Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-11-21
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place, will be made for the purpose
of cementing commercial relations be-
tween Norway and overseas ports.
The first port to be reached will be
New York, where no Norwegian naval
vessel has been seen since the Harald
Haarfager was there % years ago.
Made Chief Engineer.
Fredrik w. Iggberg has been ap-
pointed chief engineer of the new
Fort Wayne. Ind, plant of the Steinite
Radio Co. He has recently been the
manager of one of the experiment sta
tions of the Western Electric Co., and is
widely known in American radio en-
gineering circles. Mr.. Iggberg is
native of Stockholm, Sweden, and re-
ceived his technical training at
schools in that city. For several years
he was one of the consulting engineers
of the American Telegraph & Tele
phone Co. He is one of the leading
members of the Swedish Engineers
Society of the United States.
Promoted.
Reimund Baumann, Danish consul
for the Chicago district, has been pro-
NOTED to consul general, the appoint
ment being a personal one. The Of
flee in Chicago will not for that rea-
son become consulate general but
will remain a consulate, there being
only one consulate general in Amer
lea, namely, that in New York. Mr..
Baumann has for several years been
in the consular services of his coun-
try, and in former years was a gov
eminent official in the then Danish
West Indies Oow the Virgin Islands,.
Pioneer Dead.
p. T. Peterson, SO, of Grafton, n. d.,
died last week after having been i'll
for the last two years. He was one
of the oldest and best known pioneers
in the northeastern part of North
Dakota. Mr.. Peterson was born in
Odalen. Norway, and had come to the
United States in 1877, settling near
Grafton few years later He owns
farms in that district as well as near
Park River.
Swedish American Books.
A. Grape. head librarian of the Uni
versity of Upsala libraries, Sweden,
has announced, through the Swedish
press in this country, that his institu
ton has reserved a large section of
shelves for Swedish-American literary
works, in both the Swedish and the
English languages. Mr.. Grape says
that the libraries already have con-
siderable collection of ''Svensk-Ameri-
cana" but that they desire to make
this section complete; they are, especi-
ally, anxious to secure books and pam
phlets of an earlier day dealing with
pioneer life in this country.
Buys Another Mansion.
Emil A. Hagstrom who about 30
Years ago came to America from Den
mark, and who recently sold his Cali
fornian chain dairy stores for six
million dollars, has purchased $780,
600 mansion at Piedmont, Cal. He
intends to make this place his home
during nine months of each year; the
remaining three months he will spend
at his castle, "Hovdinggaard," near
Nestved, Denmark, which he bought
last summer.
L. S. i'm the 'FOrties.
At the initiative of the Norwegian
American Historical society DR.. Gun
mar Malmin of Iowa City, Iowa, last
week published large volume con-
tanning translations of newsr aper let
ters written in Norwegian in 1S4S by
Judge JOhan Munich Rader, who was
sent to the United States by his gov
lean jury system. The articles give
very vivid and interesting picture of
social life and manners in America