Norway News Briefs: Fire Destroys Vivestad Church
Norway reports the Vivestad church annex burned after a barn fire at Gaasland the precentor. The four hundred year old wooden church lost altar pulpit and font. organ saved. Also notes Whisky War in Hammerfest with protests against liquor stores and a police confrontation. Amundsen's polar progress cited with Fram reaching Buenos Aires. Swedish king visit to Berlin provokes Norwegian protest over German exhibit.
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Vivestad
Ramnes
Retal
Po Uce
Lquor
Bergen
Europe
Kristiania Verdens Gang
Kristiania
Norway
Mahon
Germany
London
Roald Amundsen
Scott
South Pole
Fram
Amundsen
Buenos Ayres
South America
Antartic
London Daily Mail
Danish Prince Valdemar named vice admiral in navy
A Danish news brief notes Prince Valdemar, youngest son of King Christian IX, appointed vice admiral. The report also mentions Copenhagen spiritists in gloom, a fraudulent seance exposed by Lyngs the Truthseeker editor, a haunting photograph of a levitating table, and mixed notes on labor funds, tuberculin tests for animals, and a park fire blamed on boy scouts.
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Valdemar
Christian IX
Copenhagen
Lyngs
the Truthseeker
Kedak
Thomas
Finnish senate facing duty on foreign flour import
Finnish mills push for a tariff on foreign flour with formal Senate requests and a St. Petersburg exporters' resolution backing the move. Current Russia Finland trade allows free flow of flour, risking a protected Finnish market for Russian millers if approved.
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Finland
Senate
Viborg
Russian Chamber of Exporters
St. Petersburg
Russia
Sweden News Highlights From Malmo To Stockholm In Brief
Swedish items report Malmo city council renaming a Sofielund street to Sabovagen amid local protests. A big train collision near Fagerlid station damaged cars and injured passengers. A funeral and a later burial followed for two victims. A stray tale notes servant girls in Stockholm receiving many offers and favorable terms. Strindberg comments on a national subscription for his benefit. The Hola high school debate prompts clipping and a long string of press cuttings. An engineer is tasked with evaluating electric power transmission feasibility from Talihatian waters to Conanhagen.
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Stockholm
Malmo
Sofielund
Sabovagen
Fagerlidh Station
Gothenburg and
Vastergotland
Sweden
August Strindberg
Strindberg
Hola
Talihatian
Conanhagen
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Scandinavia
Guntaf
Berlin
Aftenposten
England
France
J.C. Newell
Electric Shop
Stenehjem & Husebye Hardware Store
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Williston Mill CO
Williston, N. D
Winaston State Bank
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