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Stories of Paraná - Poles in northern Paraná

Stories of Paraná - Poles in northern Paraná

Poles in northern Paraná
Mariano Kawka

The responsible for the colonization of much of the land north of Paraná Land Company was the Northern Parana, the Brazilian subsidiary of Paraná Plantations Ltd., whose formation was due to the initiative of some farmers from São Paulo, knowledgeable fertility of red earth, and willing to take advantage it to the coffee culture, and managed to sensitize entrepreneurs Englishmen, in the person of Simon Joseph Fraser (Lord Lovat), in the region to apply the necessary capital for the colonization of these lands.
The Paraná Plantations Ltd. was established in London in 1925. Between that year and 1927, its subsidiary, the Company Lands Northern Parana (later Company Improvements North of the Paraná) acquired a total of 1,246,300 acres (12,463 km ^) of vacant land, located on the left bank of the river Paranapanema between rivers and Tibagy Ivaí by installing a high camp 22 kilometers from the river Tibagy, which arise after the city of Londrina.
The settlement was made by the system of small farms and at the time, there was an intense propaganda to attract settlers to the region of diverse nationalities.
An employee of the Company, the engineer Ignatius Szankowski, booked a fertile area, 15 kilometers from Londrina to be settled by Poles.
It was through one of these propaganda leaflets that in 1932, the Polish Cebulski Edward, surveyor and landowner in Santa Catarina, noted that "promised land" and decided to meet her.
Excited by what he saw and heard, Cebulski invited several heads of households Colony Polish Pines, in the highlands of Santa Catarina, to be acquainted with the new "Eldorado". New buyers were coming from various locations in Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, southern Paraná and São Paulo.
It was necessary to choose a name for the new colony.
A meeting was organized in the open, with residents sitting in an important peroba newly felled.
John Langowski, one present, suggested the name Warta, a river of Poland.
Your suggestion, applauded, was accepted immediately, and so was baptized the "equity" and future district.
Within this same colonization scheme was planned colony Gleba Orleans (which means "little eagle"), located 15 kilometers Arapongas.
Before the arrival of the first transport of Polish and Ukrainian settlers of Europe, we find there some pioneers Poles, who had come on their own.
It was some single guys, who generally worked in road construction.
They were the lords Golas, Macur, Olszewski and Pochwatka.
In 1937 several Polish and Ukrainian families from Europe settled in the colony.
Later Polish settlers came from southern Paraná and Santa Catarina. And to be noted that some aspects of the original plan of colonization could not be executed, through no fault of the Company's colonizing, but because the outbreak of the Second World War interrupted definitely the massive influx of migrants from Poland to Brazil.

Mariano Kawka, teacher


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.

Stories of Paraná - Killing in the backcountry

Stories of Paraná - Killing in the backcountry

Killing in the backcountry
Ivo Nalce

By the late '50s, and even a little more, the region Tibagy, Reserve, lived in fury bandit allies, or generated from politicians. Banditry raged promoted by the heads of politicking site.
Morning of Tuesday, January 6, 1930, Carlos Soebel opens the warehouse Orlando Soare See the back window broken into footprints of many people and about six contos in stolen goods.
Who was it who was not? The boy Gabriel unravels the mystery: was the band of his boss Gabriel Bueno da Cunha, called the "Lantern of our hinterland." To prove brought some stolen items and reports that the gang is hiding Paved, two leagues from the city.
The delegate Joaquim Carneiro will not, but sends the cable Angelo Fultert and the soldier José Santos (all reserve police force) in search of the bandits.
Will volunteer civilian Abilio Barbosa. The boy Gabriel is attached to show the hideout.
Knowing that the band is numerous, the lawyer Mario Santos will call for reinforcements to Ponta Grossa.
Time passes and nothing Hunters bandits return to the city, the night falls.
On the morning of Wednesday, the boy Gabriel returns and tells what happened: ^ When they arrived near the lair of the bandits, the cable Angelo sends the boy stay behind waiting for reinforcements.
After a while Gabriel hears the shooting, has over twenty shots.
Hiding in the bush where overnight, morning peeps and has five bodies stretched on the floor.
Reservation residents are horrified at the story of the boy.
Popular Paved and go to "Lantern" did not let anyone get close and warns that kills whoever comes.
Police reinforcements requests do not appear, police in Ponta Grossa wanted to pay three hundred thousand reis for the transportation of troops, five hundred drivers wanted to meddle in their trucks mud road only one day of heavy rain.
In Reserve, the pharmacist José Andrade, seeing that they could not rely on law enforcement, armed and meets some locals decide to attack the flock of Gabriel Bueno da Cunha.
Front will the pharmacist and two men with Winchesters, just behind comes ten men armed with handguns.
When you arrive at the barn where they were bandits, Gabriel Bueno da Cunha and three henchmen surrender without resistance.
They say that the head was another famous bandit of the region, Major Salvador.
Salvador is dead in bed yet as the 38 in hand, beside the woman Colac.
In the paddock in front of the barn, in the mud in the rain, the bodies of the cable Angelo and civil Abilio Barbosa. The body of the soldier José Barbosa is not found.
José Barbosa will appear later in the story who fled at the time of the shooting.
The reinforcements finally arrive Ponta Grossa, 15 soldiers.
The corpses are taken to reserve, tied on the backs of horses.
Performed the autopsy, it appears that the cable and civilian were killed with shots to the back.
Actually, what happened during the shooting? No one can explain.
An unsolved mystery of the many mysteries of a region of Paraná where banditry prevailed protected by politicking.

