THE AUGUSTANA BOOK CONCERN

Was incorporated as a stock company under the above title in July, 1884, S. P. A. Lindahl, Pres.; James Moody, Sec.; C. P. Rydholm, Treas., with a capital stock of $15,000, Jonas Westling, Manager. Does a general book publishing and importing business; sales an luaily amount to about $25,000. This company publishes principally religious books, papers, tracts and periodicals. They publish a weekly paper called the Augitstana och Missionaren, which has a circulation of 8,000 ; a monthly Sunday-school paper called the Olive Leaf, circulation 9,000 ; and a semi-monthly Swedish magazine called the (Ung- domsvannen, or Youths Friend. These papers are edited by the faculty of the college.

 

 

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