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...particular attraction in Sweden this year is the Gothenburg Jubilee Exposition which opened on May 8 and which will continue until September 30. It includes unusually good educational, historical, archaeological and fine and applied arts exhibits. The educational exhibits will illustrate in models, charts, photographs and printed matter, the Swedish educational scheme, including a section on the "sloyd" or manual training system in the schools. This "sloyd" is of great significance in the art handicraft and industrial art movement which has taken such great strides in Sweden during the past decade...
...most striking exhibits will be those devoted to archaeology. Three separate archaeological expeditions have been financed by the City of Gothenburg to gather original material for this exhibit. The work began in 1915. One expedition under Dr. Giorg Sarauw, director of the archaeological section of the Gothenburg Museum has combed the Swedish west coast and gathered more than 20,000 objects. Among these is a well preserved skeleton believed to belong to the neolithic period and to be not less than 5000 years old, found near Kungsbacka, a small ancient village near Gothenburg. Another is the tomb of a woman...
...expedition directed by Baron Carl of Uggla, has excavated the medieval city of Old Lodose, near Gothenburg. This city was an important seaport and is thought to have flourished for upwards of a thousand years before it was destroyed in the middle of the Fifteenth Century in the wars between the Swedes and the Danes. A church almost as large as the Gothenburg Cathedral has been unearthed as well as several smaller churches, a hospital, a castle, city walls, private houses, armor, tools, coins and weapons...
Another expedition led by, Dr. Sixten Strombom has excavated the city of New Lodose, successor to the old city, and the immediate predecessor of Gothenburg as Sweden's western seaport. These various archaeological undertakings throw considerable light on Scandinavian history and culture, especially in the medieval period. Dr. Sarauw's work is important in the prehistory of Sweden's west coast, which is one of the richest sections in Sweden from the archaeologist's viewpoint...
William Jennings Bryan is planning to go to Europe to preside at the International Economic Conference at Gothenburg, Sweden, on July 12 and 13. He does not expect to return to the United States until August...