Demolition of San Jacinto Memorial Hospital Ends Baytown Era
Wanda Orton recalls the implosion of the historic San Jacinto Memorial Hospital later renamed Houston Methodist San Jacinto, once a 100 bed community pillar born from HORC funding in 1948. The structure’s decline reflected safety concerns and neglect, ending a postwar Baytown landmark with deep local ties.
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Decker Drive
House of Healing
Baytown
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
Goose Creek
West Defoe
Lillie Duke
South Ashbel
West Pearce
Humble Oil & Refining Co
HORC
San Jacinto Memorial
Kilgore
Bob Matherne
T.W. Moore
Joe Reid
C.J. Fortinberry
Hugh Echols
J. Bryan Stratton
Theo Wilburn
Echols and
Fortinberry
W.E. Marshall
Garth Road
Methodist Hospital
Houston Methodist San Jacinto Hospital
Manhunt still on for teens alleged killer
Sun day reports a manhunt continues for a group of teens alleged to be responsible for a serious crime. The article details authorities' actions and resident concerns as the search extends across local streets and neighborhoods.
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Baytownsun.com
Smith
ExxonMobil
San Jac Hospital
Ulan
Letter to the Editor on Supreme Court nomination ethics
The writer accuses Republicans of obstruction over an Obama Supreme Court nominee and argues Democrats show selective memory about past tactics. Citing Biden in 1992 Schumer in 2007 and the Bork era, the piece defends caution against confirmation hearings and notes Sandra Day O’Connor and Meese as controversial Reagan picks.
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Dave McNeely
Obama
Supreme Court
Joe Biden
Fillmore
Johnson
Senate Judiciary Committee
H.W. Bush
Chuck Schumer
Bush
Ronald Reagan
Robert Bork
Afl-Cio
Bork
Sandra Day O'Connor
Reagan
Edwin Meese
Today in History Highlights Landmark Judicial Review Births and impeachments
On this date 1803 Marbury v Madison established judicial review of statutes. In 1868 the House impeached Andrew Johnson over Stanton dismissal, later acquitted. In 1938 DuPont sold the Dr West manual toothbrush, nylon bristle. Rabelais quote frames time and truth.
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Supreme Court
U.S. House of Representatives
Andrew Johnson
Edwin M. Stanton
Johnson
Senate
DuPont
Dr. West
Francois Rabelais
Sam Houston Jr and the Bagland Guards in Shiloh
A historic account traces Sam Houston Jr child of Margaret Lea Houston joining Ashbel Smiths Bagland Guards at Evergreen Plantation. The unit, including Anson Jones's sons, fought at Shiloh 1862 where Sam Jr was wounded and saved by a Bible given by his mother. He survived in a Union prison before returning home.
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Sam Houston Jr
Margaret Lea Houston
Sam Houston
San Jacinto
Houston
Cedar Point
Cedar Bayou
Chambers County
Sam Jr
Bastrop
Sam
United States Army
Evergreen Plantation
Ashbel Smith
Bagland Guards
Bngland Guards
Galveston
Bay
Bayland Guards
Republic of Texas
Anson Jones
Samuel E. Jones
Charles Elliot Jones
Republic
Texas
Tennessee
Shiloh
Charles Elliot
Battle of
Horseshoe Bend
Young Sam
General Houston
Margret
Margaret Houston
Margaret
Union
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