Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-12-28
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Wireless telegraph stations have
been erected at Green Harbor. lingo
and Spitzbergen. The first wireless
telegram from these points came TO
Christiania from Spitzbergen station
recently and read as follows: The
connection Spitzbergenlngo was com
pleted at 1870 this morning (Nov. 23).
II promises to be a good connection
Experiments will be continued. The
line can be opened to the public at any
time. Propose Dec. 1. All hands are
we'll and il is splendid 10 stay here;
cold and dark, but coZy. All machines
and apparatus work satisfactorily. i
have the honor on account of the
crew TO congratulate you with the cuc-
cessful completion. Greetings Peter
SON The dispatch was addressed to
Thomas Heftye, general director OF
Norwegian t%elegraphs and telephones.
MI. Heftye, who is an aggressive man,
lieutenant colonel In the army and
twice minister of war, originated the
idea OF building a wireless station at
~Spitzbergen about a year ago, and his
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the storthing, which appropriated the
necessary funds for erecting stations
at Green Harbor, ~SpitZbergen and at
lingo, Norway, a small island north OF
Hammerfest. This telegraph line is
probably one of the first in the entire
world which has been erected without
any hope of direct profit, for the pop
ulation of S%pitzbergen will probably
never reach 500. Meanwhile the sta
ton will reach over a great part OF
the Arctic ocean. with a radius OF 1000
miles, and any Arctic expedition which
will be frozen In within this radius
will be able to get news from the out
side world IL they have a wireless az
paratus along. The radius OF action
takes in most OF the Siberian coast.
Franz Josef Land, Norway as far
south as Bergen, and Greenland over
to it's western boundary. For those
workmen and trappers who stay in
Spitzbergen, including the American
Coal company's hands at Green Har-
Dor, il will mean to be in steady M
with civilization and the sphere OF in
fuence of Norway will In this way be
extended to this group of valuable
islands, which up to the present time
have been no mans land.
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A leading Congregationalist has
} been travelling in Norway. He writes
In the Congregationalist about his o b
servations among this strong Luther
- ,n,Y1o He furha main raa-
: son, however, why a tourist should
J plan to be his own guide through Nor
way Is the people. No kinder, more
!, democratic, more considerable hosts
can be found in the world than the
Norwegians. II they are commercial
their commercialism is so qualified By
courtesy that its sting is lost. The
North European seems to be as con
( stitutionally honest as the South Eu
ropean is constitutionally dishonest.
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g Says Fru Ella Anker, the prominen
b woman's leader in Norway: I'm m!
country divorce is not looked upon al
a disgrace but rather as a relief from
an unfortunate state of affairs. It !:
q kept out of the courts as much as pos
sible, the machinery being largely II
e the hands of administrative officials
The proceedings are very simple ant
n extremely cheap. The cost varies II
n different cases, running from a little
less than 1925 to $25."
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1t is proposed to celebrate the eel
T. tennial of peace between Norway an
d Sweden in 1914. In the same year tn
centennial of peace between the Ems
n fish speaking nations OF the world wi
n be celebrated. When men speak {
TT peace propagandas they forget tina
IS there was such a thing as peace
lie before the present generation OF me
y was born.
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,e Rev. DR.. Lenker is publishing
re series of articles in a number OF Yves
~ ern papers on scandinavian Lal
ne guages in Our Country Schools" III
of idea is that when a provision is mad
for modern" languages none woul
be more practical or useful to II
I'd youth of the West and the Northwei
to than the various Scandinavian tongue
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