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Radio patriarch’s ghost echoes through broadcast

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

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

East Texas History Featured
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

East Texas History Featured
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

Entertainment Featured
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 movie makers brought stars to Sulphur River scene

1959 movie makers brought stars to Sulphur River scene

East Texas History Featured
By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher   CLARKSVILLE – When movie director Vincente Minnelli got here, he went to the barbershop...
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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

East Texas History Featured
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

East Texas History Featured
Some of the names are lost, like mists burned away in morning sun. Peterman, Wolfe . . . Others have...
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Industry-leading truckers turn challenge to opportunity

Industry-leading truckers turn challenge to opportunity

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

Fabled muralist’s work found in storeroom

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

Hand-picked venue scores a slice of Matteson legacy

Entertainment Featured
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

Featured Features
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

Featured Food
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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