Ivo Nalce historian


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.

Stories of Paraná - homage Camera Leal

Stories of Paraná - homage Camera Leal

Homage Camera Leal
Rui Pinto

Luis Antonio Chamber Leal was the illustrious son of Sao Paulo.
Among other dotes was a journalist, poet, musician and speaker ample resources, but above all, was a lawyer for Nail paternal descent and fruitful devotion to Direct, producing extensive work that earned him national renown.
Natural Taubaté, in 1893, his father was appointed attorney in the Paraíba Valley, and his grandfather, along with the contributions made to the legal letters, was the first judge of Curitiba, police chief and even vice-president of the province.
Among the many works of chamber Leal, recall your Elementary Manual of Civil Law, the Comments to the Brazilian Penal Code, the Theory of the Shares and the Code of Civil and Commercial Procedure of the State of São Paulo, in addition to its Prescription and decay, which , in the words of Aguiar Dias, was in the specialty, the most important contribution of national doctrine, and other more.
For amaze to know that after so rich activity writer and jurist, suddenly even fifties, House Leal emerges in Apucarana in northern Paraná, come alone, by train, to accommodate a very modest pension in the village
Regina, behind the train station, where it will live and sleep in the common room with people of humble condition.
Was there, then, that surprised Elias Farah and took part in their banking lawyer while the lawyer settled as a teacher suplementarista local gym, to ensure you some immediate gain.
Regrettably, however, the House Leal was prematurely aged, ill and nearly blind.
Thereafter, when the news spread of her condition, hands also comparecidas but more influential, and brought him to Curitiba, in late 1953, named interim prosecutor, now available to the Attorney General's Office, where, it appears also gave some of her valuable contribution and lived the meager days of life left to him.
Sick, blind and oblivious, finally died in 1957 at 63 years of age.
It fell to Paraná, thus comforting the final days of the remarkable master São Paulo, although in modest circumstances promoter interim.
In any case, however, was a highly generous gesture of our state that, on the one hand, returned, indirectly, the important role that his grandfather had in the former province, and on the other, yielded a fair and necessary tribute to the eminent jurist São Paulo, so early still cruelly wounded by fate and that in October this year of 93 complete its birth centenary.

Rui Pinto, retired Ombudsman


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.

