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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1919)
N0T?T1T PT.ATTTi' TWT WVVKT V TTUnrw Cities Tackle the Food Problem Variety of Ways, Some of Them Unusual, Are Being Tried Out. HOW ONE CITY SELLS FOOD Houston, Tex., Handles Fruits and Vegetables In Competition With Tenants of Its Municipally. Owned Market House. (Prepared by the United States Depart, ment of Agriculture.) 11 . t i i mi. iiii.h VIlSIIIIIOIl, illlU IIlUUlCl)UlllIL'a nre Kick I Inn tliolr local food problem! In a vnrloty of ways, soino of tlictn unusual, Is evidenced by reports re ceived by tbo city marketing division of tbc bureau of markets, United titatcfl department of agriculture. From establishing curb markets, re modeling, or building retail market bouses, efforts of cities bave expanded until some nre actually selling food supplies, while one city of about O.T, 000 population Is operating a farm and selling produce from It nt retail. How One City Sells Food. Houston, Tex., which has a nuinlcl pally owned retail market house, has taken over three stnlls In the build ing and Is handling fruits and vege tables in competition with Its tenants. In order to be fair to other retailers It charges Itself with all overhead ex penses paid by other dealers, Including rent, and also pays wages higher than those paid In other stalls. Reports on ten weeks' operation of the city managed stalls show that It Is possi ble to buy and sell produce In com petition with local merchnnts at both n direct and Indirect saving to con sumers. The experiment Is to bo en larged to Include food products other than fruits and vegetables and Is said to be already serving as n stabilizing Influence on prices In that city mar ket. Competing merchants have be come Interested In the methods of do lug business of the cltyoperated stalls and appear anxious to try out prac tices that would enablo them to lower their prices. Allentown, I'a., has gone Into farm ing on a farm acquired for other pur poses which, through changes In mu nicipal plans, was lying Idle. Under the direction of one of the city alder men this farm Is producing vegetables and selling them nt retail In competi tion with shlppod-in produce. Tbo farm also feeds 1,000 head of hogs on city garbage. Local advocates of the plan now propose to Include the use of an old browery as a storage ware house for potatoes and other products grown by local farmers, so as to lessen the city's dependence on shlpped-ln products. Although the buroau of markets, through Its city market division, Is keeping In touch with developments in many cities and Is compiling In formation for use In answering In quiries, It states that it would bo glad to hear from any cities, not as yet reached by formal Inquiry, which are working on local food problems through municipally owned shops nnd by other methods differing from those that' have been followed In the past. HEADS ARMY CHAPLAINS This photograph shows Ulflioj Hayes, who Is soon to go to France a? head of the American army chaplains. He will go as a civilian, having de clined a commission. The bureau plans to make available In formation In regard to the successes nnd failures of cities In their offorts to solve their food problems In order that municipalities contemplating special action mny have the benefit of the ex perience of communities faced with similar conditions. First Battle of the Marne Cost Nearly 750,000 Men Tho bloodiest bnttle of the world wnr was tho first battle of the Marne. Olllclal figures Just Issued In Paris show the losses were: Dead 320,000 Wounded 400,000 Total ...720.000 This means that this one bnt tle cost nenrly three-quarters of a million men. The figures In clude, of course, tho losses on both sides, "Old Razor Man" Was a Woman San Francisco. Tho death of "John Young," known for yeurs along the highways between this city and Los Angeles as "tho quaint old razor man," discloses a secret long kept that the real name of tho old peddler was Anna O'Connell. For many years, left alone In the world, she had worn men's cloth ing to enable her to earn a living un molested. Dies on Doorstep. She died on the doorstep of the homo of Edwin A. Turner, a toy-maker, In Green street. The Turners were her REMARKABLE LAUNCHING AT FALL RIVER A most reinui-Kuoie launching wu leecmlj executed