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night. Jukola is known far and wide among Finnish Americans, and the numbers of its `alumni' who have scattered widely to other places in the United States and Canada must still number in the hundreds, if not in the thousands.

But everything changes, and the young men of Jukola have grown old along with the rest of the Finns. Jukola served its purpose, and although the building still stands, its restaurant still remains open, its rooms occupied, the men left there now are old men, living on their pensions. The ardor of new faiths and burning ideals has given way to peace and quiet and old age.

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News office of the "Työmies" in Virginia. Sigrid Ekroos (Lemberg), clerk;
Adolph Heiskanen, manager; John Huttunen, customer.

The Työmies News Agency: In writing of the workers' press in Virginia, first mention belongs to a newspaper, the Pohjalainen, which was published here and partly in Duluth in 1902-03, and which was edited by Eetu Aaltio, Wäinö Koivisto and Arvid Södergren (and, according to Ilmonen, also by Antero Ahde. ) Next came the Työmies News Agency, in operation from 1912 to 1914, and where mining regions news for the paper was written, and books and stationery were sold. The office also transmitted money to Finland and sold steamship tickets. Adolph F. Heiskanen

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