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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1918)
THE SEMI-WEEKLY TWIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA 1 American soldier In training ciunp equipped for ImyoiH't drill. '1 French troops marching ulong the country roads on the wny to the trenches at Verdun. 8 Heavy howitzer of the nlllcs In the deep snow on the western front. SCENE AT FIRST AID STATION ON THE MEUSE FRONT CHILDREN GREET AMERICAN MARINES IN FRANCE Truckload of American murines on n road In France, greeted by the children with cheers and bouquets. Wtm &wftv&W?2'v: - m W.;mS.a;a -klMmFiA zi&&M&iH& "Blesses" (wounded men) leaving a first uld station close behind tho Hues at Bras, In the Mouse sector, after hnvlm: had their wounds treated. The American Red Cross ambulances that were sent to Italy to help the Italian forces have arrived at the :rom. This photograph, which has just arrived In this country, shows the ambulances crossing the Piazza del Duomo Id Milan on their way to the battleground. THEIR CHURCH IN A RUINED VILLAGE Canadian troopers leaving tho Improvised church which they havo ar ranged In a little French village that has been shot all to pieces. f KNITTING MACHINE SPEEDS UP WORK IN MEMORY OF VIMY HEROES MISS BLANCHE GEARY MAKING PICTURES UNDER SHELL FIRE This monument lias been erected tr. tho Canadian nrtlllcrymcn who" fell during the great battle of VImy llldgc, Ileal German shells arc used at tho base to support tho chains. Made In America. Scene: A. cigar store at Inventory time, evidently, for In addition to tho usual shelf and counter displays tho lloor Is piled high with boxes, Jars and crates of "smokes" of every descrip tion. Enter an elderly and respectable person. H. and R. P. (solemnly) I beg your pardon, uavo you any cigars or ciga rettes hero? Clerk (gravely) Ono moment, please. I'll sec. If there be such a thing as n dis tinctively American brand of humor, perhaps that conversation Is as good nn example as any. In Germany the clerk would have been insulted; In Franco ho would hove, laughed; In Knglnnd ho would havo Bald: "Yes, sir." Collier's Weekly. American women who Journey to Paris during this war have now a hotel of their own where they can stop. Tho Y. W. C. A. has opened the Hotel Potrogrnd especially for their comfort and placed Miss Blanche Geary in charge as mannger. Miss Geary Is well fitted for the task, for she Is tho building construction export of the Y. W. C. A. Before going abroad for the association she superintended the con tracts for tho Y. W. O. A. hostess houses nt Plattsburg, Fort Worth, Tex:; Fort Riley and Army City, Kan.; Luwton, Okla., and Allentown, Pa. Tho comforts committee of tho Navy League of tho United States bus Installed In its headquarters several knitting machines for making sweaters, toulllors, socks and other wearing apparel for our lighters. A pair of socks Ann bo turned out on n machine in JIG minutes. An appeal has been sent out to patriotic knitters to operate machines Instead of knitting by hand, and jHjeroby speed up tho work. Records of Severe Winters. In old records of hard winters in the middle ages the raco today hardly ree- ognlzen tho planet It lives on. For example: In tho year 401 tho Black sea was entirely frozen over. In -102 tho Danube was frozen, so that Then- domer marched on tho Ico to Swaba to avongo his brothers death. In 7fl.'t tho cold was so Intense that tho Strait of Dardanelles and tho Black sea wero' entirely frozen over. The snow In some plucoH was 50 feet deep, and tho Ico' was heaped In such quantities on the. cities as to cause tho wills to fall down. Wildcats Stop Mining. Threo wildcats tied up operations at tho mines of tho Abel (Pa.) Coal com pany and Incidentally cut down tho production uoo tons. The nnlmals had- been prowling ibout tho mines for n week or more, and on one morning, tho heavy white frost on tho grouiyl showed the mln- prs that tno cats nuu gouu uuu uiu nines. There was no evidence or their hnv n b como out, and the miners nssem- hied at tho cntranco and sent some of tho men to get guns. On account of tho unusuni condi tions existing in tho mines It was late heforctho last cot Was killed. No coal was mined while the men wore hunt ing tho cats. When you pick up ono of the many publications which print war photo graphs and see startling .pictures of actual fighting at the front, or when yoc see real battle scenes on tho screen, very rarely do you think of the hazard the photographers run who make tho photographs. This picture shows French photographic operators working near the .front lines within tho range ol enemy fire. The smoke from an exploded shell can he seen. The men In tho photographic division who make the photographs for war records and for the Intelligence bureau aro In as much danger as the men In the trenches. THE GRIM HARVEST OF WAR I ft II I 1 In tho midst of the desolutlon of war In northern France He a uerman transport driver aud his. team, killed by a single high exploslvo shell. V