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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strenuous athlete, hunter and fisherman is Father Griffin, first U. S. volunteer to this diocese. He received an elementary education in the Parochial schools of Manhattan, then went to St. Anthony's Apostolic School, San Antonio, Tex., conducted by the Oblates. There he played baseball and basketball, led a football combination famed in the Southwest as "The Four Magicians." Summers he spent with the Oblate students and Priests at Fort Lavaca...
...San Francisco. William or Jake Fleagle (alias Holden), 35, 5 ft. 11 in., well-dressed professional gambler, for a train robbery at Martinez and a bank robbery at Lamar, Col., in which four men were killed. Reward: $17,000. Warning: "Desperate...
While the St. Louis Robin soared 420 hours and the Bremen plowed a trans-Atlantic furrow in record time, a ponderous, unspectacular freight engine-No. 4113 of the St. Louis & San Francisco ("Frisco") R. R.-chuffed back and forth between Birmingham, Ala., and Kansas City, Mo., establishing a railroad record: for continuous non-refiring operation of a locomotive. On the afternoon of July 19, No. 4113 was fired, coupled to a 55-freight-car train, driven out of the Kansas City yards to break the record of 3,500 miles set by the Great Northern...
...Prohibition is a noble experiment, then the San Francisco fire and the Galveston flood also should be listed among the noble experiments of our national history...
...Brookline, Mass.; women's doubles, Edith Cross & Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper of California. National junior (at Culver, Ind.)-Singles, Keith Gledhill of Santa Barbara, Cal.; doubles, Gledhill & Ellsworth Vines of Pasadena. National boys'-Singles, Jay Cohn of Santa Monica, Cal.; doubles, Cohn & C. R. Hunt of San Francisco...