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Horsemen Gather at cavalryman’s family’s reunion

Horsemen Gather at cavalryman’s family’s reunion

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By Hudson old Journal publisher John Riley Ellis He was Jose Wales and John Wayne rolled into one, said Roger...
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Winston Ward radio patriarch’s ghost echoes through broadcast

Winston Ward radio patriarch’s ghost echoes through broadcast

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

John Henry 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

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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

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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 Home From the Hill movie makers brought stars to Sulphur River scene

1959 Home From the Hill movie makers brought stars to Sulphur River scene

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Home From the Hill By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher CLARKSVILLE, TEXAS – When movie director Vincente Minnelli got here, he...
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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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Custom Commodities Industry-leading truckers turn challenge to opportunity

Custom Commodities Industry-leading truckers turn challenge to opportunity

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GILMER, TEXAS – The dealer who’d contracted to deliver 90 new trucks last year called for a lunch meeting to...
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John Biggers fabled muralist’s work found in Texas storeroom

John Biggers fabled muralist’s work found in Texas storeroom

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An Austrian Jew fleeing the Holocaust in 1938 wound up teaching art in a black trade school in North Carolina....
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Williams House Museum Hand-picked venue scores a slice of Matteson legacy

Williams House Museum 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 Cole Barker Scholarship

First recipient makes most of Cole Barker 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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Nett’s Restaurant closing changes community rhythm

Nett’s Restaurant 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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Luminant turn out the lights, the mining’s over

Luminant turn out the lights, the mining’s over

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Luminant Reprinted from January 2018 East Texas Journal MONTICELLO, TX – Okay, show’s over. Dallas-based Luminant turned out the lights...
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