Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1913-01-02


where government lands could be had
for the asking They were farmers,
or peasants, In the mother country
and they had no taste for city life.
AS a farmer needs wife and chill.
dren to be happy, he brought with
him his family. Most OF the immi.
! grants from Scandinavia during the
! past two decades have been men of a
| different type. They have come for
| the most part from the cities Of Nor
| way, have been single men, and have
settled down in the big American
cities to engage in industrial work.
| Hence IL is that In the city of New
York there are now thousands upon
| thousands of Scandinayians, while
| prior to 1890 there were comparative
ly few. Likewise in Chicago the num-
Der of Scandinavians employed in the
shops and factories is vastly greater
than II was twenty-five years ago.
there are fewer Scandinavian new
corners.
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While agitation has been going on
recently anent the INSCRIPTIONS
monopoliZation of the oil business in
Norway by the Standard Oil company
there was a humble workingman the
other day who discovered petroleum
on a little plot OF land that he owns.
AS long as thirty years ago this same
laboring man thought that the ground
about him emitted a peculiar odor
but ii was not until the other day
that he commenced to make investiga-
tons and then he found after diligent
digging how real oil gushed out of
the ground. Experts have examined
the product and have issued an Off.
cial statement to the effect that there
are unlimited Gil fields in the vicn-
ity Of Haugesund. No sooner had the
discovery been made before volunteer
spectators made their appearance
and every one who owns a plot of
ground in that vicinity will be certain
to charge pretty stiff price before
they will consent to sell anything.
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There Is no little trouble anent the
language question in Norway. The
four pathological members of the uni
versity commission, consisting of
Professors Roede, Brekke, Ostby and
Hoegstad, have suggested to the eccle-
siastical department that it appoint
committee, whose work II shall be to
perfect plans for uniform spelling,
or, In other words, that words" which
have actually the same meaning, al
though different in pronunciation,
may be spelled alike. The committee,
1t is suggested. should also have the
right to modify and simplify the
language, where 1t Is regarded neces-
sary.
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The rather startling announcement
comes from Stavanger-famous and
historic Stavanger-that the young
high school girls OF that peaceful and
historic burg are addicted to cigarette
smoking. But according to very reli.
able newspaper reports this Is really
so. Co-eds Of the Langfelt Business
College have actually been seen with
their escorts lighting cigarettes in
public. The habit fiourished far more
some years ago, however, than 1t
does now, SO that the sensation-if
indeed 1t can be regarded as such
comes rather late.
A London dispatch says: King
Haakon Of Norway is becoming un.
popular with his subjects and the be.
lief seems to be growing that he soon
will be discouraged by the storthing
into giving up his throne. Just after
Haakon left Christiania early this
month, with Queen Maud and Prince
Olaf. for London. to do their Christ.
mas shopping. the Republican party |
introduced bill into the storthing
abolishing all decorations-about the
only privilege enjoyed by the king"
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An exchange informs us that the
receptions given Captain ROAD
Amundsen In England were very cor.
dial and the newspapers did not hesi- |
tate to place the finder Of the South |
pole among the very greatest prod |
ucts of modern civilization.
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The committee having charge OF
the Carnegie hero fund for Norway
will soon be ready to award prizes.
The committee Ii In possession of |
the names Of several persons who |
think they are entitled to awards for |
saving human lives.
About 10000 persons are dissenters
IN the eyes of the law. because they
are not connected with the state
church of Norway.
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+ DENMARK. +
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The Icelandic member Of the alsting
and former premier OF Iceland. Editor
Bjorn Bjornson. died at his home in
after a long illness, aged
sixty-five years. He was q very prom
inent and useful man among his peo-
pie and headed great many reforms
for the betterment of the island popu-
lation.