Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-02-08
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The Norwegian government has ap-
proprlations amounting to 100000
crowns which will be utilized for the
further purchase OF water power Last
year the government pur1nIs 4 the
water power of the Tveite Fllr in
Bjoreid for 10000 crowns; the water
power on the Skjonheim estate in u
%lensvang for 5000 crowns and also the
water power of the Usteely and Bardu
rivers. In this way the government
is gradually buying up and Harvesting
the water powers of the country, thus
giving ample opportunity for inviting
manufacturing interests to locate in
Norway.
At the annual Holmenkollen event
this month there will also be a balloon
contest in which ~balloonists from
Sweden, Denmark and Germany will
participate. The meet has been much
advertised and several thousand per-
sons from all over the country are
expected to attend. The Holmenkol-
len event is an annual affair, which
includes contests in horse racing on
the ice, ski jumping, skating, etc.
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The London Times in a recent issue
contains a very interesting article en-
titled THE Home of the Ski" in which
the author gives an account in detail
regarding the progress of the ski sport
as it IS conducted in Norway at the
,ro-a,+ Ja,y " UNln nrTio11 4. rioh1yy
Illustrated and contains many points
of rare interest regarding this form of
winter sport in Norway.
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1t appears that the conditional open
ing of the pulpits of Norway to women
at this time was largely due to a re-
quest made last summer by Miss Anna
Shaw, an American lady, who toured
in the country last summer, giving lee
lures on women's progress in the suf-
frage movement.
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A promising young Norwegian sing
er, Miss Magnhild Rasmussen, recent
ly made her debut at the opera in
Mannheim, Germany, as "Senta" in
"The Flying Dutchman." Her success
was phenomenal, according to German
musical critics who see in her a com
ing opera star. of the first magnitude
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Jachim Hansen exported last year
more than one million crowns worth
of mackerel to New York. A paper
published in New York in the interest
Of the fishing industry, known as "The
Fishing Gazette" refers to Hansen as
Europe's "mackerel king"
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The storthing will in all likelihood
make an appropriation of at least
1000, 900 crowns for the so called
America Line, the establishment of
which has now come to be regarded
as a national undertaking so far as
Norway is concerned.
The Norwegian Teachers associa-
ton, a national organization, has now
more than LOO members. The asso-
citation will this year hold its annual
meeting in Christiania.
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A new professor of religion and on
other one as professor of the rigs
maal" is to be appointed at the Uni
versity of Christiania.
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The National theater has on its pro-
gram the vaudeville piece entitled
"Abekatten," one of Heiberg's latest
and most popular productions.
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The customs receipts for the year
of 1911 amounted to over $4,000 DOC
crowns.
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A daring Danish woman explorer,
Nine. Demant-Hatt, a graduate of Co
| penhagen university, has come back
from Lapland with a deep liking for
/ Lapps, the picturesque nomads Of
: Arctic Europe, who for thousands of
: years have retained their ancient Gus
toms, mode of life, dress and language.
They abstain from intermarriage with
outsiders and in their simple life keep
aloof from most of the influences of
: civilization. Though a of ex-
: tremely refined habits Nine. Demant-
HIATT has faced the Northern trials,
. living with the Lapps themselves for
!. various periods-one extending to ff-
teen Notwithstanding them on their
long wanderings, sharing their narrow
tents, drinking ten to twenty cups of