Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-10-08
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
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ing in the United States. Until few
months ago Mrs. Andersen was sur
prisingly hale and hearty, her health
being excellent and her interest in
the events of the world undiminished
She came to Council Bluffs from AL
borg, Denmark, i'm 1866 years ago;
she was then So years old.
New Biographical Work.
John A. Hofstead, Brooklyn. N. Y,
last week published volume. Amer
lean Educators of Norwegian Origin;
Biographical Dictionary" which con-
tafns biographical sketches of $50
men and women of Norwegian birth
or ancestry who have served as men,
bers of the faculties of more than 400
American universities, colleges or
other degree-conferring institutions.
Within it's special field this work is
said to be unique contribution to
American biographical history.
Wants New Loan.
According to late advices from
Stockholm, the Swedish government
is contemplating obtaining loan of
$50,OOO,OO0 in the United States in
| order to protect its gold reserves.
This information was issued prior to
the decision that Sweden-like Eng
land, Denmark and Norway, abandon
her gold standard, but it is thought
that the change of the money standard
will not handicap the loan negotia-
tions since Swedish credit is rated
high in America.
Fraud Orders.
During the last few days the United
States postal department has con-
fiscated large number of foreign
lottery tickets and issued fraud orders
against the senders. Among the
tickets were several thousand issued
by the Danish Colonial Lottery-an
institution subsidized by the govern
ment of Denmark. Private dealers in
| these lottery tickets have during the
last few years done much business in
the United States but every time the
postal detectives have discovered
| such mail, it has been confiscated.
The Danish government has repeated
ly declared that it cannot be held re-
| sponsible for the foreign circulation
| of the tickets, and next year will
i cancel its franchise to the Colonial
Lottery.
Per BOlStad Dead.
Per Bolstad, Norwegian violinist par
| excellence who toured the United
States six years ago and everywhere
| was received with the greatest en-
| thusiasm, died suddenly in Oslo a
few days ago, according to a cable
gram. He was 80 years old and at
the time of his death considered one
| of the most prominent musicians of
| his country. While in the United
States Mr.. Bolstad appeared in large
| number of cities from the Atlantic to
| the Pacific coasts.
Words and Passengers.
A general table of Swedish statistics
shows that in 1921 cablegrams ex-
changed between the United States
| and Sweden-both ways-contained a
total of 1,945,367 words; in 1880 the
cablegrams contained 4,592,192 words.
l-Eastbound passengers aboard the
boats of the Swedish-American line
numbered 6,65S in 1922; in 1880 the
number had increased to 1888, and
the largest percentage of the increase
was found in the lists of first-class
passengers.
Commander of DannebrOg.
Halvor Jacobsen, formerly manager
of the Scandinavian-Americ Line
agencies in the United States and
Canada, has been awarded the dis
tinction of Commander of the Order
of Dannebrog by the king of Denmark,
in recognition of his exceptional serv-
ices as a promoter of cultural ex-
change between Denmark and the
United States. Mr.. Jacobsen was born
in Copenhagen, grew up in New Zea-
land, came to San Francisco during
his boyhood years, affiliated himself
with the insurance business, and 10
years ago entered the steamship bust
ness. He has been very active in all
kinds of Danish-American organiza-
tons and is often referred to as
Americas intellectual ambassador"
when he makes one of his numerous
visits to his native land-and in this
country frequently is spoken of as
"Denmark's unofficial ambassador to
the United States"
Tour Postponed.
The American 1892 tour of the
Bergen, Norway, associated singers
has been postponed a year, according
to cablegram received by American
sponsors of the tour. No reason is
given in the message, but it is thought
possible that the general economic de-
pression-in Norway felt quite par
ticularly because of protracted labor
conflict-may have lot to do with
the decision.