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From Cooper’s Chapel to the Front Lines: The World War II Journey of Corporal James Anderson

From Cooper’s Chapel to the Front Lines: The World War II Journey of Corporal James Anderson

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Above Photo: Left to right, James, Pauline, Lloyd, Berniece Randi Anderson, About 1926. Photo from The Story of Corporal James...
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Gidget the Feral Hog Finds a Home in Mt. Pleasant

Gidget the Feral Hog Finds a Home in Mt. Pleasant

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Above Photo: Tonya Freeman with Gidget, a feral hog she’s raising on a baby’s bottle. January 1998 ETJ Story Revised...
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Phone book delivery ends with ambulance ride

Phone book delivery ends with ambulance ride

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Above Photo: NUMBER PLEASE-soon you will be able to call anyone in the- greater Titus, Camp, Franklin, Morris counties area....
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Charlie Jack and the Omaha Museum Preserve East Texas History

Charlie Jack and the Omaha Museum Preserve East Texas History

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Charlie Jack Keeps Omaha's History Alive at the Museum From the East Texas Journal, July 2022 By Hudson Old OMAHA,...
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Hungarian Rotary Exchange Student Offers East Texans a Lesson in Freedom

Hungarian Rotary Exchange Student Offers East Texans a Lesson in Freedom

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Above Photo: Balazs "Bali" Kiss, a Rotary exchange student from Hungary, spent the 1994–95 school year in Mt. Vernon, experiencing...
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Mt. Pleasant Couple Followed Their Faith to Post-Communist Albania

Mt. Pleasant Couple Followed Their Faith to Post-Communist Albania

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Above Photo: Mike and Ellen Holman serve as missionaries in a God-forsaken land.     From East Texas Journal, February...
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Mechanical Phonographs Brought Music Home

Mechanical Phonographs Brought Music Home

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Above Photo: David Hoover shows some of his turn-of-the-century mechanical phonographs. They work.   Originally published in The East Texas...
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Titus County prohibition history: The Wet and Dry Battles of the 1930s

Titus County prohibition history: The Wet and Dry Battles of the 1930s

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Titus County prohibition history: Prohibition Politics in Titus County In the late 1930s, the fight over alcohol in Mount Pleasant...
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Ron Barker’s photos bring home the bacon

Ron Barker’s photos bring home the bacon

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Above Photo: I’ve had two photo teachers, one is Jim Cammack, a gypsy photojournalist. The other is Ron Barker, a...
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Ben Carr

Ben Carr

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Special to the Journal Synopsis by Donna K. White from an interview with Ben Carr 1979. I had two visits...
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Eagles earn passage to best two out of three series to advance to NJCAA World Series

Eagles earn passage to best two out of three series to advance to NJCAA World Series

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Above Photo: Veterans of the NTCC team that in 1996 won the NJCAA World Series Championship under Coach Ty Harrington...
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Hot links, global warming link considered

Hot links, global warming link considered

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Above Photo: Hot links are available throughout the Geezerplex. Check your yellow pages or just ask at the gas station....
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Roots of cultural ties splinter into Pittsburg Community

Roots of cultural ties splinter into Pittsburg Community

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Above Photo: Robert Mitchell and Roosevelt Fleming are in-laws who have lived together since Robert’s daughter married Rose 66 years...
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Dallas attorney buys ’80 acres of Prozac’ of Franklin County land

Dallas attorney buys ’80 acres of Prozac’ of Franklin County land

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Above Photo: Since buying a tract of Franklin County land with an old farmhouse, David Weatherbie's research has introduced him...
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Line-up changes fuel team’s climb to 1966 conference crown

Line-up changes fuel team’s climb to 1966 conference crown

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Ernie McAnally named to Paris Hall of Fame Above Photo: Ernie McAnally, center, is congratulated after driving in the winning...
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