Houston’s 3-newspaper era

By Willis Webb

 

Since I spent more than half my 70-plus years in the Texas Gulf Coast area, in or near Houston, I maintain my readership in the Houston Chronicle. My first two years of college were spent in Huntsville, less than two hours north of the metropolis, then the final two in Houston. I worked there a couple of years before my rural raising sparked a yen to return to those climes. Being drawn back to my country raising derailed my goal to be the world’s greatest sportswriter onto the rail line “local” or “doodlebug” trains through small towns and weekly papers. All aboard for Teague, Rosenberg, Cleveland, Conroe, Lockhart, Rosenberg (again), Missouri City and Jasper. So, anyone penning historic notes about those early times or those communities grabs my attention.
 
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