So Big Chapter Openings Set in Chicago and Rural Life
Synopsis of early chapters follows Selina DeJong a destitute young teacher in 1888 Chicago and countryside. She befriends Roelf Pool in Roelf and becomes involved with Pervus DeJong the farmer as gossip and social auctions unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dirk DeJong
Selina DeJong
Simneon Peake
Chicago
Julie Hempel
August Hempel
Simeon
Selina
High Prairie School
Klaas Pool
Roelf
Klaas
Selina Peake’s Box Auction At High Prairie Social
In a crowded High Prairie auction of a dainty box for two, Selina Peake is bid up from five cents to ten dollars as onlookers swoon over the turning of a humble item into beauty. Pervus DeJong and others push the crowd’s gaze toward her, and the room witnesses a dramatic social moment around the schoolteacher's gift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selina
Paarlenberg
Pervus DeJong
DeJong
Elina
High Prairie
Miss Selina Peake
Selina Peake
Johannes Ambaul
Moelf
Pervus De‘Jong
Adam Ooms
Roelf
Klaas Pool
Maartje Pool
Ten-Dollar Jelly Cupcakes Sell Amid Prairie Auction
In a village auction Barend DeRoo bids against Pervus DeJong and others for a basket of cupcakes. The boy’s high-pitched shouts push the price to ten dollars, a sum seen as more than food, reflecting years of hard labor and market toil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pervus DeJong
Adam Ooms
Atalanta
Chicago
Classified Want Ads From Rockford to Chicago
A collection of historical want ad notices including real estate offers in Rockford Illinois and Chicago Illinois farm exchange inquiries, sewing machine requests, egg prices, radio school ads, land sales in Indiana and Minnesota, poultry hatchery promotions, and miscellaneous business contact details. The items reference Carl O Johnson Co Inc Imm services White Brown Hennery Blum Doner Fugitt Co and W H Geiger Hatchery with dates and locations.
Miller Poultry Farm offers baby chicks and eggs
Standard Employment Agency supplies free reliable farm hands. Baby chicks and hatching eggs shipped COD at 100 percent with live delivery. Miller Poultry Farm, Nappanee, Ind., Route 20. 8-26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard Employment Agency
W. Madison Street
Chicago
Monroe
Miller Poultry Farm
Nappanee
Ind
Wonder Instrument and farm goods ad roundup
A compact page fragment lists diverse notices and ads. Patent pending Wonder Instrument from Multitone Co appeals to amateurs, while soybeans priced at 2.50 per bushel in Manchu and Midwest markets. Also ads for corn seeds, farm seeds, broken crockery, bargain bulletins, motorcycles parts, a dairy price list, and related supplier addresses.
University Hospital School of Nursing Offers Accredited Training
The University Hospital School of Nursing in Chicago provides an accredited program in theoretical and practical nursing for young women. Includes comfortable rooms, board, laundry, uniforms, and a cash allowance during training. applicants may enter anytime. a Nurses' Registry offers postgraduates work opportunities. for information contact Supt., 432 Sc Lincoln St., Chicago, Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University Hospital School OF Nursing
Medical Center of
Chicago
University Hospital
Lincoln St
Illinois
Polled Hereford Bulls and Miss Delta Land Sale Ads
Polled Hereford bulls grandsons of Bullion 4 priced 90 to 150 dollars. Clarence M Watts Ottawa Illinois contact. 35 720 acres Mississippi delta land near Little Rock Arkansas to sell or trade. P J Thibodeaux Realtor Chicago Illinois. 35 Agents need no license claims protection program. One dollar postpaid Money Making Secrets Business Opportunities free from W Schule Co New York City. 85 LAT)
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence M. Watts
Ottawa
Ill
Mississippi
Delta
Little Rock
Ark
P. J. Thibodeaux
Washington
Chicago
W. Schule( CO
East 12
New York City
Radio and magic novelty ads with multiple outlets
