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Siilinjärvi - Maaninka Local Newspaper

The Ahkiolahti canal was built by hundreds of men, and due to the years of famine, women and children also worked there. Emergency relief work was paid either in money or grain. Despite the large number of workers, the construction progressed slowly, as the starving workforce was not very efficient. Typhoid fever also spread among the workers....

Heikki “Ukko” Pesonen was born in Haapajärvi, Kiuruvesi, on February 26, 1846, and died on January 30, 1920, being nearly 74 years old at the time of his death. After first working in service in his home parish, he became the steward of the Mattila estate in Maaninka, owned by Captain Kohlström, and the Suovu estate in Karttula, also owned...

“Seura” dipping “Pääsky’s” wings in Kuopio harbour in 1864

Savo newspaper 23 November 1950.

Text from the newspaper *Savo*, November 30, 1950

An article in Uutis-Jousi on February 7, 1985, and an article in Savon Sanomat on February 3,1985

One of the tasks of the media is to convey accurate information about the lives and conditions of different groups of people. This purpose was served by the Finnish Broadcasting Company’s programme series “The Village Lives”. In 1949–50, the first series was broadcast from Loppi. Around ten years later, a new village was sought for the series.

The OKA collector’s album is a highly interesting piece of Finnish 1950s consumer history. It is a collector’s book for car and racing car pictures obtained from OKA coffee packages produced by Kahvi Oy, published in 1954–1955.