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Soldier Eddie Hammond with music brought a song to the war

Soldier Eddie Hammond 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

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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 Garrison

Salvage milks the most from the work of a forgotten builder Garrison

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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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Daphne Prairie Reprinted from the East Texas Journal June 2016 Edition By HUDSON OLD East Texas Journal DAPHNE PRAIRIE –...
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Dietary atrocities endured aboard carrier USS Natoma Bay

Dietary atrocities endured aboard carrier USS Natoma Bay

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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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Cookville business boom fueled five newspapers

Cookville business boom fueled five newspapers

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

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

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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 Trailers makes Nigerian polo player connection

Longhorn Trailers makes Nigerian polo player connection

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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 Malcolm Wallace the second gunman in the JFK assassination?

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

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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 Marvin Watson changed course of American history in 1964 election

Daingerfield resident Marvin Watson 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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Lone Star Steel Company executive turns tide to LBJ at the unconventional Democratic convention of ’64

Lone Star Steel Company executive turns tide to LBJ at the unconventional Democratic convention of ’64

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Lone Star Steel Reprinted from the East Texas Journal June 2013 Edition. Ed’s note: An ex-Marine who got into Texas...
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Anderson Towne Crossing Developer plans new view on Tankersley

Anderson Towne Crossing Developer plans new view on Tankersley

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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

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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

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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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