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* THE JUNIOR HISTORIAN *
VOL. XVI, No. 4 AUSTIN, TEXAS JANUARY, 1956THE HOUSTON POST
by WANDA WHEELER
Lamar High School, HoustonO N the beautiful new building
that now houses the Houston
Paost these words quoted from
the United States Declaration of In-
dependence are engraved: "Let Facts
Be Submitted to a Candid World."
What could be more appropriate for the
real grandfather of Texas newspapers?
By tracing the family tree back to
its roots, the Post can claim for its
ancestor the famous old Telegraph and
Texas Register. Gail and Thomas Bor-
den organized that paper at San Felipe
in 1835. The newspaper immediately
became the official organ of Texas's
patriotic cause. When Sam Houston re-
treated west, his little army passed
through San Felipe. There the Bordens
loaded their presses onto an ox wagon
and moved on to Harrisburg.
There was an edition on the press in
Harrisburg on April 14, 1836, when
Santa Anna's troops approached. The
Bordens dumped the presses into Buffa-
lo Bayou and escaped to Galveston,
where President David G. Burnet andhis cabinet were in extraordinary ses-
sion. Less than a week later Sam Hous-
ton's ragged army had routed Santa
Anna's forces at San Jacinto; so the
Bordens fished their presses out of the
bayou and set up shop again at Colum-
bia. It was about a year later that the
Telegraph and Texas Register found-
ers loaded their little plant on the
steampship Yellow Stone and plied the
Gulf waters . to Houston via Velasco,
Clappers Bar, and Lynchburg. They
again unloaded and set up for a long
stay in the old Larendon Building at
IIII Congress Avenue. On May 2,
1837, the first Houston edition of the
Telegraph and Texas Register hit the
streets.
For the next thirty-six years the
Telegraph was Texas's most important
newspaper. In 1873 publication was
suspended when one Nelson Davis
foreclosed on a $2,587 debt. The next
year A. C. Gray revived the paper
but he, too, lost it three years later.
At that time the assets were taken overArchitect drawing of the new Houston Post building.
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