Married Synopsis of a Chicago 1868 School Tale
In 1868 Chicago Selina DeJong, widow and mother, seeks work as a teacher at a High School on the city’s outskirts. She befriends Klaas Pool’s family and meets Pervus DeJong, a poor farmer, while a lunch basket auction reveals social tension. Selina finds kinship with Roelf, Klaas’s son, amid gossip about Paarenders and romantic interests.
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Selina DeJong
Simeon Peake
Youns W.hood
Chicago
Julie Hempel
August Hempel
Simeon
Selina
Klaas Pool
Roelf
Klaas
Pervus DeJong
Seling
DeJong
Selina Learns Grammar Amid Napoleonic References
A teacher guides a class through a sentence as Selina broods over a dangerous attraction to a powerful man. The scene alternates with a farm sale, a arithmetic challenge, and a cryptic prayer for restraint. The juxtaposition heightens tension between intellect and desire.
High Prairie Winter Also a Life’s Turning Point
Selina, newly married to Pervus DeJong, wrestles with desire fear and fate as she adjusts to farm life in High Prairie. The narrative traces her conflicted feelings about marriage and the brutal labor of tilling the land, plus the birth of Dirk on the fifteenth of March and the transforming bond with the farm.
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DeJong
Dirk DeJong
Dirk
Selina
Pervus
High Prairie
Pervus DeJong
Klaas
Roelf
Old Jakob
Mower Fees Spark Odd Barber Charges Rumor
Fragmentary notes describe a barber using a “mower” style tool on customers with whiskered faces. One line mentions Rogers charging extra fees for the mower usage, suggesting disputed charges at a shop.
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Rogers
Hooking On in Midair Above Scottfield Air Route
A Sperry messenger plane traveling 58 miles per hour above Scottfield Illinois connected a metal hook to the army dirigible TC13. The hook caught a trapeze swinging beneath the airship enabling the remarkable midair hooking maneuver.
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Scottfield
Illinois
Sperry
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Selina McBride
Bilucher
Wellington
Seribe
Edna Ferber
Deveremag
Maartie
Mrs. Pool
Mra
Pool
Maartje Pool
Maartje
Ekleas
Mrs
Pervus DE Jong
de Jong
Sélina
Perves DeJong Snutte
Father
Selina Peake
Gay
Debonair
Lina
Wrigley’s
Walt
Galluisia
Brandon
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