Baytown History Quiz Poses Ten Local Questions
A Baytown Sun column lists ten local history trivia items about Ashbel Smith, Marie Houston area schools, and civic figures. It notes answers include condensed milk founder, Goose Creek oil wealth, first female trustees Edna Gray and Velma Ansley, Tamp Vernon Hardeway, and Lee College leadership, with details on fire stations and school name origins. The piece closes with contact for editor Wanda Orton.
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Ashbel Smith
Anna Allen Wright
Goose Creek Consolidated Independent
Smith
Goose Creek
Edna Gray
Velma Ansley
Baytown
Tamp
Vernon Hardeway
Pelly
Republic of Texas
David G. Burnet
Wooster
Sam Houston
Mirabeau Lamar
Anson Jones
Jessie Lee Pumphrey
Jessie
de Zavala
Old Baytown
Nazro
South Main
Minnesota
Sam Bramlett
Lee College Board of Regents
Gccisd
Bramlett
Therese Norton Ruff
Lee
Carmel Norton
Sterling Stars
Claire Bays
Bays
Cowgill bringing the D to Barbers Hill
Baytown Sun weekly top read highlights include Cowgill's defense push at Barbers Hill and other stories such as a man stopped with an alleged explosive device and a grandson arrested in a shooting. The list also features local education, crime, and civic items spanning March dates and January recalls.
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Baytownsun.com
Cowgill
Barbers Hill
Goose Creek
Chase
Baytown
MercyGate Church
Chaparral
Letters to the Editor Arresting Developments
Alan Hudgins of Baytown applauds Officer Galindo and officers for arresting five out-of-towners aged 20 to 24 for reckless driving and street racing on Highway 146 last Friday near midnight. He reports weekly Friday noise and speed at the intersection from 5:30 p.m. onward and calls for extra charges under noise and muffler laws, urging patrols and questioning the Legal Street Racing event.
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Galindo
BPD
Highway 146
BPR
Baytown
Alan Hudgins
Baytown Flooded by Political Tide in Runoff Call
A Baytown reader laments a flood of political controversy surrounding the local race. The letter praises Rep. Wayne Smith for conservative credentials, cites past battles with rivals, and urges voters to turnout for the runoff, framing the choice as between Smith and Cain. The writer questions support for Ted Cruz and Donald Trump in the national context.
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Baytown
Texas
Strauss
Ted Cruz
U.S
Abbott
Patrick
Paxton
Rabin
Wayne Smith
Cain
Donald
David Duke
Trump
Smith
Cyrus B. Fletcher
Romney urges GOP to back anyone but Donald Trump
Mitt Romney urges Republicans to support any of three remaining candidates over Donald Trump. He warns Trump would push a 35 percent tariff and trigger a trade war, raise prices, and wreck the economy. Romney also criticizes Trump on business record, foreign policy, and honesty while advocating for Cruz, Rubio, or Kasich. Lindsey Graham weighs Cruz over Trump, preferring Rubio or Kasich.
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Mitt Romney
GOP
Obama
Donald Trump
Trump
America
Trump Airlines
Trump University
Trump Magazine
Trump Vodka
Trump Steaks
Trump Mortgage
ISIS
Syr
White House
Romney
Texas
U.S
Ted Cruz
Florida
Marco Rubio
Ohio
John Kasich
South Carolina
Lindsey Graham
Cruz
Graham
Senate
House
Rubio
Kasich
Ted
Today in History highlights 1862 to 1964 and Tim Cook
Key moments span Hampton Roads naval clash in 1862 and New Deal beginnings in 1933. WWII Tokyo firebombing begins in 1945, Sullivan libel standard set in 1964. Apple Watch reveal by Tim Cook a year ago. Thought by David Broder cautions presidential ascent.
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Monitor
Virginia
Merrimac
Hampton Roads
Congress
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tokyo
U.S. Supreme Court
New York Times Co
Sullivan
Cials
Apple
Tim Cook
Apple Watch
David Broder
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Baytownsun
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Janie Gray
David Bloom
Brenda Burr
April Jones
Aur
Jame Gray
Jim Finley
Jay Eshbach
M. A. Bengtson
Mike Wilson
Newsroom
Sun
Sunnewsi
Assad
Iraq
New Jersey
United States
Free World
Dave McNeely
Davemcneely
Flagmail.com
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