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Joe Dalby Motors

Joe Dalby Motors

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Joe Dalby Motors was built in 1946 at 601 West 16th Street and Mulberry Street, where Huey's Coffee is now....
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Local heritage displayed at former depot

Local heritage displayed at former depot

Featured Pittsburg
From East Texas Journal, September 1992 By Vernon C. Holcomb, Special to the Journal Pittsburg, Texas – The Lonesome wail...
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Crystal Ice Plant

Crystal Ice Plant

Featured Mount Pleasant
Burnett's Crystal Ice Plant was built in 1939 on the Southwest corner of North Madison Ave. and 5th Street where...
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Gooch Springs treasure unearthed

Gooch Springs treasure unearthed

East Texas History Featured
From East Texas Journal, July 1992 A SILVER PIECE of eight was the first link amateur archeologist and Baptist minister...
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Football paved the way for 1950’s MP team mates

Football paved the way for 1950’s MP team mates

Featured Mount Pleasant
one of two Tangerine Bowl championship plaques Billy collected playing for East Texas State.
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Emcee puts his Bo Rester spin on Chamber Banquet

Emcee puts his Bo Rester spin on Chamber Banquet

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“We’ll write what we want her to say, but I want you to put the Bo Rester spin on it,”...
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Laura McCoy’s tour from Budapest to Berlin

Laura McCoy’s tour from Budapest to Berlin

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Note: Photos from this tour have been edited using only the tools found on an i-phone. Capturing lines of classic...
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Native Texas Tourist, Tom Sloan MD.

Native Texas Tourist, Tom Sloan MD.

East Texas History Featured
Epilogue          
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One-time lawman made last-ditchattempt to escape electric chair

One-time lawman made last-ditchattempt to escape electric chair

East Texas History Featured
Within a month of the September 24, 1923 murder of Ottis Ballard, one-time Titus County Sunday school teacher and lawman...
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Coming July 4th – Fireworks – The Moving Wall – Talco Historical Museum Photos

Coming July 4th – Fireworks – The Moving Wall – Talco Historical Museum Photos

Entertainment Featured
Talco Texas- Talco Volunteer Fire department will be having their anual 4th of July Independence Day Fireworks Show, at the...
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Homegrown opera star booked for East Texas return

Homegrown opera star booked for East Texas return

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MARSHALL, Texas – Beverly Jane Peatross, who took her middle name with her when she left Texas for California, is...
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Flower power fuels repurposed 70’s majorette

Flower power fuels repurposed 70’s majorette

East Texas History Featured
By HUDSON OLDJournal Publisher Opening with a halftime show featuring the twirling and dancing majorette line leading the MP Going...
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War brought munitions plant to lake shore

War brought munitions plant to lake shore

East Texas History Featured
MARSHALL – The last time Russian agents were in town – that we know of – began sometime after December...
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Pioneer reels in Southern Belle

Pioneer reels in Southern Belle

East Texas History Featured
By Hudson OldJournal Publisher As if her birth affected the cosmos, stars poured like rain from the sky the night...
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Mt. Pleasant & Titus County History Featuring Melvin Bridges

Mt. Pleasant & Titus County History Featuring Melvin Bridges

East Texas History Featured
Special to the Journal Synopsis by Donna K. White from an interview with Melvin Francis Bridges in 1979 I visited...
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