Galveston Hurricane 1900 Quotes

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If there were a Pulitzer for bleak irony, however, it would go to the News for its Saturday-morning report on one of the most important local stories of the year—the Galveston count of the 1900 U.S. census, which the newspaper had first announced on Friday. The news was excellent: Over the last decade of the nineteenth century, the city’s population had increased by 29.93 percent, the highest growth rate of any southern city counted so far.
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Erik Larson (Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History)
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Mama!” a little boy squealed. “Take me closer!
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Lauren Tarshis (I Survived the Galveston Hurricane, 1900 (I Survived #21))
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But he was fine keeping mostly to himself.
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Lauren Tarshis (I Survived the Galveston Hurricane, 1900 (I Survived #21))
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One must not panic or struggle when trying to get free from a rope …
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Lauren Tarshis (I Survived the Galveston Hurricane, 1900 (I Survived #21))