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Cookville business boom fueled five newspapers

Cookville business boom fueled five newspapers

East Texas History Featured
Reprinted from the East Texas Journal January 2019 Edition. COOKVILLE, TEXAS – With World War I in full swing, Earl...
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Newest commissioner cuts salary, trims expenses, questions everything at courthouse

Newest commissioner cuts salary, trims expenses, questions everything at courthouse

Featured Mount Pleasant
Reprinted from the East Texas Journal February 2014 Edition In 2012, Precinct 1 Commissioner Al Riddle challenged an incumbent with...
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Longhorn makes Nigerian polo player connection

Longhorn makes Nigerian polo player connection

Business Featured
WINFIELD, TEXAS – You’d think a Nigerian polo player would be able to find a trailer he liked closer to...
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Was Titus County-born Mac Wallace the second gunman in the JFK assassination?

Was Titus County-born Mac Wallace the second gunman in the JFK assassination?

East Texas History Featured
Reprinted from the May 2012 East Texas Journal By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher PITTSBURG, TEXAS– Her following of threads of...
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Daingerfield resident changed course of American history in 1964 election

Daingerfield resident changed course of American history in 1964 election

East Texas History Featured
Reprinted from the East Texas Journal July 2016 Edition. MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS – In the November 25, 1964 Mt. Pleasant...
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Steel company executive turns tide to LBJ at the unconventional Democratic convention of ’64

Steel company executive turns tide to LBJ at the unconventional Democratic convention of ’64

East Texas History Featured
Reprinted from the East Texas Journal June 2013 Edition. Ed’s note: An ex-Marine who got into Texas politics following World...
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Developer plans new view on Tankersley

Developer plans new view on Tankersley

Business Featured
MT. PLEASANT, Texas – A mother with two children in the military and a high school senior in a 700-horse...
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Moonshine provided escape from poverty for Titus County whisky runner on the Back Roads to Dallas

Moonshine provided escape from poverty for Titus County whisky runner on the Back Roads to Dallas

East Texas History Featured
Article reprinted from the East Texas Journal January, 2016 Edition. Back Roads to Dallas is now at the Mt. Pleasant...
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A million lights and carriage rides anchor Boots & Bells holiday season

A million lights and carriage rides anchor Boots & Bells holiday season

Entertainment Featured
When the Majestic Christmas Company tested them, strings of lights hanging every foot along every facet of the three layer-cake...
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Theories differ on strange geology at Jakes Creek

Theories differ on strange geology at Jakes Creek

East Texas History Featured
From the East Texas Journal August 2011 MONTICELLO, TEXAS – The thing had occupied his mind again, so Oscar Hill...
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Local homemakers develop world-class, creekside ceramics

Local homemakers develop world-class, creekside ceramics

East Texas History Features
Before Columbus, cutting edge Caddo homemakers here perfected ceramic dinnerware while the average European was still eating off wooden slabs....
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Fossil found on Sulphur emerges from dream

Fossil found on Sulphur emerges from dream

Bankhead Featured
By Jolene Reed special to the Journal Jolene Reed Free-lance Writer SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas – Twenty-one years ago, Hampton House...
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West Side woman’s got it figured out

West Side woman’s got it figured out

East Texas History Featured
By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher Time was, Betty Smith worked in cotton fields to make money for school clothes. Jerry...
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Councilman unloads at City Hall

Councilman unloads at City Hall

Featured Mount Pleasant
You young people are free to skip this story and go to the city of Mt. Pleasant on You Tube,...
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Rebel lived life on his terms

Rebel lived life on his terms

Featured Mount Pleasant
At the funeral, they said Dr. Clint Davis said there were lots of stories about Glenn Justiss, including some that...
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