Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-10-15
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
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Americans have recently returned. in
tending to settle in the old home COM
munities because they cannot find en-
ployment in the United States. There
are at the present time about 10000
unemployed in Norway, and the au-
thorities are looking with some mis-
givings at the stream of returning
Observation-Disclosures who are likely
to increase the unemployment percen-
tage.
"PecheurS d'Islande."
The American Limited Editions club
has ordered 1900 copies of the French
author, Pierre Lofts famous work,
"Pecheurs d'Islande" ("Iceland Fish
ermen") printed, illustrated and pub
Hshed by house in Stockholm, Swe-
den. 1t will be an edition de luxe,
not for sale but for private distribu-
ton to members of the exclusive
American club whose officers came to
the conclusion that they could obtain
more satisfactory results by award
ing the printing contract to a Swed
ish firm than anywhere else.
Natives of Denmark.
In an analysis published by the
United States Census Bureau it is
shown that in 1890 there were in the
United States 179,400 persons born in
Denmark. This figure is slightly less
than those compiled during the 1920
enumeration when there were 18O,79S
persons of Danish birth in this coun-
try. During recent years the immi-
grafton from Denmark has reached
the lowest point ever registered since
the great trek in the seventies of the
last century began.
American HOnOrS.
Through the American legation in
Oslo the United States Geographical
to Major Gunnar Isaachsen and the
same society's Livingston medal to
Captain Riiser-Larsen in recognition
of meritorious work done by these
Norwegian explorers in the Arctic
and Antarctic regions.-On October 1,
the American Congressional medal
posthumously awarded to ROAD
Amundsen- who lost his life trying
to rescue members of the wrecked
Italia" expedition-was given to i'm
mediate relatives of the famous ex-
plorer at a memorial service in the
capital of Norway.
c. G. SundbOrg Dead.
Carl Gustaf Sundborg, for many
years manufacturer in Chicago, died
a short time ago in Eskilstuna, Swe-
den. He was born in Vestergoetland
80 years ago, came to the United
States about 1890 and remained in
Chicago for about twenty years; he
then returned to the land of his birth
where he owned a machine factory,
and spent his declining days in Eskil-
stuna.
Captain Gundel Dead.
Captain Valdemar Gundel, master
of the Danish liner, Norge" which
foundered on the Rockall reef near
the coast of Scotland in 1904, is dead
at his home on the island of Samsoe,
Denmark. The catastrophe which took
place in foggy weather on June %,
1904, caused the death of GAG persons;
as no criminal negligence on the part
of Captain Gundel could be shown, he
was not punished except by a decision
that he would never thereafter be
given ship. For many years the
captain, always haunted by the dread
full memories of the disaster, did office
work for the Scandinavian-Americ
line in Copenhagen. He was 50 at
the time of his death the other day.
Discover Dialects.
Professor Ernst w. Selmer and DR..
Dirk A. Seip who have come to the
United States for the purpose of find
ing and recording Morse local dialects,
now obsolete in Norway. report that so