Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-03-03 | Page 12 | Iceland Swapping Skis and Skates for Automobiles |

Type	issue
Date	1917-03-03
Paper	Ogden Daily Standard
Language	eng
City	Ogden
County	Weber
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Article Title	Iceland Swapping Skis and Skates for Automobiles
Type	article
Date	1917-03-03
Paper	Ogden Daily Standard
Language	eng
City	Ogden
County	Weber
Page	12
OCR Text	Show ICELAND SWAPPING SKIS AND SKATES FOR AUTOMOBILES Iceland i; investing a little cash in automobiles. In a simjlo week of the current month $3,000 worth of automobiles and parts thereof were shipped there The entire area of Iceland Is but 10:000 6quaro miles, or about equal to the state of Kentucky, and a large proportion is absolutely roadless. Yet its population of 85.000 took from thr I United States in the fiscal vear 1916 over $250.0u0 worth of merchandise against $75,000 the year before the beginning be-ginning of the war For the single month of August the total was $45,000, against but $4,000 in the same month two years ago. Ordinarily it takes most of its imports of about $1,500,000 from Denmark. oo
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