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Springfield's Bishop Thomas Mary O'Leary authorized this unusual gesture of Catholic friendship for Russia. Of the 145 U.S. Catholic Bishops three others have endorsed this campaign: Chicago's Auxiliary Bishop Bernard J. Sheil, Galveston's Bishop Christopher E. Byrne, and St. Louis' aging, popular Archbishop John J. Glennon...
...Sight. Six miles out from Galveston, in the Gulf of Mexico, a tugboat encountered a horse, swimming...
DONALD C. BOYCE Galveston...
...Army engineer in Galveston last week said that "practically unlimited" amounts of oil and oil products can be shipped on the inland waterways- if enough barges and tugs can be obtained...
...rival of New Orleans), which was blown off the map in 1886. In 1893, while dwellers on the shore of Barataria Bay south of New Orleans were dancing to celebrate the end of a storm, mountainous waves suddenly swept over, wiped out town and townspeople in 15 minutes. At Galveston, where in 1900 a hurricane and tidal wave killed 6,000, sandbags were piled before doorways, windows boarded up. Long before the Weather Bureau released its dry warning that the storm was at hand, launches chugged inland over the bayous, dugouts paddled swiftly toward settlements, country storekeepers moved their stock...