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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1919)
f4 I'4 Bir. 14 It. V. I- THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. Kmmmmmmmmmmmmm . THOUSANDS OF FOREIGNERS SAIL FOR EUROPE QUEEN OF SPAIN OPENS RESTAURANT IN MADRID The prediction that nn exodus of foreign born would mark the conclusion of the great world war became n reality recently when three liners, packed to capacity with foreigners, Bulled for European ports. The photograph showa o partial view of the crowded decks of one of the vessels bound for Italy. WEST POINT GRADUATES TO STUDY UNDER PERSHING Queen Victoria of Spain (extreme r.Ight) watching the llrst meal being served to the hungry poor of Madrid In a" restaurant she opened to relieve their suffering. WAR-BATTERED CZECHO-SLAV SOLDIERS Wttrri tit tfipap,, l ' Two hundred and twenty-seven second lieutenants, recent graduates of West i'olnt, sailed for France to report to General Pershing for study of the strategy of war. They will visit the battlefields ,of Europe under the guidance of military experts. HUN SPY AND ACCOMPLICE ON WAY TO BE SHOT KEEPS TAB ON SUN Living under the guise of a Swiss this Prussian ami his female accomplice wcro Instrumental In the killing of -10 French soldiers. The photogruph shows them being led to the placo of execution. ' "COLUMBUS OF THE AIR" VISITS MOTHER mm 1 viiV.' I ww1 tl, hung- M. 1 A battalion of Czecho-Slnv soldiers from Siberia on their way to Camp Kearney, California, for rest and recuper ation. They nro shown marching from the San Diego pier on their way to the ienrney uase nospitai. ADDING A NEW STAR BOUND PEACE TREATY ARRIVES AT VERSAILLES This Is one of tire tower telescopes, ISO feet In height, of the ML Wilson observntory, near Pasadena, Cnl used for astronomical observations of the sun. Lieutenant Commander Albert 0. Heed recently visited his mother nt the little Capo Cod town of South Hanson for tho llrst time since making his transatlantic trip. Ills mother Is shown pinning a victory roso on his coat. MUCH JNUTTLE A snmplo of the type of bicycle sad dles offered for sale In Denmark by German manufacturers has been re ceived by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce from Commercial Attache ISrwIn W. Thompson of Co pinlingon. This saddle may lie exam ined ut tho Now. York district olllco of the hurr-uu upon referring to Kilo No. 20038. Mont than 132,000 tractors were Experimenters in Europe havo found that slag from garbage Incinerating plants Is nu excellent substitute for gravel In mixing with cement In tho manufacture of concrete. The population of Germany, accord ing to religion, Protestants, Catholics and Jews. Is given by Gustnv Sund lwirg In "Webb-MullmU" as follows (before the wnr) : Protestants, 215,-100,-000; Roman Catholics. 20,300,000; Jews, 015,029. New York's "Ghetto." A vivid ptcturo of New York's low er East side Is drawn by Mnry Frank, librarian of tho Rlvlngton struct branch of the New York Public li brary. In tho Century. She writes iu part as follows: "The street was crowded with peo ple. Up and down, as far as the eye could range, rows of push-carts lined tho curb. Gray-bearded patriarchs, mothers with babies In their arms. bargained for fruits and vegetables, hardware, handkerchiefs, hats, under wear, furbelows of n thousand klnls, Aged grandmothers, bent, stood abide from tho crowd and gazed with tired and wrinkled faces on the rushing life; and thoro were children, children children, dodging In and out, running up nnd down, evorywhere. Over It all the dickering torches of the push carts throw an Old-World light. This was the very heart of Now York's Ghetto, a great city Itself, of vague and distant boundaries, nil within our Greater New York" Miss -tilth Alnco is the Betsy Ross . of tho National Woman's party. Tins photograph shows her sewing mo eleventh stnr on tho suarago nag, a purple, white and gold emblem. The Inst star Is for Missouri. Suffrage workers hope to secure the required .10 states by 1020, the centenary of the birth of Susan 1$. Anthony. The leather-bound cow of the peace treaty arriving at the palace of Ver sailles for signing. PATROLS READY FOR NEW MEXICAN OUTBREAKS Acetylene Popular. The use of acetylene for illumination hns reached such proportions In Den mark that nearly twenty different types of lamps have been invented there. Geography In Universities. colleee study, since Its first appearance lu a university curriculum niiout nan u ceiumj hk, is discussed by Prof. R. II. Whltbeck of the University of Wisconsin, in uiu Journal of Geography. He points out m. fniimvinif Interesting incis: In 1800 Harvard nnd Princeton were the only American universities In Geography. Cor nell and tho University of Wisconsin introduced the subject in ioocj. mm Ynle followed In 1672. In 1000 only 1" American universities taught the, subject, but by 1010 31 universities were oncring a courses. With 704 students enrolled In geog raphy, the University of Wisconsin led in 1010. With 1,009 enrolled In 1017, it led nil others except the Uni versity of Pennsylvania. It now of fers seven courses In physical and economic geography, climatology and other phases of tho subject. Caustic Soda In Demand. War needs greatly increased the de mand for many chemlcnls in this coun try but of all tho so-called heavy 1 " cr.ii.i lmK. norhnrs. cheinicms, been the most in demand. Indeed, so pressing has been tho need for this particular commodity In the war In dustries thut Its manufacture in the " Mmn doubled since uniicii oiniw ----- 19M. and oven so it has been neces sary to place n virtual embargo on Its export. I Three-Inch Held pieces going to their station on the border along the Rio Grande. The military authorities nfo taking all necessary precautions to bo ready for any now outbreak ou tho Mexican border. POSTSCRIPTS Alnrge vegetable oil mill has been opened at Andalas, near Padang. Su matra. It Is owned and operated by oleomargarine Interests of the Neth erlands, and Insures It promoters n steady supply of vegetable oils. Halloas comet, on Its Inst appear- More than 151,000 tons of crude peat were produced in tho United States last year, exceeding the best previous year by about CO per cent. For testing screw-threaded mnehfno parts for extreme nccuracy apparatus has been designed that projects mag nified pictures of them on a screen. The Ilrltlsh government has closed Among the now appllunces to heln I 1 --Sjkas,a-