THE NORTH" PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
Where Disabled Veterans Learn Agriculture
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These Women Raise Their Own Vegetables
One of the buildings (horticulture) of tliu college of ngrlculture, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., whero
flic federal board for vociitlotml education linH placoil dlsnbled world war veterans who desire training In agrlcufture.
America Gets Five German Warships
Women of Washington Heights, New York, have formed u raising nnd lowering association, to raise vegetables
end lower grocery bills. Photograph shows some at work near their homes at 181st street and Bennett avenuo.
Pilgrim Fathers Leave for America Again
The flvo Germnn u'nrshlns allocated to the United Stntes arrived In New York harbor tho other day. After
being exhibited and studied, they will be destroyed. Tho photograph shows tho battleship Ostfrlesland towing tho
cruiser Frankfort.
Wounded Soldiers Meet Coolidge I HEADS forestry school
The "Pilgrim Fathers" leaving for America in the Mayflower centennial at Southampton, England.
Off for Europe in 30-Foot Sailboat
Gov. Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, shaking bunds with wounded sol
tilers lu Boston, while they congratulate him on tils nomination by the Re
publicans for tho vice presidency.
Ten Thousand at Canary's Funeral
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Franklin Moon, the new dean of tho
New York State College of Forestry
at Syracuse, advanced to bend tho
nation's biggest forestry school after,
Hervlco ns its professor of forest en-,
glneerlng since 1012. A Yale forest
school graduate, then United Stntes
federal forest service representative In.
Kentucky, he later boenmo forester.
for the Hudson river forest reservn-,
tlon, the nucleus of what is now tho
interstate Palisades park.
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MISS DORA PALKIN
The Tvnhoon. with Casey Baldwin and Wnllnce Nutting on board, starting
out from Haddock. Canada, for Co'wes, England. The boat Is only a 30-footer
nnd tho men expect to mako the trip In 22 days.
First American Ship to Bremen
Ten thousand residents of Newark, N. J., turned out to witness the
.Ktrangest funeral procession over held In that, or possibly any other city of
ithe country. "Jlmmle," n canary pet of Kinllto Ilussomanno, a Newark cob
bler, was being burled with honors. Tliero was u band that played tho funeral
dirge, a whlto hcarso, sllk-llned collln and carriages for tho mourners.
"IlmmloV funeral cost Uussotnnnno $200, but tho cobbler said It was the
jltut'uo could do for his latc-lniuonted pet, and he considered tho money well
iient
Miss Dora Palkln, a native of Con-.
nectlcut, now practicing law in Wash
ington, has gained the distinction of
being tho youngest woman admitted
to practice in tho United States Su
premo court. Slio graduated from n
Washington law school in 1010, o?d
though only twenty-four years old
now, she served during the wnr on tho
legal advisory council which rendered
ndvlce to hundreds of draft mea.
Tho U. S. S. Susquehanna, which sailed from New York with 1,800 pas
sengers for Bremen and Danzig, tho first passenger liner to sail under tho
American flag to tlieso ports, and the ttrst ship of tho United Stntes MnU
Steamship company to be placed In commission.
Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter
of King Ferdinand and Queen Mury of
Houmnnln, whose engagement to
Prince George of Sparta, hns been reported.
FLYING TO AUSTRALIA
Lieutenant lllnkley. formerly of tlm
Hrltlsh air forces, who Is attempting
to fly alone from Knglnnd to Australia,
via Paris. Rome nnd Kgypt. He uses
a small airplane with an engine of
only 85 horsepower.
Heathen Used to Heat
"What reason did Blnnk give for r.
fusing to contrlbuto to foreign mis
sions?" "Said wo ought to concen
trate our efforts on saving sinners,
right hero nt home, becnuso If th,
tlpnnlu of tbtfl rnuntrv nron't inui u,
i 1 - w i . v. unj
going to bo a much greater change of!
heathen." Boston Transcript
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