at Full River. .Mass., when tho steamer Iladnot, a 1:1,500-ton tanker, was launched 1)1)0-10 per cent completed. Steam was up and her whistle wus blowing when she hit tho water, Tho Iladnot Is 430 feet in length, CO feet wide and can make 1014 knots. friends of early years. When her wan derings brought her to this city sh always went to their home. Thej chanced to bo out this time when slu called. A lodger In the house lnformec her they would soon be back. She wiu weak and ill, and ns she turned on the doorstep she sunk down, clutching at her heart, and died. Mr. Turner now feels free to tell her story. "More than twenty years ago," he said, "my wife and I mado tho ac quaintance of a Canadian gentlewom an, Mrs. Anna O'Connell. She wut then living In Montgomery block, with her only child, Marie. Her husband, a Canadian army oillcer and a native of Yorkshire, England, hnd died. "In the fire and enrthquake of 100(7 Mrs. O'Connell and her daughtei dropped out of sight. We heard noth ing of them, nnd, flnnlly, we went ou a long visit to the Island of Guernsey in the English channel, my native ti ,i iiim-v. vihjui nve years ago we re turned to Snn Francisco. "One evening when my wife was alone nt home there was a knock al tho door. Opening It she saw a little old man wearing a small mustache. 'I am a brother of your old friend Mrs. Anna O'Connell,' the cnller said 'Don't I resemble her?' My wife re plied: 'Yes, the likeness Is striking; come In.' They hnd a cup of tea atid talked. Tells Her Story. "Suddenly, the old mnn rose, put his arms around my wife nnd said: 'I am Mrs. O'Connell ; look well nt me.' "My wife was too surprised foi words. Then the old peddler explained that she had adopted men's clothes In order to make a living, for her daugh ter had died and she wns alone. She was in tne house when I returned home. My wife and I both promised to keep her secret. From that tlme-sho visited us once a year. We were her ouiy intimates, sue find wished to live In San Frnnclsco, but the cllmato of tho south suited her delicate health better, and so she mnde her home In I'asadena. We knew from her that she sold razor and knife-blade shnrp eners, walking from place to place, and getting frequent lifts from passing mo tor cars. We will see that sho has de cent burial." CAPITALS - "Hi Small Pay Drives 2,000 Officers Out of U. S. Army tlTASIIINGTON. Two thousand regular army ofllcers linvo resigned In the year since hostilities closed. This emphatic demonstration that the high cost of living und tiie Inadequate pay of the soldiers who led the fighting In the great war are rapidly demoralizing HERE'S WHERE I RESICrt- tho regular personnel, wus ninfio public from Secretary linker's ofllce without any comment ns to what tho war de partment proposes to do to remedy the sltuution. The two thousandth resignation wns that of Capt. Edward Canfleld, .Tr . const artillery corps, native of New York stnte, nnd graduate of West Point, who, nftcr serving in the tem porary grade of colonel, wns forced to return to the rank of captain with smnllcr pny than Is drawn hy government bricklayers in Washington. In tho general statement setting forth the dangerous situation the army Is facing the war department said: "Tho average pay of a railroad trainmaster Is $325 per month; about equal to the base pay of a colonel, which is $4,000 per annum. Bricklayers employed ou government work In Washington nnd vicinity are paid $9 per day, or at the rate of .?2,8G2 per annum ; the base pay of a enptain Is $2,400. "So Captain Canfleld. who is an expert In construction, resigned to accept a position in civil life. "The resignations of trained army olllcers are apparently having a psy chological effect upon tho military academy from which, under normal condi tions, ofllcers would be drawn to replace those going out. "November .1 the adjutant general repotted 603 vacant appointments to West Point Of these 280 are to replace the .Tune graduating class, but 214 are vacancies In tho authorized strength of the endet corps." "Open Door" for Interstate Automobiles Asked UNLIMITED automobile reciprocity among the several states and the Dis trict of Columbia soon will receive the attention of Congress, as several bills on the subject hnvo been Introduced In both branches and have found place on tho dockets of the interstate commerce