Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-04-22
AsKov PINE COUNTY MINNESOTA THURSDAY APRIL 22 1926

~ "Nordmanden" (1887), and had
been especially active in Norwe-
gian singing societies throughout
the Red River valley; for two
terms he was national president
of the Scandinavian Singers As
ISOLATION of America. Four years
ago he received the knighthood
cross of the st. Olav order from
the king of Norway. Judge Has
sells funeral last Sunday was
the most largely attended that
has ever taken place in Grand
Forks, more than two thousand
people being present at the SER
vices.
Swedish Trade.
The Swedish Chamber of Com
merce of the United States re-
Gently held it's annual meeting
in New York, and on this occa-
sion announcement was made
that 1872 firms had obtained
membership in the organization
during the year; there are now
about 600 members. The cham
Der which actively promotes
trade between the United States
and Sweden. and vice versa, has
issued a bulletin in which it is
stated that the exports to Swe-
den from this country during
1925 amounted to $42,465,0OO,
and the imports from Sweden to
the United States aggregated
$4O,998,OOO.
Scandinavian Literature.
Miss Hanna Alstrup-Larsen, a
Observation-Disclosures author who
or number of years has edited
the Observation-Disclosures Re
view. is delivering series of
lectures on Scandinavian litera-
ture at the New York Public Ii
brary. Miss Larsen so far has
been lecturing upon the works
of Biornson, Ibsen, Lie, Kjelland,
Garborg, Wildenvey, Boyer, Ham
sun and other more recent Nor
wegian writer's, and is planning
to discuss also works written by
prominent Danish and Swedish
authors.
Died i'm Omaha. +
P. A. Edqujst, Swedish vice
consul in Omaha, Neb., died last
week after having been in fail
ing health for some time. He
was born at Link0ping, Sweden,
and came 20 years old to
Omaha in 1889. Mr.. Edquist was
civil engineer and at one time
assistant city engineer in Omaha.
In 1915 he was appointed Swe-
dish vice consul for the Nebraska
district. He enjoyed a wide popu-
larity among his compatriots as
we'll as among Americans gen.
orally.
Prefer Copenhagen.
Several large American indu-
strial and financial syndicates
have recently intimated that
they prefer to make the city of
Copenhagen, Denmark, their
northern European distribution
center instead of Stockholm and
Gothenburg, as had been report
ed. Some of the leading business
men of New York have within
the last few weeks visited the
Danish capital, and in interviews
with the press declared that
thew find the Danes are better
business organizers than gen
orally speaking-the Norwegians
and the Swedes.
Office Of Information.
A. Sundbye-Hansen. until re-
Gently in charge of the Norwe-
gian bureau of the Foreign Ian
guage Information Service, has
taken steps toward the opening
of a general Norwegian news
and information office in Chicago.
Tt is his plan to also open a New
York office, and later he intends
to include Danish, Swedish and
Icelandic news service within
the scope of his activities. Mr..
Sundbye-Hansen hopes in this
way to be able to- establish an
active and valuable. point of con-
tact between the American daily
press and the standardization
population of the country.
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