Foreign Language Press Service

Visit of Mr. Vaclav J. Klofac

DennĂ­ Hlasatel, July 22, 1913

According to a report which we have just received, Mr. Vaclav J. Klofac, a member of both the Austro-Hungarian parliament in Vienna and the Bohemian parliament in Prague, will arrive in Chicago next Friday morning. He will be met at the depot by a delegation composed of local members of the National Socialist party.

Mr. Klofac is coming to Chicago to deliver a number of lectures concerning the recent wars and conditions in the Balkans. The Chicago part of his tour of Bohemian settlements in America is being sponsored by the Narodne-Socialni Vzdelavaci Beseda J. V. Fric (J. V. Fric National-Socialist Educational Circle) and covers the following program:

Saturday, July 26: Lecture at the Pilsen Auditorium at 18th Street and Blue Island Avenue.

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Sunday: Official banquet at Mr. Krkavec's restaurant at 19th Street and Blue Island Avenue given to Mr. Klofac by the Narodne-Socialni Vzdelavaci Beseda J. V. Fric.

Monday, July 28: A lecture at Pilsen Park on 26th Street and Albany Avenue; Chinese lantern illumination.

Wednesday, July 30: Lecture in Town of Lake at the hall of the Cesko-Slovanske Podporujici Spolky (Bohemian-Slavonic Benevolent Societies), 48th and Honore Streets.

Thursday, July 31: Lecture at the Sokol Tabor (Tabor gymnastic Unit) hall at 13th Street and 41st Avenue.

Friday, August 1: Lecture at Atlas Hall on Emma Street, Chicago's Northwest Side.

[Translator's note: At the time of his visit to Chicago and for many years 3thereafter V. J. Klofac was the chief leader of the National-Socialist party--the second largest party in Bohemia at that time.]

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