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Gordon Baxter (December 25, 1923 – June 11, 2005), nicknamed Bax, was a well-known Texas radio personality, an author of books and a columnist for newspapers and magazines. He was a lifelong resident of Southeast Texas, having grown up in Port Arthur where he was born.
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The Montgomery County Bulletin or simply The Bulletin was a free alternative weekly newspaper distributed in Montgomery County, Texas; a suburban county north of Houston. It claimed a circulation of 20,000 copies before being forced out of business in 2008 due to evidence of massive plagiarism .
On April 17, 2013, an explosion and fire at ExxonMobil's Beaumont, Texas refinery injured at least 12 people and killed two. [20] The incident was caused by a hydrotreater heat exchanger, releasing hydrocarbons that ignited. Following the event, multiple negligence-based personal injury lawsuits were filed.
History of the Texas Press and the Texas Press Association (Dallas: Harben-Spotts, 1929) Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Newspapers and Radio", Texas: A Guide to the Lone Star State, American Guide Series, New York: Hastings House, pp. 120– 124, hdl:2027/mdp.39015002677667 – via HathiTrust; Works Progress Administration (1941).
In 1959, publisher Tom Whitehead Sr. was president of the Texas Press Association. The Brenham Banner Press moved to its current location in 1984 after a period of steady growth; they had occupied their previous location since 1900. [4] The paper is currently owned by Hartman Newspapers, LP, and Derek Hall is the current publisher. [5]
An X-ray scan of the cheese revealed “anomalies,” which upon further inspection turned out to be 17.8 pounds of cocaine concealed inside the wheels, Customs and Border Protection said in a ...
Spindletop was the largest gusher the world had seen and catapulted Beaumont into an oil-fueled boomtown. Beaumont's population of 10,000 tripled in 3 months and eventually rose to 50,000. [9] Speculation led land prices to increase rapidly. By the end of 1902, more than 500 companies had been formed and 285 wells were in operation. [3]