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J.RI How about Finnish choirs and bands?RRIWere you involved in anything like that at Wolf Lake?RI But you were still on the farm during the First World War?R Oh yes.I Did the war change your life style at all?RI How about the Depression?RI How large a family did you have?RWe had 7 children.I When did you move to Duluth?R 1925.I You've been here ever since then right?RYesI When did you retire from barbering?
leW noinu actualy died and I I didn't was next ~uly in retire line ~or because the job. one o~ I tried the members to do bot o~ t ouranddnuo~ out I couldn't so I closed the barber shop and had that bus ness'tnega job ~or ~ive years.My he got brother, sick next from to it the and oldest, died. I worked never in did the work mines in the in mines Bute Mont myse :f until butI knew quite a few miners.4.RI Was your clientel mainly Finnish or mixed?RIMixed.Have you noticed that the Finnish would want to stick together an~ gotothe Finnish businessmen?IR To a certain extent yes. When I went to night school I also stud edincome tax and when I got out right away they levied tax on thesmall businesses..mostly so I got busy right away and started fig ingtaxes. Then the following year they levied taxes on the common p opleso I took that on. It would have been more than a full time job utI kept on barbering too and I still do incometax work yet.IṚIRBeing in that kind of work you must have heard unusual stories abqutunusual people.IOh yes.What stories did you hear?Well one case I was filling out his income tax and I thought he dqesn'thave to file at all and he was worth sever~ hundred thousand dol~ars.I A surprise to you.R Yes, and some Finnish people if you were to see them on the stre , youwould think they were just paupers and they still have maybe a h dredthousand or more. They seem to hang onto their money.IDo you remember hearing any stories about Finnish people who work~d inthe lumber camps or mines?IR Oh yes, lots of them.I Can you think of any of them right now?RIDid you ever hear of ?R I don't think so.I Do you remember anything about the cooperative movements. or thesocialist movements?ROh yes
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