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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1920)
TIFE NORTH PLAtiVE SEMI-WEhJCLY TRIBUNE. VATICAN GARDENS PHOTOGRAPHED FROM THE AIR CEREMONY AT Y. M. C. A. JEWISH HUT IN LONDON 1111 . 5 . i ii i ! i ii i iwnawiMMniixmi Tlio wnt the fllllled g; aniM of irdoim iif tin' mil I'lllS llllll lil llllll tin in Itimic it V. Sfiiiii lmtoj:ru plied fr (if iIk Vatican in mi Italian l'illliiif.'- nro dirigible, shown at The Inn' the low IT (IlT plots lid. l'opre- GERMANY'S NEW POLICE LOOK LIKE SOLDIERS .n unusual pantograph showing Hie I'rltu-oss Helena Victoria attending the Investiture Jewish hut nt Mill- Kail mail. London, and presenting no of Die "Y" workers with the "Order Left to right are Henry Harris, Sir Artlmr npp, Henry Harnett. Princess Helena Victoria Smart W'orley and Mr. Dollaas. at Hie Y M. C. A. of thevUed Triangle." Doctor Hertz, Airs. UNPRECEDENTED ICE SPORTING SEASON AT RED BANK, N. J. ltorr Nosko, Germany's mlnlslor of dofeno, has organized n special police force of picked men well armed ostensibly us a protection against tlio Spiirlnciiiis. They are culled the safety police, and at n momenfs notice are ready lo enter u "police unto" to ho rushed to the place of disturbance. This photograph shows some of the new police olllcers with anus. MARTENS' CHIEF OF STAFF NABBED NANCY LANE, DEBUTANTE Anion- oilier speed crafts seen on the North Shrewsbury river is this novelty airplane used by Lieut. Jack F. Casey In professional flight around Kod Hank. N. .T. The plane Is built so as to allow landings on the Ice. JELLICOE IN WASHINGTON FRENCH PAINTER, BUNDED, IS DECORATED . Among the Hods caught by government ollleinls In the raids that have boon made on their headquarters and homes was (Iregorv Welnsteln "chief .of staff" for Martens who calls himself soviet ambassador' to America' Woln stein, shown bore with two detectives, is said to bo Trotzky's best friend In ! till I'lilttif iit.i HOUSE IN WHICH GENERAL WOOD WAS BORN Latest photograph of Miss Nancy Lime, debutante daughter of Secretary r the Interior and .Mrs. Franklin IC. Lane. She is one of the most popular of Washington's large number of buds. Modem Shorthand Had Birth in 1857. .Modern shorthand hud Its birth in the publication of I Jr. Timothy might's "cliurncteiio" 1So7. the first Fngllsh work on shorthand. Va rious systems of shorthand were pub lished from that time on. all based mi the a b e method, and some of ihem became quite popular, but with the publication of Isaac Pitman's "Phonography," based on sound, all the others foil Into disuse. lMtman had a number of predecessors whoso systems, like his own, were strictly phonetic. These systems never gain id any footing, while his Immediately became popular, and has since boon used by a large majority of shorthand writers of English. ""V. " xtti arts This Is the house Hi which (Ion, Leonard Wood was born In ISfiO. Tlio building stands on tlm main street of "Winchester, N. II., opposite to a statue erected to mcirory of Civil war dead. The lower part of the dwelling has been turned into the town post nltlce. MUCH IN LITTLE A snail, crawling without n pause, would' occupy 1-1 duys fi hours to travel n mile.' Opossums nro raised for their fur on somo farms In Australia. Eminent scientists bcllovo that not u single microbe exists In mountain air above the height of 2,000 feet. Daddy Didn't Fight In Medal War. Little daughter was certainly glad io have her father home after iio had been to Trance for two years, work lug all the way from eight to twenty, four hours In a hospital rendering val uablo aid to the Injured while hearing tlio hum of Gorman "air cooties" high overhead. Daddy noticed daughter giving him tlio once over several times. Finally she seemed to have resolved the thing In her own mind. She was worried be cause daddy did not have any medals pinned to his coat. "Daddy," she lisped, "why didn't you fight u 'n war where they had medals?" Viscount .lelllcoe, admiral of the ISiitlsh Hoot, who has Just been visit ing Washington, is shown bore In com pany with ltear Admiral Nibhiek, U. S. N. Every Day a New Year. I heard tlio pastor preach a New Year sermon Sunday a strong and fine sermon, courageous and full of pop. It bospoko the duty of ovory man to hang on to the plow handles and not quit. It was a perfectly true and sen sible sermon and would have been Just as true and sensible If delivered on tlio Fourth of .Inly or the twelfth of Sep tember or nny other day as on Now Year's day. Now Year's resolutions nro line; but the trouble with most of them Is Unit they are made for a full year and not for a full hour, and that tlio present hour. What wo need to do Is resolve to moot eaeh hour's, each day's, each week's duties with high courage, with serene faith: with no four of consequences, If only we un doing what wo feel to be light. If wo tnk.o care of the next hour the iut day will bo enred for. and if the da.v Is cureil for as it comes the new .vonr Is sure to have no problems collectlvi lj that the day has not intimated ami the hour Itself may not help to solve. A. G. Staples In Levviston .Journal. Scene in the studio of M. Loniordant. French painter who was blinded by n shell oxplusinn during the war, when oflicials of the republic notified him that lie had been awarded the decoration of the Legion of Honor. MAKING A LONG HIKE WITH HIS BURRO Her Dignified Neighbor. My neighbor has a dignified hus band. My neighbor Is not at nil digni fied, anil wo have fallen Into the habit of doing things that nro not a bit dignified nnd that often verge on the ridiculous when we get "by ourselves'." I ran down to show her a new hat at an hour when I knew her husband would be out. and after tapping on the door stood waiting for her to open It. with my hat carefully adjusted on my head, my eyes crossed and my tongue out. Jlir husband" opened the door. Uxchungo. Arui.im It. II. otherwise c ui It. K Gardner, seventy eight years of age accompanied b ins shaggy 1ml burro, is making a "Jaunt" from Arizona to Washington. l. C In spite of his age. I'.ill has not n single white hair among his long mrls. Ho was In command of the Seventh cavalry with Custer, and Is a veteran of ninii campaign.-. CONDENSATIONS Sliver is tlm earliest currency men tioned In the scriptures. The Australian embargo on the ex portation of rubbit skins has been re moved, according to word received from Trade Commissioner Forrln. Kxperlineuts by government experts have shown that sugar beets can ho successfully grown in Ireland. Despite measures taken by tlio Chi nese government to stop the Importn poimds of opium were Imported tlons of tlio drug, It Is said that -MOOO through Dalden and Tslngtau