Stories of Paraná - those who have lost

Stories of Paraná - those who have lost

Those who have lost
Marcelo Oikawa

When pulled the ear of disaffection with a weight scale during that fight within his small store, Peter Venancio had no doubts.
Sold everything and left, did not appear anymore in Mouth Oz.
Do what.
That was how he came to Londrina, doing the accounts of dripping and bologna sandwiches that would sell.
Assembled the Bar Londrina and concluded it would get rich in ten years, getting in the way of the settlers who came up on Saturdays to shop in town.
Soon he saw a hot land like an ice cream parlor that was a necessity.
Within a month, his wife and daughter and daughter Jupira Elza, six, were waking up at dawn to beat the cream currant, lemon and toasted coconut.
It was there in the Bar Londrina, spending belly propped on the counter, he saw, year after year, old trucks go up the street in Vila Guarani Casone, laden with coffee, jarring the body.
At the time of the harvest was getting increasingly impatient, eyes shining, to start to find ten years was a long time in the land.
The old trucks loaded prospered their owners, which in turn delivers the coffee machines fell with brand new trucks purchased here close at Ford dealership.
The custom was to stop on your Bar The newest and happy owner of that wonderful green and black with the smell of fresh paint, paid a round of beer, rum, and ice cream sandwich.
To see both old truck loaded up coffee and so lucky to see descend back with new truck and pocketful, Peter sold the bar and bought a cup of coffee.
It took three years to form planting, counting each day with anxiety in the stomach, the day of his first season and his first truck.
It would be in 1953. But in the 53 Northern Paraná met his first black frost.
On the first morning of the event we had gone crazy.
People who walked in carpooling of new trucks, with the nose up, now crazed wandering through the streets, laughing and crying.
In the first week of the event, people who had killed himself.
Peter Venancio, pitted. Lost the plantation.
Deflated. Not killed.
Not mad. But became disillusioned.
I never told anyone what had happened inside.
Only thirty-five years later, sitting in the kitchen daughter Jacira one afternoon confessions, he admitted that he had frost burned their hopes.
He died five years later, at 92, selling sugar cane juice and tack, making the numbers game in the street Maranhão.
Like him, thousands have disappeared in the red dust of time.

Marcelo Oikawa, journalist


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.

Stories of Paraná - The hero and the villain

Stories of Paraná - The hero and the villain

The hero and the villain
Luiz Netto Romaguera

He was the president of the province who gave titles Brazilian citizen naturalization to immigrants who so wished. The French Jorge Leprevost, on January 18, 1879, sworn allegiance to the Constitution and the laws of Brazil, becoming a naturalized Brazilian. The oath was made in the presence of the President of Paraná, Dr. Rodrigo Otavio de Oliveira, being the act secretariat by Mr. Ernesto de Moura Brito.
Mr. Jorge Leprevost moved in Tijucas where, years later, when the Federalist Revolution, already commissioned Captain, find the entrenched powers that be defending the country so well known that you welcome.
He had, among many employees, one of his confidence: his godson named Tiburcio.
Days before the beginning of hostilities in January 1894, had news that one of their sales, just nearby, had been looted and Tiburcio was the spoiler. Can not believe it, for he had asked permission to meet ailing mother waited around to find himself.
When he arrived, he denied everything.
The witnesses denied and he was arrested.
Then he escaped and joined the Federalist troops, which was an informant.
Now Tijucas capitulada, enters the square with the pompous title of Major and shame his former patron. Not satisfied with the insults addressed to him, Leprevost part with his bat unleashing her powerful blow. Receives, in retaliation, shot in the chest, going straight to the hospital, managing to escape with his life.
A few days later, enter the door of the hospital to an unknown soldier, pointing his gun at the head of the captain, ended his life.
It was learned later that the principal outside Tiburcio that Doria covered up by Henry, brother of the governor of the Federalists, flees.
When caught by the Republicans, had horrible death.
Captain Leprevost swore and kept his allegiance to Brazil.
He died with honor.
A few days ago in a television miniseries, throughout Brazil met the story of the coming of some Italian anarchists, forming the famous Cologne Cecilia, there in Palmeira. What they do not know is how it ended.
Colombo Leoni, immigrant, wanting to harass the Brazilian government, which had brought him and received him with open arms, organized an Italian-Brazilian battalion, composed of anarchists.
Met, then the entire colony where men formed groups of robbers and bandits operating in the city of Palm and other neighboring colonies. The strength, all dilapidavam. The battalion became the vanguard of troops Aparicio Saraiva (Federalist).
With this attitude, Colombo Leoni done a great service to those communities, because when this battalion, fleeing to Rio Grande do Sul, fell into the hands of General Pinheiro Machado, this shattered the no escaping any man alive.
There was news that someone has returned to Cologne Cecilia that just disappeared.
Two men - Jorge Colombo Leoni-Leprevost and very different fates. The story took care to tell who was the hero and who the villain.

Romaguera Luiz Netto, a lawyer and member of the Association of Friends of the Public Archives of Paraná.


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.