committees. In the house Its committee passes upon both Interstate and foreign com merce, and becnuse of this fact the reciprocity measure just introduced by Representative Burton E. Sweet of Iowa best meets the general needs of tho situation. This bill has tho In dorsement of the American Automo bile association, which for a period of years has been seeking from congress the "open door" In registration reci procity. Not only does Mr. Sweet's draft provide for unlimited recognition of registration numbers throughout tho United Stntes, but It also authorized tho secretary of state to arrange with foreign nations so that any American going abroad can be equipped with n registration tng on which "U. S." will be substituted for the name of his state and In consequence be acceptable In all European countries which are signatories in the use of the so-called "Interna tional plnte of identity." This arrangement has been In existence In Europe for a period of years, somewhat Interrupted by the wnr, but now to be resumed ugaln, undoubtedly with a subsequent accompaniment in the form of an "International triptych" which will relate to customs duties. Americans traveling abroad have been obliged to accept the courtesy of Great Britain or France In arranging for tho international plate, which has been somewhat awkward LA Y m t WHERE Denlnls make little faults great. SUES FATHER FOR $300,000 Minnesota Girl Bays He Ordered i Out After Entlclno Her to HIb Home. Her Duluth, Minn, A damage suit for $300,000 hns been llled In district court by MIhs Ednn O. Budd, forty-two, of St. Paul, against her father, Dr. J.- D. Budd of Duluth, department comman der of tho G. A. It. Miss Budd Ib tho daughter of tho Duluth physician and philanthropist by a former marriage and did not learn Mr. Budd was her father until she had reached maturity. Sho charges that Doctor Budd In duced her to abandon tho name of her adopted father, Miller, and to como to his home In Duluth, where one hour after arrival, sho said, he "directed and commanded her to leavo his houso and informed tier unit her presenco was not desired." i Spanish railroads are conducting campaigns of education along their linos lo Improve agricultural eondl tlons. NO CHANGE IS GIVEN . Mexican Merchants Refuse Make Small Sales. to Sliver Coins Are So Valuable They Are Being Hoarded and Sold for Their Metal. Mexico City. Tho most persistent phrase encountered by the buying pub lic In Moxlco at present Is "No hay eamblo," "there Is no change." Tho sliver in the Mexican peso, 00-cont piece, nnd the smaller coins Is worth more than the face value of the coins, so this money has been hoarded by many persons and sold for their silver content. iiie result is mat "cummo," or change, has disappeared and persons who buy or sell are forced to pay from 4 to 1 per cent for silver pieces from brokers. Most merchants refuse to make small sales If they are forced to give change,vassertlng they would lose money In tho transaction. The "nztcca," or Mexican 20-neso piece (gold) Is practically usel.v(i money In stores or cafes when tho purchase Is for a small amount. "I might as well bo broke as have an nztocn," comnliilned nn Amm-i who was hungry and could not llutl a cafe to change his gold. Later he lilt upon a unique scheme. He deposited tho "nzteca" with the cafe proprietor and proceeded to eat at Intervals until he had no more credit, which, with prevailing prices, was not a long time. Child Put $1,950 In Kitchen Stove. Sioux City, Iu. When Nikolai Peloid sold his little homo he received $1,000 In bills. The following morning' he gave tho money to his wife, who laid It on tho table nnd stepped Into anoth. er room. Whllo sho was gone her five year old child placed tho roll In tli( kitchen stove. "Death Dance of the Millions" in Carranza's Land DISCOVERY of a shortage of 151,514,476.80 pesos, or more than $75,000 " at par In American money, In tho ofllce of tho controller of Mexico fo yenr 1018 has causod a sensation, according to advices from Mexico This department, which Thomns R. LI11, a member of the Bruere commis sion from tho United States, told the United States senate committee Inves tigating Mexican affairs was the greatest achievement of tho commis sion, has just made its report for the last calendar year, and under the head of funds unaccounted for, lists