Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-04-02
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
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visit few days ago. Mr.. Nielsen is
no stranger here, for, following jour
nalistic adventures in the Argentine
republic, he was for several years a
member of the editorial staff of a
Danish paper in Omaha, Nebr., then
for some years an official press at
tache connected with the Danish lega-
ton in Washington; when the Danish
parliament abolished the position of
press attache in the United States and
a few other countries, Mr.. Nielsen re-
turned to Copenhagen where he now
edits his widely circulated family
periodical.
X. A. LmdstrOem Dead.
K. A. LundstrOem, owner of the
largest chain of hat stores ON the
Pacific coast, died last week at his
home in San Francisco. He was born
in Stockholm in 1861 as the son of
a hat manufacturer, and after having
learned his fathers trade in Sweden,
and for six years in England, he came
to America early in the eighties,
settling in San Francisco where he
soon founded a business of his own.
Mr.. Lundstroem took a very active
part in the social life of his compa-
triots, and was active in their num-
erous stage activities.
Good and Bad.
Thomas Petersen, Norweg fan
civil engineer of Chicago, who year
ago went to Russia at the invitation
of the Soviet government, has re-
turned; in interviews he said that
there is every prospect of Russia car
rying out its five-year industrial plan,
and that it would be erroneous on
the part of Americans to believe that
the Russian government is approach
ing collapse. On the other hand, he
said, deplorable conditions exist to
an amazing extent.
May Increase Trade.
In Danish export circles the view
has been publicly advanced that trade
between the United States and Dem
mark is likely to increase consider
ably in case the latter country de-
cides to take part in the Chicago
Worlds Fair. 1t is pointed out that
most of the articles which Denmark
offers for the American market are
not in competition with American pro-
ducts, and that even though American
tariff rates at the present time are
considered almost prohibitive, it is
probable that revision will take
place. If that happens, American i'm
porters will have gained extensive
knowledge of Danish products through
the worlds Fair, it is said, and thus
be prepared all the better to pur-
chase such products when tariff rates
will permit.
HOlmgren Dead.
John P. Holmgren, for Is years
chief of the advertising section of
the Swedish weekly, "Svea," Wor-
cester, Mass, died suddenly last week,
81 years old. He was born in Sweden,
studied engineering in that country
and was for many years with the
American Steel & Wire Co. in Wor-
cester as we'll as at the firms Wauke-
gan, Ill, plant. In 1906 he became
advertising manager of the "Svea."
Discussing BjOernSOn.
Norwegian organizations throughout
the United States are considering
plans for the celebration of the one
hundreth anniversary of the birth Of
Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson, the greatest
national poet of Norway in recent
times. He was born on December g.,
1892, and died in Paris in 1910. About
SO years ago Bjoernson made a lee
ture tour through the United States
and, because of his Independent and
original views, provoked an interest
ing discussion in the public prints;
the echoes of that controversy are still
occasionally heard here.