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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 2017
Page
4
Top read: Mont Belvieu man nabbed in a Baytown bank robbery. The item highlights the arrest details, the involved parties, and the bank location, reflecting the week’s most viewed Baytown Sun coverage.
A letter criticizes Donald Trump for signing edicts that hurt animals and notes the removal of the APHIS inspection site, which monitors roughly 9,000 animal handling facilities. The author argues this weakens the Animal Welfare Act and calls for court action to counter the policy.
An opinion piece criticizes the current political climate for prioritizing spin over truth and public good. It decries showmanship and celebrity culture as shaping leadership, with outcomes and honesty dismissed in favor of political advantage.
Ashbel Smith served as Texas envoy to England living in London. He met Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, attended balls at Buckingham Palace, and joined many royal events. At the 1851 Great Exhibition he networked with Dickens, Tennyson, Greeley, and Gail Borden, judging exhibits and promoting meat biscuits.
The piece chronicles Huguette Clark born 1906 in Paris, daughter of W A Clark, heiress to a copper fortune. After a lavish early life and a controversial marriage to William Gower that ended in divorce, she withdrew from life, becoming inaccessible and living decades in Manhattan hospitals with three luxury homes later died 2011 at 104.
On this date 1862 the Battle of Roanoke Island ended in Union victory. In 1910 the Boy Scouts of America were incorporated. In 1922 Harding had a White House radio installed. In 1968 three students were killed in Orangeburg during civil rights protests. In 1996 Clinton signed telecom reform at the Library of Congress. Anna Nicole Smith died in 2006 at 39. Thought for Today by Lorraine Hansberry.
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