Saved by a Friend from Ill Health in St Paul
Mrs Wilhelm y of Duke Street St Paul Minnesota credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her strength after overwork worry and fainting spells She was advised by a friend to take the remedy and reports weight gain and improved health after ten bottles She urges other women to try it
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St. Paul
Minnesota
Lydia E. Pinkham
Eve
Jame Wilhelmy
Duke Street
Salt History in Louisiana From 1791 to Avery Island Discovery
The article traces Louisiana salt origins with early crude refining from galt water springs in 1791 used by Indians long before Europeans. It notes 1812 improvement and 1862 rock salt discovery at Avery Island led by Confederate troops, 15 feet underground.
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Louisiana
United States
Galt
Avery Island
Artesian Well in Charleston Reaches 2050 Feet
The New York World reports Wondeg Well in Charleston South Carolina reaches two thousand fifty feet with water at eighty seven degrees Fahrenheit, indicating a hot artesian well of notable depth.
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Charleston
S. C
New York World
So Big
Selina DeJong, nineteen and nearly destitute, becomes a school teacher near Chicago in 1888. She forms a bond with Klaas Pool and his son Roelf, while rumors swirl about the Widow Paarlenberg. Selina marries Pervus DeJong, bears Dirk, and asum es life as a farmer's wife with hardship.
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Dirk DeJong
Selina DeJong
Simeon Peake
Chicago
Julie Hempel
August Hempel
Simeon
Selina
High Prairie School
Klaas Pool
Roelf
Klaas
Paarlenberg
Pervus DeJong
DeJong
Dirk
Selina Rus in Chicago Market Life and Plans
Selina travels with Pervus to the Haymarket in Chicago after their wedding. She envisions transforming their farm life with bold plans to paint the house and drain the clay soil using tile drains, while Pervus remains cautious and steady.
From Field Work to Endless Labor on a Prairie Farm
Selina and Pervus toil on a twenty five acre plot in High Prairie facing a boggy west sixteen. She learns soil, draining, and marketing while managing a frugal home, balancing love and hardship as Maartje Pool dies and Dirk grows. Selina’s dream of intensive farming struggles against poverty and isolation.
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Pervus
Selina
Paarlenberg
Lina
Chicago
High Prairie
Klaas Pool
Halsted
Maartje Pool
Roelf
DeJong
Dimity
House and Garden
Jan
Iowa
Mllinois
Kansas
Illinois
Maartje
Chance
Dirk
Will Selina Transform the Farm or Succumb to Environment
Selina faces a pivotal choice as she applies energy and ideas to farm life. The outcome hinges on how she adapts to environmental pressures and industry changes shaping her land and future.
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Selina
Firemen Roam Ruins After Blaze Prompting Mrs Dumpling
Mrs Dumpling questions why firemen, after controlling a blaze, reportedly play all night on the ruins. Her overworked half asks why they did not sleep like sensible folks, while she calls them frivolous.
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