smet
S. Dak
Illinois
Farmington
Peoria
D. C. Emerson
Peoria Life Bldg
Heaney Magic Co ad offers catalog and magic items
A compact ad invites readers to write Joseph O'Brien in Newtonville Mississippi or Heaney Magic Co in Berlin Wisconsin for a 224 page illustrated catalog and a bargain magic book priced at 25 cents. The notice lists entertainers and stage magic goods including mind reading and ventriloquist figures.
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Heaney Magic Co
Berlin
Wistf
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Edna
Ferber
Clark Agnew
Doubleday, Page & Co
Johannes Ambaul
Ambaul
Olyphant
Penna
International and
Illinois Chick Association
Earlville Hatchery
Earlville
Ill
Chas. W. Norris
Monticello
Guernsey
Edgewood Farms
Whitewater
Wis
A. B. Hugo Co
Enid, Oklahoma
Raymond J. Rood
Waupun
J. G. Keefe
E. 47Th St
Iola
Kans
Write Modern Machine & Pattern Co
Terre Haute
Ind
C. S. Brannin
Quemade
N. M
HI Quality Hatching CO
Kirksville, Mo
Eastern Label Co
Clintonville
Conn
American Training School
N. la Salle Street
Jersey
Jas. Winsor
Morris, Ill
Burbank
J. H. Movius
Lidgerwood
N. D
Central Agency
E. 71St
Nixon Tag Co
Wisconsin Rapids
Thos. Ircens
Cooperstown
N. Dak
Madeline Unger
Dept
Quincy Street
Pomona Calif
Clarence M. Watts
Ottawa
Little Rock
Ark
P. J. Thibodeaux
Washington
Capqla Tenier
Paragon Foundries Co
Oregon
L. Marlay
la Porte
Southern Farm
P. O
Alex
Washington Blvd
Oak ‘Park
W. Schule CO
East 12
New York City
Doran
Sherburne
St. Paul
Mason Shoe Mfg. Co
9Th Avenue
Chippewa, Falls
Walter Zukowski
West St. Paul Street
Spring Valley, Illinois
Professional Directory
C. D. Grassel
Optometrist
First Street
la Salle
Florence
Thompson's
A LA Carte
Lil’s Eat Shop
Edward Peters
Bell
Peru, Illinois
Navajo Milk CO
Galesburg
J. Burlington Rigg
Vocalion
Lyceum
Chautauqua
van Buren St
Landis Kennels
Mohnton
P. B. Giachetto
U. S
Peoria St
C. A. Jensen
LA Salle Theatre
la Salle, Ill
Cassiday Bros
Spring Valley
Joseph O’brien
Nevada St
Newtonville, Miss
Sally and
Spuds
J. A. Shere
Woolworth
ILA Salle
H. W. Toranson
Over Spring Valley Drug Store
Chinks Place
Dakota Street
Hicks Park
J. E. Carlson
la Salle National Bank
DR. Olmsted
Peru
Bertrand
East St. Paul St
R. K. McColl & Son
Princeton, Illinois
John Paokup
Erie St
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