sexta-feira, 28 de fevereiro de 2014

Stories of Paraná - The foundation of Londrina

Stories of Paraná - The foundation of Londrina

The foundation of Londrina
Olympio Luiz Westphalen

The Company Lands North of Paraná, a subsidiary of 'Tarana Plantations ", London, after the State Government to acquire approximately 515,000 acres of land in the northern region of the state and have found the great fertility of land called purple, decided to start a colonization process, with a plan to sell small batches rural, urban centers with support, implementing a system that would become the most successful land reform ever made in Brazil.
After a first visit to the region, the directors of Company, Arthur Thomas and William Reid, was organized in Ourimbah an expedition that aimed to begin the process of settlement, under leadership of the young (20 years old) official George Craig Smith.

quinta-feira, 27 de fevereiro de 2014

Stories of Paraná - The Congress centenary

Stories of Paraná - The Congress centenary

The centenary congress
Tito Moreira Salles

Landed in Curitiba, on January 2, 1953. New Year's Eve parties prevented me from inaugurate it on the first day of the year.
This city was in full euphoria of the celebrations of the first centenary of the emancipation policy.
The government sent emit a kind of seal, with motifs depicting and portraying a cliché local buildings and landscapes.
Today, such a sheet is rarity.
Remem-ber me that one of them bore the Hospital São Lucas. The sender of any letter of these stamps pasted on the back of the envelope and was, thus, an effective advertisement and informative.
There were also conferences.
Congresses of all, journalists, pharmacists, folklore, psychology, veterinary, etc..
It even seemed that the organizers of all the congresses held in Brazil that year, Curitiba had chosen as host.
Now the estudantada soon realized that all Congress

quarta-feira, 26 de fevereiro de 2014

Stories of Paraná - Wedding Cake

Stories of Paraná - Wedding Cake

Wedding cake
Francisco Brito Lacerda

Diva had reached telling new boyfriend, a teacher.
- He is legally separated or divorced, I'm not sure.
This is annoying.
People love fabrications.
Can spread that I took the woman teacher.
- The separation of them was now in these days?
- It's been over year.
Fight old.
Started on their wedding day.
Even slept in the same bed. In the afternoon, he went to get a wedding cake bakery.
Take long.

terça-feira, 25 de fevereiro de 2014

Stories of Paraná - Cascatinha

Stories of Paraná - Cascatinha

Cascatinha
Nilson Monteiro

The Italian soul spoke louder when brothers Peter and Ogênio Trevisan had to decide between buying a business
transport with six buses, or a sliver of land, with 48 thousand square meters, covered by bush, on the banks
Heartwood Road.
They had just returned, in 1946, World War II, whose challenges have lived in Italy for a year and a half,
as crusaders. The like to step on the floor, I felt it between his fingers, tearing it up with ease and tenderness, to plant,
as taught grandfather Felix, the Veneto, made them spend their 90 contos in buying a family site Manosso.
Moved there, the river Ivo, a vein of Barigüi that there had (has) a waterfall that drew so much attention
as the forest, small animals, the smell of the earth, the life of that piece of Italian world jammed bars of Curitiba.

segunda-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2014

Stories of Paraná - Two stories chain

Stories of Paraná - Two stories chain

Two stories chain
Christopher Cavalcante

1950. Emerged the "Stockholders Kaloré", municipality of Apucarana.
There were hundreds of rural workers to cutting down weeds and training of the coffee plantations.
These men were marshaled by leaders known as "cats." Of all, one stood out for its seriousness in performing the services, the ability to coalesce and the discipline imposed on his men.
Skin color was known as "Black Cat" and so presented itself.
Was the most popular figure in the village spring.
Entrepreneur, then set up a "sale" to provide liquor, tobacco and food for the workers.
To prevent "leakage" of currencies, amounted to "Boite Black Cat" which, in practice, received plenty of back wages goers.
It was not enough that the location had not a chain, which should be collected drunks and troublemakers who tumultuavam the nights the boite.

terça-feira, 18 de fevereiro de 2014

Stories of Paraná - Judge Grammarian

Stories of Paraná - Judge Grammarian

Judge Grammarian
Oney Barbosa Borba

The bachelor Bahia José Nunes de Sá was, for some time, law judge of the District of Castro.
Its judiciary possessed special feature.
In the orders and jutted his concern grammatical sentences.
In his time as a judge was not used machine.
The processes were written manually. The handwriting of the judge was Graúda, easy to read.
He wrote rounding commas, distinguishing with proper slope accent and even making whim that ripple useful.
Sa Nunes broke early career in the judiciary. Not fit for the office.
Their sentences were meaningless, mechanical, lifeless.

segunda-feira, 17 de fevereiro de 2014

Stories of Paraná - A certain Mr. Figueiredo

Stories of Paraná - A certain Mr. Figueiredo

A certain Mr. Figueiredo
Tulio Vargas

Historian Vincent Nascimento Júnior, author of the phrase "Paranista" (not Romário Martins, as is proclaimed) used to tell his contemporaries unusual episode in Paranaguá, in 1860, to prove that the world is the clever.
Down there, as Inspector of Customs, a gentleman Figueiredo, bratty and madman, assuming that stepping conquered land, first began mistreating customs officers, their subordinates unfairly.