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Hand-picked venue scores a slice of Matteson legacy

Hand-picked venue scores a slice of Matteson legacy

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DeKalb, Texas -- There’s a mastodon vertebra found by a man from Naples next to the hand-cranked Japanese air raid...
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First recipient makes most of scholarship

First recipient makes most of scholarship

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Photo above, Sue Barker, left, with APL’s Taylor Muller and Mt. Vernon graduate Rhealyn Reagan, a recipient of the Cole...
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Café closing changes community rhythm

Café closing changes community rhythm

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NAPLES, TEXAS - Opening at 6 a.m., Nett’s Restaurant was a six-day-a-week operation, a part of the rhythm of the...
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Turn out the lights, the mining’s over

Turn out the lights, the mining’s over

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Reprinted from January 2018 East Texas Journal MONTICELLO, TX – Okay, show’s over. Dallas-based Luminant’s turned out the lights on...
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There’s more than another rodeo in the plan

There’s more than another rodeo in the plan

Featured Mount Pleasant
Ticket sales registered somewhere between 4,500 and 5,000 at the 57th annual rodeo that almost wasn’t. “In the summer of...
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1st Street Longhorns anchor Scenic Spring Cattle Drive

1st Street Longhorns anchor Scenic Spring Cattle Drive

Featured Mount Pleasant
Reprinted from the March 2019 East Texas Journal Edition When the vet couldn't save his bull, Longhorn market conditions minimized...
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Worker program reels in mobile homeless

Worker program reels in mobile homeless

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Paired with a blonde in their quest for golf courses near towns with a softball league, before they rode off...
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Show Booked at Whatley

Show Booked at Whatley

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If the guy who toured with Mouse and the Trapps in the 60’s playing bass behind Debbie Porter’s dulcimer with...
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Pittsburg soap shocker rocks consumer market

Pittsburg soap shocker rocks consumer market

Featured Pittsburg
By HUDSON OLD Famous Photographer Pittsburg, Texas – Soap store. Guy with natural rolling slabs of useful shoulders under the...
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Soldier with music brought a song to the war

Soldier with music brought a song to the war

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In the relative comfort of the second floor of a school building still standing in Tientsin, China, one day after...
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Archived CCC photo pegs location of Depression-era work camp on Edwards

Archived CCC photo pegs location of Depression-era work camp on Edwards

East Texas History Featured Uncategorized
Reprinted from the East Texas Journal May 2019 Edition. Ed’s note: Sam Ferguson researched and compiled 1930’s news records for...
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Texans search English Abbey for beekeeper

Texans search English Abbey for beekeeper

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Reprinted from the East Texas Journal August 2017 Edition By RON COUCH Special to the Journal A book about bees...
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Salvage milks the most from the work of a forgotten builder

Salvage milks the most from the work of a forgotten builder

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Reprinted from the East Texas Journal May 2020 Edition BRIDGES CHAPEL, TEXAS -- When Lisa Garrison-Toland was a girl, “Grandma”...
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Flora & fauna on Daphne Prairie draw diverse life forms to Franklin County

Flora & fauna on Daphne Prairie draw diverse life forms to Franklin County

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Reprinted from the East Texas Journal June 2016 Edition By HUDSON OLD East Texas Journal DAPHNE PRAIRIE – An artist,...
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Dietary atrocities endured aboard war’s busiest carrier

Dietary atrocities endured aboard war’s busiest carrier

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Reprinted from the East Texas Journal May 2016 edition. The development of powdered milk and dehydrated potatoes were considered wartime...
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