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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 2019
Page
4
Dr Steve Showalter of Lee College argues Prop 10 should pass to allow retired police dogs to be adopted or rehomed by handlers or rescue groups, framing the measure within Texas Reconstruction history and constitutional limits while urging a yes vote.
The Sun hosts a contest honoring ExxonMobil's 100th anniversary in Baytown inviting readers to write their favorite memory connected to Humble, Exxon, or ExxonMobil. Winners earned one share of ExxonMobil stock in their name and the page presents selected essays from entrants.
Evelyn Gill Hilton recalls growing up in Baytown near the Humble Refinery now Exxon. She details her father Edmond Gill and his twin Thomas, their 1911 birth, seven children, and enduring loyalty through human years of hardship. The Humble Bee magazine, community building, scholarships, stock matching, and yearly picnics anchored family life around the plant.
Ronald Moyers recalls a nighttime rabbit hunt in Cut In Shoot, Texas, with headlamp and a .22, where a gray spectral figure in a tree drew closer then pursued him. He fled through barbed wire and briars, tripping, while the haunted encounter ended with the ghost taunting him as he tied his shoe.
On this date events include 1864 Nevada becoming the 36th state via Lincoln's proclamation. 1926 Houdini dies in Detroit from gangrene and peritonitis after a ruptured appendix. 1941 Mount Rushmore National Memorial work completed in South Dakota after a long construction.
A U S Marine reservist Lee Harvey Oswald appeared at the U S Embassy in Moscow to declare he renounces his American citizenship. The note was part of a historic set of events listed for Today in History.
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