THE NORTHMAN
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estimated to aggregate 20,000. '
Boston, Mass., was third. In the free crowd
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skating contect it is reported Miss Admiral
.
Sheppard, commander of the
Weld was easily superior to all the allied
:
occupation forces, officially REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR
and was greeted with transferred
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the military authority to
The youngest government in the competitors
( continuous applause,
REPRESENTATIVE
but the judges ,
world is one that has just been set up considered that the Swedish women the Danish commander at Sonderburg. !
to the
by a colony of 25,000 Russian * were the best in the set figures, American relief workers evacuating ’
STATE
LEGISLATURE
refugees that follewed the army of which counted for 60 per cent, against Armenia in the face of spreading bol
Yudenitch into the borderlands of 40 for the free skating.
shevism, were detained at Erivan by
Esthonia. These people in small col
No. on Ballot 31.
A convention of historians of Nor the Armenians until they signed a
onies of several hundred each are
Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and guarantee that the stream of Ameri- ,
living on old Baltic estates in man- way,
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will be held in Christiania can supplies into Armenia would be-:
sions that formerly housed barons Finland,
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7 to 10, this year. The countries continued. After giving their pledges I REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR
whose titles date back many cen- July
.
named have been invited to send re as ransom'they were permitted to con-
NATIONAL CONVENTION
turies.
presentatives to the convention and tinue their journey to Batum.
[ Primary Election May 21. (Paid Adv)
A remarkable step has been taken much
intrest is manifested.
in Budapest by the government to im
prove the financial situation. Hunga The Norwegian Students’ Singing
rian crown note have been stamped Society, the oldest male chorus in
Norway, will celebrate its 75th an
VOTE FOR
“Worth only 50 percent.”
The result of this was that when, niversary in a glorious jubilee from
the banks reopened after being the 20th to the 25th of June, and
closed for ten days, the exchange Christiania, will become for the time
rate on London was 750, instead of a city of song.
Concerts and festivities will follow
950 (normally it is 24); on New York
190 instead of 290 (normally it is 5); one upon the other. Even in the sta
on Berlin 2930 instead of 430 (nor dium their beautiful songs will re
mally 1.20), and on Berne 33 instead sound. From Sweden and Denmark
similar choruses will come to take
of 46 (normally .95).
FOR
part in this great song festival. The
The riksdag of Sweden has decided students’ Singing Society has invited
by an overwhelming majority to as special, guests the student organi
emancipate Swedish women by pass zations of Copenhagen, Denmark, and
ing the new marriage law giving wo of Lund and Upsala, Sweden.
men equal rights with the men in the
home, in business and in every other The council of ambassadors at Paris
way. The new law removes the an has decided to give Turkey a month
cient right of Swedish • men to com to consider the peace treaty, which
plete mastery in the home and gives has been presented to the Turkish
Present County Commissioner
woman an opportunity of claiming plenipotentiary.
compensation for her work as house Both Germany’s domestic and her
wife or mother and absolute control foreign markets have come to a
of any dower or fortune she possessed standstill, says a dispatch from Ber
Always on the Job
before her marriage. Though this lin. The practice of raising prices has
Continued Good Service
law goes little further than similar continued steadily. They now are
laws in America it is revolutionary beyond the reach of German buyers.
for Sweden, where the status of At the same time, because of the im
married women has remained un provement in the rate of exchange of
Republican Primary, May 21
changed for a century. Besides con the mark, the buying power . of the
ferring upon women a new status it ■ dollar, pound, and franc have been
roots up ancient statutes and regu ■ dropping. As a result, the foreign
lations, either annulling them com ■ buyer goes away empty handed.
pletely or modifying them to con
(Paid Advertisement)
Danish troops on the 6th instant oc-
form to the new enactment. The ,
I
cupied
northern
Schleswig,
the
people
whole intention of the law is based
upon marriage as being a copartner of which on February 10, last, in a
ship in which each shares, equally the plebiscite, provided for in the peace
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profit and loss resulting from their treaty, voted by a large majority for
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a return of this part of the territory
combined efforts.
to Danish nationality. The Germans
Miss Toulin and Miss Norrin, both had been in control there since 1866.
of Sweden, were awarded first and Enthusiastic scenes accompanied the
second place, respectively, in the arrival of the Danes at Sonderburg. I
Olympic figure skating event at A force of Danes also arrived in Had-
Antwerp. Miss Therese Weld of ersleven and were welcomed by a
J. D. LEE
Overseas
MRS. FRANK 0. NORTHRUP
A. A, MUCK
County
Commisioner
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