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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1919)
THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. WEIGHING PRIZE WINNERS IN BOSTON BABY SHOW ASHANTI CHIEFS SWEARING LOYALTY TO BRITISH FLAG Aittyor Peters of Boston weighing two of the perfect tots entered in u baby show recently hold In that city, NEW INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE IN .SESSION IN WASHINGTON Scene tit Coomnssle, West Africa, when the chiefs of the Ashnntt were swearing loyalty to tne nag or ureut Britain. Under each umbrella Is n chief, and the larger the umbrella, the greater the chief. FRENCH ARMY SELLS HORSES TO THE FARMERS The opening session of the industrial conference m Washington. Lett to right, seated. Julius Uosenwuld. Henry C. Stuart, Samuel W. McCull, Thomas V. Gregory, Stanley King, and William 11. Wilson. Standing: Hen ry J. Waters, Martin II. Glynn, IUcUnrd Hooker (above) Herbert Hoover, W. O. Thompson, Oscar Straus, George V. Wlckersham, Henry M. Robinson, I'rof. Frank W. Taussig and Owen D. Young. CZECHS RAZE AUSTRIAN MONUMENT PRESENTS A NOVEL IDEA This photograph shows what happened to tho monument which had been erected by Austria on the square where In 1020 many Bohemians wero killed when the Czecho-Slovaks again became supreme In their country. NO SIGNS OF "DRYNESS" IN HUNGARY laiHMw'i swan &H2 Big horso sale In the principal street of a town In southern France. The French government Is now dis posing of n great number of army horses, thus eliminating a big Item of expense and nt the same time providing the farmers with animals to aid In the reconstruction. dug up ancient Eskimos i JQOK RED CROSS SEALS TO WHITE HOUSE A really novel and com nendable I Iden Is at present being fostered by Mine. Grace I'orterlleld Polk, eminent composer, who tuts established In the ! sninll city of Greenwood, Ind., the i "Greenwood Community House" where tho struggling unknown composers may occasionally meet and exchange Ideas with tho veterans and success ful members of the profession, Iu Ibis manner Mine. Polk hopes to cre ate n center for composers, nnd there by to foster and help the composition of masterpieces exprewdng the Ideas i mm lucius oi uu; puopio oi many, aim to mnko America a real "Land of Song" by means of yearly conventions. .Siu li a thing as prohibition Is quite unknown In Hungary, and one of the fiiu'T industries in Unit country Is the cultivation of the grape for wine. The iNK.-raph shows n grower selling grapes by the tubful to n merchant for i V l.llltvlllg. Why Worry7 Multitudes of people seriously mar their lives by continually dwelling upon disagreeable possibilities, antici pating unhappy experiences, most of which are never realized: nmnv umm I to he so made up that they are the . victims of worry, Just as some people tiro uttulo up to be gullible, says New t Success. Thoy catch overy excuse that comes along ror indulging their worry 'ng propensities. A colored woman reminded her easy i going husband that the rent had to bo paid in six days. "Then we sure don't have to worry about it ror tne next live days," ho replied. "It's 'nough to worry on the doy It Is due. when It must bo paid." Some people might learn a lesson from this philosophical IiusIiiuk' nr not worry until they have to William B. Valln, famed explorer nnd head of the John Wanamaker ex pedition to the arctic, who returned to the United States recently after two years spent in the frigid regions of , the North. The explorer while dig- j ging some dlstanco from one of the Es kimo villages visited discovered a uiun- her of Igloos entirely covered with lee. Excavating, he found bodies clad In . reindeer skin, duck skln, etc. Iudien-1 tlons were that the bodies had been i frozen In the Ice for hundreds of j years. lie snipped a nuniner or the skeletons home, but the covering gar ments fell to pieces as soon as ex- nosed to the air. Tho collection will i be placed In the museum of the Unl verslty of Pennsylvania. Master Jack Baker, (son of Secretary of War Baker). "Knight Banneret," and Miss Adrlenne Mayer, the "Littlest Knight Banneret," who presented Bed Cross seals at the White House. Little Miss Mayer has good reasons to be proud of her order, for General Perbhlng himself pinned It on her tiny coat and kissed her. Caesar's Slow Rise to Fame. No one has so deeply Influenced the course of history as Julius Caesar, for It Is to him that we owe the Ho- man empire and all that that empire I has meant to western civilization, In cluding all our Inheritance from the . old world. He was one of the world's i greatest men. But until he was forty years of age his name was oversbad-1 owed by thut of Pompey, and he was j a politician rather than n soldier, It ( was not tilt lie was roriy-two that he became a general nnd wn given the commnnd of the armies In Onul, by which he Is best known. TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES Now York has a moving picture the ater with a seating cnpirelty of 5.300. Cnptnln Fryntt's steamship Brussels has been offered by the Belgian gov ernment to the British government. The germ theory of the transmission of disease was entertained as long ago as 1057. when Home was ravaged by the plague. M. Plou, deputy, nnd Mine. Plou were attacked by burglars in their mansion at Cadlras. Glronde, both being serl miwlv In lined. Orders for the construction of new passenger airships of the Bodensee type have been placed by the German Aerial company. To quickly clean a rifle n European Inventor bus patented a brush that can be mounted In place of a bullet on a cartridge and tired from It. A new bathroom accessory hold' a nimbler lit nn lnerted position to drain quickly nnd ' '- serves te ntllated shield for notb brushes. An electric pen hns been Invented by n native of India that carbonizes paper over which It passes. Guatemala's first plant for the man ufacture of Portland cement has been started by Amerlcnn Interests. A new pocket case for personal or business cards ejects n card part of Its length ns n lever Is pressed. Tho Italian government has decided to electrify 0,000 kilometers of rail roads with power obtained from wa terfalls. More than 00 per cent of tho nlco hol and alcoholic drinks mnde In the Philippines are derived from palm tree Juices. The speaker of tho British house of commons Is obliged by custom to give seven olllclnl dinners ench season to tbp members of parliament. Every widow In the village of Econ omy, Ind. there nro .13 has received a bushel of Colorado potatoes, tho gift of Woyno Mncey, a Colorado farmer, who formerly lived in Kmn-or.iy.