A Farm Wife Heads to Chicago Haymarket With Son
Selina Peake drives a wagon into Chicago's Haymarket seeking work to feed her child Dirk. She overcomes hostile comments from a farmer and asserts her right to sell vegetables, choosing a rough night in a wagon beside her sleeping son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ooms
Jakob Boomsma
Mis’ DeJong
Boomsma
Selina
Chicago
Sobig
Velvet
Dirk
Thirty-fifth Street
Haymarket
Dirk DeJong
Twenty-second Street
Klaas Pool
Randolph Street
Mother
Selina DeJong Drives Toward City in a Wagon Load
Selina DeJong leads a shabby wagon toward the city with a nine year old Dirk and a dog named Pom. The scene recalls a youthful trip with Klaas Pool as Selina faces debts from her father’s death and repairs a worn farm with bold adventure in her heart.
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Selina
Jan
Selina DeJong
Dirk
Halsted
Pom
Pervus
Selina de- Jong
High Prairie
Klaas Pool
Simeon Peake
Three A.M. Hurdles for Selina in a Desperate Morning
Selina DeJong awakes before dawn with a freight of worry and scant hope as she and a boy sleep in a wagon. She seeks coffee and food from Chris Spanknoebel, hoping to wash, warm up, and sell wares to fund a meager day while facing uncertainty about happier prospects after September and October.
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Selina
Halsted Street
High Prairie
Dirk
Pam
Chris Spanknoebel
Chris
Jan
Fortunes Hinted In Kitchen Talk From Ongoing Tale
Fragmentary dialogue notes a family mood with kitchen fortune telling and cooking, a possible omen about trouble with a dark woman, and a remark about hearing from the cook.
Ten foot boa replaces cat as hotel mouser
A ten foot boa constrictor in a Mexican hotel has taken the place of a house cat as the resident mouser and is regarded as more dangerous than two cats.
Spring fishing and shopping share same pleasures
A brief observation notes that men and women alike find gratification in leisure days, comparing spring fishing to spring shopping as parallel pleasures without asserting any difference in value.
Great Idea It is odd no one has ever thought to devise a lawn sprayer
The Detroit News notes an unusual concept proposing a lawn sprayer that embodies the principle of the grape fruit as an odd but inventive idea.
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Detroit News
Neighbor Discourse Prompts Mutual Agreement Dilemmas
Opinion notes that persuading a neighbor requires compromise on his ideas. It warns that straying onto a crooked path follows when one adopts a corkscrew direction, suggesting caution in conciliation and decision making.
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Old Colony National Bank
Plymouth
Mass
Vorted States Rubber Company
New York
America
O. O. McIntyre
Hearst
International Cosammopolitan
Bellans
Lexington
H.R. HI
Ilver Bt
J. Onville
Fla
Edna Ferber
Doubleday
Page & Wnn
Water Street
Missus
Selina Wim
Siley
Selina Peake
Louisa Alcott
Julie Hempel
August Hempel
Simeon
High Prairie School
Roelf
Klaas
Paarlenberg
Pervus DeJong
DeJong
Vermont
Maartje Pool
France
Chapter
Say
Bayer
Bridg
Atlanta, Ga
All Good Drug
W. F. Young, Inc
Lyman St
Springfield
Mase
Haarlem
Fe Um Pace Byewater
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