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...years ago, just before the Ski races at Stockholm, I decided to get in some early Fall sport, so October found me leaving my native Storvik for Lappland, about 50 mil distant (about 300 English miles.) After two days train ride across to Happaranda I joined my friend Lapp Linnen in his Lapp Kojja (cabin) where we rested in anticipation of a Reindeer hunt the following day. Early dawn found us on the trail of a herd, prepared for six to seven hours journey...
...picketing. Superintendent Bogan pointed out that anyone over 16 who interferes with school sessions may be fined $100, that parents of truants under 16 may be fined from $5 to $20. Superintendent Bogan blamed the strike on 1) Spring; 2) Communism. Two "agitators" named Yetta Barshefsky and Rudolph Lapp were discovered to be members of the Young Communists League. Towards Saturday the strike dwindled, and by last Monday the normal number of Chicago's 400,000 students were back at work...
...Lappish description of Lapp quarreling, drinking and reindeer-stealing (most heinous Lapp offense) see Turi's Book of Lapland by Lapland's sole author of note, Johan Olafsson Turi (b. 1860), who philosophically observes "When you will tell of everything you must write both of the ugly and the beautiful...
Raising herds of reindeer is almost the sole business of nomad Lapps. Illiterate and uncivilized, they make little or no distinction between Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, roam the extreme northern wastes of those countries which they call "Lapland." When winter comes adult nomad Lapps have a persistent habit of getting dead drunk for months at a time, leave to their hardy children the task of feeding the reindeer. When two Lapp men fight in earnest-and if they fight at all it is generally in earnest-the victor is apt to make a eunuch of his foe. Last week...
...office at Fairbanks is a 200-mi. square in the extreme northeast section of the Territory along the Canadian border and the coast of the Arctic Ocean. Somewhere in that wilderness plods a herd of 2,400 reindeer, all that remain of a herd of 3,500. With seven Lapp herders they are on their way from the Seward Peninsula to east of the Mackenzie River in northern Canada. They set out two years ago when Lomen Reindeer Corp. contracted to deliver the herd to the Canadian Government by next summer (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929). Four times...