this amount. According to tho report the Item covers disbursements for which no proper vouchers were obtain able. Tho advices state that El Uni versal, a leading newspaper of Mexico City, declnrcs that there Is no record of tho arrest of a single defaulting paymaster of the government, or of ono foelnc comnolled to turn over funds not ids own to make irood- n shortage. It points out that a recent order of the controller directed that all sums paid to tho military should be accented without Investigation Excelsior, nnothcr lending pnper of tho Mexican capital, In nn article entitled "Tho Death Dance of the Millions," calls attention to the silence of olllcers. and says that the lack of satisfactory statistics prevent gauging at all accurately "how deep tho wounds are which tho last ten years of revolutionary unhcavel have caused on the public body." "The account of the federal ex penses for 1018 shows," says this new3pcper, "the mngnltude of the disaster which no ono todn.v dares to call the redeeming und regenerative revolution, on which Its most fervent adherents have now turned, their backs and have lieirun to renudliite." As to the accounts of 1017, this paper says, tho disorder so far shown Is oven greater and the reports will probably have to be simply pigeon-holed nnd forKotten. It adds that In the face of tho present disclosures the only remedy will bo to suppress tho controllers olllco, Santa Fe: Old, Old Capital City of the Southwest n PEAKING on n bill to give an additional federal building to Santa Fe, U N. M., Representative Chnrles J. Thompson of Ohio hnd this to say in part: "Ono nr Mm Intcrestlnc buildings at Santa Fo is the old palace of tho gov ernors, and from this building for 300 years snnin ruieu a mrgo part oi North America now n part of tho Unit ed States Montana, part of Texas, part of Kansas, and part of Oklahoma It was built In 1000313 years ago by Juan do Onnte, who was tho croat irrnndson of Montezuma, tho Aztec emperor of ancient Mexico, and tho grandson of Ilernnndo Cortez, tho Spanish conquewr who subdued and took over the- Aztec or Indian civilian tlon of Mexico and, with the sword In nnn lmnd nml Mu prnea In tho nihir. substituted Snanlsh civilization. El Palaclo, as the building Is termed In Spnnlsh, wns originally designed for n nalace. castle, and fortress. "Its vicissitudes durlnc moro than threo centuries, under Spnnlsh, Indian Moxlcan, and American rule, formed a most dramatic and thrilling chapter In the hlstorv of tho nation. For threo centuries It was not only tho seat of frnvnrimiont. hut also tho homo of cantalns ceneral nud governors, their retainers and families, nnd from Urao to time it housed tho dungeon, the Jail tho nost otllcD. the leuislnturc. the supremo court, tho territorial secretary nnd family, tho territorial law library, nnd law olllces. On every pnge of tho history of tho venemblo edifice ono Muds romance, stfrrb'g Incidents, nnd im.uirtnnt oniRiuins. In which tho flcurcs of Snunlsh ctnquerors nnd Frnn- .i.nn monks. Indian chieftains and American adventurers, soldiers, states men, authors, scientists, nnd dainty society ladles step into tho spotlight to vanish ugaln as Father Time, grim una incxoritDio. swings nis scyiue. 8 M JBfiSSf the making of A FAMOUS MEDICINE How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Is Prepared For Woman's Use. A visit to the laboratory where thlft successful remedy is mado impresses even tho casual looker-on with the reli ability, accuracy, skill and cleanliness which attends tne making of this great medicino for woman's ills. Over 350.000 nounus of various herbs are used anuafly and all have to be gathered at tho season of the year when their natural juices and medicinal sub- stances nro at their best The most successful solvents nro used to extract tho medicinal properties from theso herbs. Every utensil and tank that comes ir contact with tho medicino is sterilized and as a final precaution in cleanliness the medicino is pasteurized and sealed in sterilo bottles. It is the wonderful combination of roots nnd herbs, together with tho skill and care UBed in its preparation which has mado this famous medicines so successful in tho treatment of female ills. Tho letters from women who hava been restored to health by tho use of Lydia E. 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