Word: galveston
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...parochial bystander to name you a newspaper in Galveston, St. Louis, Butte, Jacksonville or either Portland. His face will go blank. Ask him to name you one in Omaha and out will buzz: "The Bee." One of the oldest newspapers west of the Mississippi, the Bee has stung itself into the U. S. folk-consciousness not only by its bumbling name but by appropriate industry. That its industry might reap greater rewards, it last week (in the person of Publisher Nelson B. Updike) bought out and absorbed its chief competitor, the Omaha Daily News, 28-year-old member...
...Holiness has created a 16th U. S. archdiocese from the diocese of San Antonio* This new province includes the diocese of Galveston, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Oklahoma, and a new one of Amarillo...
...gunboat Galveston steamed through the Panama Canal last week turned northward and cast anchor in the Nicaraguan harbor of Bluefields. Simultaneously the U. S. gunboat Tulsa anchored off Corinto on the opposite (Pacific) coast of Nicaragua. Thus U. S. cannon faced each other across the 200 mile extreme width of a nation with which the U. S. is at peace. Several hundred U. S. marines were landed with fighting equipment at Bluefields...
...whole world's balage), for a value of about $2,000,000,000. They knew too that last year's average cotton price was 24.8c a pound, that present prices average less than 18c a pound at U. S. cotton markets (Manhattan, New Orleans, Galveston, Mobile, Savannah, Norfolk, Augusta, Memphis, Houston, Little Rock, Dallas, Montgomery, Ft. Worth), that at Liverpool, to which Europe looks, prices are little higher. Then, too, ecto-blasts of monopoly bounders fluttered over the aborning Institute. The manufacturers felt obligated to make a gesture toward the growers. They invited them to Institute membership...
...Chilean mob. The Chilean member of the Commission, Señor Augustin R. Edwards, refused to attend its last session. The Chilean police refused to open the Commission hall. General Lassiter made use of a nearby office. Finally he embarked with his staff aboard the U. S. battleship Galveston, prepared to sail...