Classified style notice listing long distance radios for sale at Oak Park and Newtonville addresses. Included is a magic goods supplier offering entertainers items, stage illusions, novelties, ventriloquist figures, and a catalog with Bargain Magic priced at 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Blvd
Oak Park
Illinois
Heaney Magic Co
Berlin
Wistf
Constipation Cured Without Medicine Ad
Unusual health ad promises cure for constipation without medicine, priced at 25 cents. Featuring Prof. L. C. Smith from Olympia Phant, Penna, with contact details and a date line 3 19. Also promotes Earlville Hatchery Illinois selling accredited pure bred chicks with postpaid delivery and Monday hatchings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. C. Smith
Olyphant
Penna
Illinois
International and
Illinois Chick Association
Earlville Hatchery
Earlville
German Police Pups for Sale in Cooperstown North Dakota
Advertises registered German police pups for sale in Cooperstown North Dakota. Includes selling point that pups are registered and casually references price or terms with terse wording. No clear author or date provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irdens
Cooperstown
N. Dak
Gall and liver trouble ad prompts free help offer
The fragment promotes a free cure claim from Madeline Unger at 22 Quincy Street Chicago with contact for a mailing address. It mentions rubber stamps and a mail box offer and cites a Pomona California box and Paragon foundries Oregon with dates 3-12 and 3-5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madeline Unger
Dept
Quincy Street
Chicago
Illinois
Canary Digest Bird Food Promises Healthier Plumage
New scientific bird food that restores song and brightens plumage. Sold at 35c per box or 3 boxes for 1.00. Available from J. G. Keefe at 649 E. 47th St., Chicago, Illinois. Dated 3-19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. G. Keefe
E. 47Th St
Chicago
Ill
Classified Ads From Page Include House Rent and Exchange
A short classified item lists a $5 a day home writing request with stamp to L Marlay in La Porte Indiana. It also notes an apartment sale or exchange offer for a Southern farm and invites responses to P O Box 375 Alex Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Marlay
la Porte
Ind
Southern Farm
P. O
Alex, Va
Also Mentioned on This Page
Edna
Ferber
Clark Agnew
Doubleday, Page & Co
WNU
DeRoo
Barend DeRoo
Rockford Real Estate
Gale
Rockford
Carl O. Johnson & Co., Inc
East State Street
Home Industries Co
Blooomfield, N. J
Blum & Doner
Reade St
C. W. Keach
N. Dearborn St
Fugitt Co
Southport Ave
Everly Hoover
Culver
Albert Hunt
Hallock
Minnesota
Henry Turck
Seymour, Ind
W. H. Geiger Hatchery
Chatfield
Multitone CO
W. 38Th
New York
Midwest
Leo Sniff
Speer
Reid
Griffith
W. G. Griffith
McNabb, Illinois
E. Swasey & CO
Portland
Maine
Cleveland
Ace Motorcycles
American Motorcycle Co
Chicago Ave
Murphy-Ward Dairy Company
Calumet Ave
Chas. W. Norris
Monticello
A. B. Hugo Co
Enid, Oklahoma
Raymond J. Rood
Waupun
Wis
Guernsey
Edgewood Farms
Whitewater
Iola
Kans
Write Modern Machine & Pattern Co
Terre Haute
C. S. Brannin
Quemade
N. M
HI Quality Hatching CO
Kirksville, Mo
Eastern Label Co
Clintonville
Conn
Murdock
Minn
Northern Illinois
Round Lake
American Training School
N. la Salle Street
Jersey
Winsor
Morris, Ill
Burbank
J. H. Movius
Lidgerwood
N. D
Sauk County
Central Agency
E. 71St
Nixon Tag Co
Wisconsin Rapids
Joseph O’brien
Nevada St
Newtonville, Miss
Professional Directory
C. D. Grassel
Optometrist
First Street
la Salle
Shirley Shop
Florence
A LA Carte
Lil’s* Eat Shop
Edward Peters
Bell
Peru, Illinois
P. B. Giachetto
U. S
Peoria St
Peru
C. A. Jensen
LA Salle Theatre
la Salle, Ili
Pomona Calif
Paragon Foundries Co
Oregon
Til
Cassiday Bros
Spring Valley
J. A. Shere
Woolworth
H. W. Toranson
Over Spring Valley Drug Store
Spring Valley, Illinois
Chinks Place
Dakota Street
Hicks Park
J. E. Carlson
la Salle National Bank
DR. Olmsted
Bertrand
East St. Paul St
R. K. McColl & Son
Princeton, Illinois
Sally
Spuds
John Packup
E. Erie St
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