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By Hudson Old Eastern Camp County, 1948 – It wasn’t that business at Albert Hamilton’s syrup mill wasn’t what it...
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What makes your heart go out ? and the reason behind Harold Logan’s mission in his home town

What makes your heart go out ? and the reason behind Harold Logan’s mission in his home town

East Texas History Featured Mount Pleasant
  By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher Reprinted from the East Texas Journal April 1995 Edition Among the mysteries of paradise...
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Historian Traces Elvis to Mt. Pleasant performance in December, 1954

Historian Traces Elvis to Mt. Pleasant performance in December, 1954

East Texas History Entertainment Featured Mount Pleasant
Reissued story from East Texas Journal December, 2015. In a 1996 Journal interview tracked down in 2006 by a dogged...
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1854 news account describes family as ‘passionate, domineering and dangerous’

1854 news account describes family as ‘passionate, domineering and dangerous’

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HAGANSPORT – As the crow flies, this is the closest town to the place just downstream of the confluence of...
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At the Bynum place where Rita Durrum rides, Country life takes unconventional turn

At the Bynum place where Rita Durrum rides, Country life takes unconventional turn

Entertainment Featured Mount Pleasant
For a horse with mental issues, in the family of Essential Oil products is one of a molecular structure so...
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Horsemen Gather at cavalryman’s family’s reunion

Horsemen Gather at cavalryman’s family’s reunion

East Texas History Entertainment Featured Mount Pleasant
By Hudson old Journal publisher He was Jose Wales and John Wayne rolled into one, said Roger Mauzey,  a descendent...
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Radio patriarch’s ghost echoes through broadcast

Radio patriarch’s ghost echoes through broadcast

Business East Texas History Entertainment Featured Mount Pleasant
By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher Turn on, tune in, drop by. It’s not too late to get your name on...
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King family found momentary respite from war in 19th century Titus County

King family found momentary respite from war in 19th century Titus County

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John Henry King remembered the soldiers passing by his home at Boggy Creek in eastern Titus County on their way...
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Judge thanks city for fire protection deal

Judge thanks city for fire protection deal

Featured Mount Pleasant
Titus County Judge Brian Lee came to say thanks when the Mt. Pleasant City Council unanimously approved a 10-year agreement...
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P. D. Thornton, Sr

P. D. Thornton, Sr

East Texas History Featured
Special to the Journal Synopsis by Donna K. White from an interview with P. D. Thornton, Sr. in 1979. I...
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The last time the circus came to town

The last time the circus came to town

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From the archives February 2019 Kristin the Komet shot out of California, sailed four years through the U.S. Air Force,...
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1959 movie makers brought stars to Sulphur River scene

1959 movie makers brought stars to Sulphur River scene

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By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher   CLARKSVILLE – When movie director Vincente Minnelli got here, he went to the barbershop...
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Jodie King – Tuskegee educated cotton mill worker, ship builder, surveyor, bootlegger and gambler

Jodie King – Tuskegee educated cotton mill worker, ship builder, surveyor, bootlegger and gambler

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Special to the Journal Synopsis by Etta Ray Case from an interview with Jodie King in 1979   JODIE KING...
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Dellwood’s mineral spring’s lured bottling firm, resort

Dellwood’s mineral spring’s lured bottling firm, resort

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Some of the names are lost, like mists burned away in morning sun. Peterman, Wolfe . . . Others have...
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Industry-leading truckers turn challenge to opportunity

Industry-leading truckers turn challenge to opportunity

Business Featured
GILMER, TEXAS – The dealer who’d contracted to deliver 90 new trucks last year called for a lunch meeting to...
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