So Big Chapter Premiers Selina DeJong’s Early Life
Synopsis of early chapters follows Selina DeJong daughter of Simeon Peake in a Chicago area 1888. She becomes a schoolteacher at High Prairie pool near Chicago and plans marriage to Pervus DeJong while Roelf Pool aids her. Tension grows as mutual affection develops and Selina battles feelings she cannot control.
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Dirk DeJong
Selina DeJong
Simeon Peake
Chicago
Julie Hempel
August Hempel
Simeon
Selina
High Prairie Pool
Klaas
Paarlenberg
Pervus DeJong
DeJong
Elina
Prvus DeJong
Lina
Roelf
Reid
Vermont
Julie
Kansas
Arnold
Maartje
Maurice
Low Prairie
Jakob
Mr. DeJong
Geertje
Jozina
McBride
Blucher
Waterloo
Wellington
Chapter VI They Were Married Following May
Selina faced a swift marriage two months after. She felt bewildered yet calm amid rebellions and content as the narrative unfolds.
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Selina
Lake Michigan Water Withdrawal Permitted With Conditions
The Chicago Sanitary District wins a permit to withdraw 8500 cubic feet per second from Lake Michigan through 1929, with a plan to reduce to 4164 cfs by 1935. The permit requires sewage treatment upgrades costing about 54.2 million dollars, bonding power, and metering of 90 percent of water service while funding future lake level projects and preventing river discharge during storms. The decision follows hearings over a Great Lakes level dispute. It can be reversed by the secretary of war or Congress.
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Weeks
Chicago Sanitary District
Lake Michigan
War Department
Illinois
Great Lakes
Putnam
United States
Chicago
Taylor
Army Engineers
Secretary of War
Congress
Peru Slayers Seek Release From Prison
Peru city council adopts a resolution opposing pardons for Sam Siracusa and Mike Spagnoala, life-term bandits in Joliet for the 1913 Black Hollow payroll murder of Ben Dierks and Elmer West near Peru. Dierks, a former Peru police chief, was slain, West died next day, as payroll guards were ambushed along Deer Park road.
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Sam Siracusa
Mike Spagnoala
Joliet
Ben Dierks
Elmer West
Peru
Black Hollow
Dierks
West
Illinois Minc Co
Illinois River
F. R. Richmond
Henry Oesterle
Zinc
Deer Park Road
Mendota Banker Dies by Own Action
Frank P. McKean, cashier of the First National Bank Mendota, shot himself in the family garage Monday morning. His act was attributed to long nervous illness and severe health worries, while bank officials reported accounts were found in order. His wife discovered the body around 7 30.
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Frank P. McKean
First National Bank
Mendota
O. K
Mr. McKean
Helen's Promise and the Episcopal Minister
The Boston Transcript recounts Helen and her sister seeking permission to hear an Episcopal preacher. Their father hesitates but Helen vows they will listen without believing a word he says.
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Helen
Boston Transcript
Night Coughing Stopped Quickly By Simple Treatment
Thousands troubled with nighttime coughing find relief with Dr King’s New Discovery for Coughs. A teaspoonful taken at night and held in the throat for 15 to 20 seconds before swallowing quiets irritation, loosens phlegm, and often ends coughing the first night. Suitable for children and adults. no harmful drugs.
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Clark Agnew
Doubleday, Page & Co
WNU
Johnson
McKean
Masonic Order
DODGE
Dodger
Ford Rdstr
Walter
West St. Paul Street
Zukowski
Spring Valley, Illinois
Donose Brothers
Eisele Motor CO
la Salle
Ilinois
D. B
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