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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1925
Page
6
The excerpt depicts Paula Storm and her circle staging lavish charity events with costly costumes and large social aims, while Dirk DeJong remains coolly detached. Young women in Paula’s orbit vie for attention, copying fashion and office routines as Dirk navigates flirtations and mysterious appeal.
Selina DeJong, now famed for her asparagus and farm triumphs, roams Chicago’s diverse streets from Michigan Boulevard to the Black Belt. Dirk DeJong, rising in finance, moves among North Side social circles while Selina probes immigrant quarters and the river of working life, bridging two worlds with quiet influence.
Selina owned a bustling city presence as a member of the Bigh Prairie school board. She served on the Good Roads committee and the Truck Farmers association, with a life described as full and prolific as she collected odd corners for her ventures and fed abundant vegetables and tender chickens to eager crowds.
Chapter XIV describes Paula's plan to lure women into bond buying at the Great Lakes Trust Company. Dirk DeJong, head of bonds, uses a luxurious private office and tailored ads to attract female clients. The campaign expands from Chicago to Cleveland and New York, with educational promotions and refined pamphlets.
Pedagogues complain to Parliament about low earnings, noting that a plowman earned more. In 1802 the Schoolmasters Act fixed income between 300 and 400 merks and required heritors to provide housing with limited rooms. They resisted lavish domines houses, but law enforced better conditions, preventing mass resignations to become beadles.
A 9 pound pumpkin grown in a California field was turned into pies yielding 125 dainties. The feat showcases local farming and culinary use of an unusually large squash.
Dickson guides Uncle Jim in a Mississippi journey to a Ringling Brothers circus in Vicksburg. The old bearhunter, though silent, is most moved by the camel because of its noble scent, a detail that lingers as the defining impression of the day.
Mrs Pat Campbell listens as a London playwright reads his long new play and the pair share a caustic exchange about the length of the script in their interview. The playwright, a self taught Cockney, hopes she will star in his work. The telltale line ends with a sharp quip on reading time.
Several hundred Indians including women and children assembled at Fisher Bay near the Naas river mouth in early spring awaiting politicians. The annual run lasts about a month and yields collchan grease used as butter. Previous years drew up to 1,000. this year not more than 300 attended.
A Chinese correspondent reports three white rainbows observed in Taiyuanfu, Shansi province, cited with Wu dynasty precedents to suggest looming internecine and external troubles for China in the near future.
A science service note says airplanes catching boats at Victoria, B C enable quicker travel to the Orient, saving one to three weeks of wait for the next sailing from Seattle. Also promotes Roman Eye Balsam for sore eyes at 26 cents.
In a brief barber shop exchange a customer asks what to put on his head and replies simply with his hat. The lighthearted moment captures everyday humor in a city street scene.
A new small aircraft is built entirely from aluminum in Germany while another model features a nickel steel fuselage with aluminum wings. The designs underscore advances in durable light planes and material use for aviation.
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