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Story of an Emigrant.
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Saturday afternoon to read it. I asked if it would not
be well for him to subscribe for it also; it might
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happen to contain useful information in the future,
and he could afford to pay for it. To this he answered:
’’No, I cannot do that, for I have not much time to read,
and if I want to read I have some back numbers of a church
paper, from Sweden, and should I want to read answers to
any questions I can borrow a copy of your paper from my
neighbor." So highly did this good and pious farmer, from
a financial point of view, appreciate information which had
saved him his home. In my opinion such people do not
deserve reproach, but sympathy on account of their gross
ignorance. It is also a fact, that, during all this time, the
income received from the paper did not cover its expenses, and
if it had not been for other resources the enterprise would
have failed even at the very climax of its popularity’.
After five years of untiring journalistic work I was only
too glad of an opportunity to sell the paper in the spring of
1881 to a publishing company, which soon moved the plant
to St. Paul. My former associates, Messrs. Lunnow and
Soderstrom, soon after commenced the publication of a new
Swedish weekly, called Svenska Folkets Tidning, which has
now a larger circulation than any other Swedish paper in
our state. Having sold my share in the Svenska Tribunal
in Chicago a few years before, and thus being no longer
connected with any newspapers, I found more time to devote to
my wheat farm in the Red River valley.
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