Among immigrants the process of Americanization is extraordinarily swift (observes a New York contemporary). When tho late Professor Bovesen went to Minnesota lie was surprised to find that his fellow Scandinavians preferred to speak English tA him; and it was explained that the use of their nativo tongue would reveal their peasant origin, and thus testify to their social inferiority to a gentleman who had been graduated from the University of Upsala whereas the uso' of English lifted thorn all to the lofty tableland of American citizenship. Woods'a Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs nod Colds uwer foils, If. fid, and 2a. fid. caii
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 199, 16 May 1908, Page 9
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103Page 9 Advertisements Column 1 Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 199, 16 May 1908, Page 9
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