Aftenposten
- The King visits Borregaard's home exhibition.
- Grim car accident last night at Nesset in Bundefjorden.
- Border control is working well, believes the chief of police at Fredrikshald.
The readable parts of this front page cover three stories. A special correspondent followed the King's visit to Borregaard's home exhibition, describing crowds who braved rain and wind outside the factories and a little boy who said the King had greeted him. From Drøbak came a telegraphed report of a 1½-ton lorry that overturned down a slope at Nesset in Bundefjorden after pulling aside for an oncoming horse. And the police chief at Fredrikshald judged that border control was working well: passengers arriving by train from abroad were asked where they came from and where they were going, and shown the official precautions against foot-and-mouth disease.
Translation
The King visits Borregaard's home exhibition.
From Aftenposten's special correspondent.
Outside the factories the public defied rain and wind to catch a glimpse of the King. "Have you seen him?" "He said hello to me," a little chap answers smartly. When the King passed through the square in the morning, a small boy came running. "Where are you off to?" someone asks him.
Grim car accident last night at Nesset in Bundefjorden.
Aftenposten's correspondent telegraphs from Drøbak: Last night at about 7 o'clock a grim car accident occurred at Tohellingen near Nesset, Bundefjorden. The cause of the accident was an oncoming horse, for which the driver had to pull aside. The car, a 1½-ton lorry, went out onto the loose edge of the road and overturned down a 1½-metre-high slope. It came to rest with its whe– …
Border control is working well, believes the chief of police at Fredrikshald.
… who arrive by train from abroad where they have come from and where they are going, and at the same time to show them the poster with the precautions that have been issued with regard to foot-and-mouth disease. All travellers who come from districts where there is a danger of infection and who are bound for Norwegian rural districts are, with …
Context
Why train passengers faced foot-and-mouth checks in November 1926
Foot-and-mouth disease is an acute, malignant and contagious viral disease that chiefly attacks cloven-hoofed animals, especially cattle and pigs. Its routes of infection are many: transport of animals and milk, purchases of feed, contact between people and imports of meat. Norway's first outbreak came in Sørlandet in the autumn of 1926; it was effectively fought and ended in the spring of 1928. This report of 10 November 1926 therefore falls early in the country's first epizootic. Because people themselves could carry infection, the police chief at Fredrikshald describes asking every passenger arriving by train from abroad where they had come from and where they were going, and showing them the poster of official precautions. The report then turns to travellers from districts with a danger of infection who were bound for Norwegian rural districts, but the excerpt breaks off before saying what was done with them. The judgement that the control 'works well' is the police chief's own, as the headline makes clear; the readable text offers no figures to test it.
Borregaard, Norway's largest industrial workplace, and housing for its workers
Borregaard was established in 1889 in the town of Sarpsborg in Østfold, and in 1918 a holding company was set up to transfer the business into Norwegian hands. The company came to account for most of Norway's cellulose production and quickly became the largest industrial workplace in the country. In the interwar years an acute housing shortage arose, and the company actively set about building homes for its employees; relations with the workers in this period were also better than at most other industrial firms. That record helps explain why a royal visit to a Borregaard 'home exhibition' merited a special correspondent and drew crowds to the factory gates. The readable excerpt, however, describes only the crowds and the children, not what the exhibition displayed, so any link between the exhibition and the company's housebuilding is an inference from the headline rather than something the page states.
Haakon VII and the ceremonial role of Norway's king
The King in this report was Haakon VII, who was King of Norway from 1905 until his death in 1957. Although the constitution gave the monarch considerable executive powers, in practice he confined himself to a representative and ceremonial role and rarely interfered in politics, and he gained much sympathy from the Norwegian people. A visit to an industrial company's exhibition in 1926 belongs to that representative side of the office. Aftenposten's correspondent conveys the King's popularity through street scenes rather than statements: people defying the weather for a glimpse of him, a little boy declaring that the King had greeted him, another child running across the square. These are the reporter's own observations of a single day, the kind of human detail with which the paper framed royal visits, not a measured gauge of public opinion.
Original
Kongen besøker Borregaards hjem-utstilling.
Utenfor fabrikkene trodset publikum regn og blaast for at faa et glimt av Kongen. Har du set'n? Han hilste paa mig, svarer en liten pjok mundrapt. Da Kongen om formiddagen passerte torvet, kom en smaagut løpende. - Hvor skal du? spør en ham.
Uhyggelig bilulykke igaaraftes ved Nesset i Bundefjorden.
Fra Drøbak telegraferer «Aftenposten» s korrespondent: Igaaraftes ved 7-tiden hændte en uhyggelig bilulykke i Tohellingen ved Nesset, Bundefjorden. Aarsaken til bilulykken var en møtende hest, som man maatte kjøre til side for. Bilen, en 1½ tons lastebil, kom ut paa den løse veikant og veltet utfor en 1½ m. høi skraaning. Den blev liggende med hju -
Grænsekontrollen virker bra, mener politimesteren paa Fredrikshald.
som kommer med toget fra utlandet hvorfra de kommer og hvor de skal hen, og samtidig forelægge dem plakaten med de forsiktighetsregler som er utfærdiget med hensyn til mund - og klovsyken. Alle reisende som kommer fra smittefarlige distrikter og som skal til norske landdistrikter blir med