Widow Selina DeJong Drives to Market Like a Man
Selina DeJong, a widow, drives a wagon loaded with late crop toward Chicago to sell at market. She leads her farm, tends the garden, and plans to support her son Dirk and the worn property after her husband’s death, challenging local expectations.
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Dirk
Selina
DeJong
Jan Steen
Chicago
Selima
Jun
Jan
High Prairie
Halsted Road
Chicico Selina
Tess
Selina DeJong
Halsted
Eight Years of Perfect Attendance for Dolly Williams
Dolly Williams of Princeton Illinois has no absences or tardies in eight years at Goss School District 113. She earned her eighth grade diploma at the April 29 closing exercises, a day that also marked her thirteenth birthday. Her sisters Hattie and Ruth posted the same attendance record, and mother Martha Williams is praised for instilling such habits.
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Dolly Williams
Martha Williams
Princeton
Illinois
Goss
Dolly
Hattie
Ruth
Hall Township Hall Township pauper medical bids sought
The pauper claims committee No 1 of Bureau County Illinois will accept sealed bids by May 26 1925 at the County Clerk office Princeton for physicians to furnish all medical surgical aid to paupers indigents and hospital patients in Hall Township. Bids must cover per capita cost not to exceed 10 cents annually and include drugs vaccines post mortem care and confinement services with right to reject any bid. Signed May 7 1925 Spring Valley Illinois. John Gingrich Cop Kitterman Thos Callinan.
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Board of Supervisors
County of Bureau
State of
Ilinois
Princeton
Illinois
Hall Township
Hall
Bureau County
St. Margaret’s Hospital
Spring Valley
Wood in Our Games and Outdoors Sparks Health and Fun
Nature Magazine notes that about 25,000,000 feet of wood annually supply skis billiard cues snowshoes tennis rackets candle pins bows and arrows and many other items. Wood helps keep us healthy amused and fond of sport and the outdoors.
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Nature Magazine
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Edna
L Ferber
Gian Steen
Caracco
Pervus
Selina de Jong
Klaas Pool
Simeon Peake
Ittie Farm
Clark Agnew
John Gingrich
Cop
Kitterman
Thos. Callinan
Legion
America
John Clover Monsma
William Jennings Bryan
U. S
Horace M. Dubose
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Leander
Cavalry Baptist Church
New York
George Wheaton Taft
Northern Baptist Seminary
Martin Luther Thomas
First Presbyterian Church
San Pedro
Cal
Monsma
North LaSalle St
Chicago, Ill
Rand
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