CROWN OF COLUMBUS
CLAIMED BY NORWAY. CHICAGO, September 21. Five thousand Norwegians paraded the streets yesterday in honor of the memory of Leif Ericson, who has long been regarded by las countrymen as the uncrowned discoverer of America. [Leif Ericson was the son of tho Norseman, Eric tho Red, andj about A.D. 1000, is credited with having discovered a land to the west, which he called Vinland) or “Vineland”). The site of the early settlement lias been variously placed along the Atlantic seaboard or the American continent.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19062, 3 October 1925, Page 3
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87CROWN OF COLUMBUS Evening Star, Issue 19062, 3 October 1925, Page 3
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