Chancellor Edwards 1901-1983
May 16, 2025
Oil strike turns Talco community into wide-open boom town
May 14, 2025
Ripley Townsite Company, Titus County, Texas
May 9, 2025
Polish teen survives Nazi labor camp
May 7, 2025
Mount Pleasant Oil Mill
May 2, 2025
One-time Wells Fargo driver Spearman recalled grandmother’s tale of Civil War Georgia
April 30, 2025
Piggly Wiggly, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
April 25, 2025
Bootstrap manufacturing boomed in rural Titus County community
April 23, 2025
O. C. Falls Blacksmith Shop
Rebel lived life on his terms
April 16, 2025
Wadel-Connally Hardware Company
April 11, 2025
Cattleman recalled German POW camp
April 9, 2025
Hogue Pottery
April 4, 2025
There’s No Business, Like Show Business
April 3, 2025
Town gears up for arrival of the #819 Cotton Belt Star
April 2, 2025
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Photo above, driver on the wagon is Rufus Garland "Rufe" McClinton, at right of him is Chancellor Edwards in...
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From East Texas Journal, February 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Talco, Texas - The last oil boom in Texas...
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By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal Ripley Townsite Company had filed its charter in Austin, Texas July 26,...
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From East Texas Journal, April 1996 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher A Polish girl who survived the Holocaust concentration camps,...
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Mount Pleasant Oil Mill By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal "The $35,000 necessary to build the Mount Pleasant...
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From East Texas Journal, February 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher A hundred and thirty-one years back, less a few...
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By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal Piggly Wiggly – The last Piggly Wiggly in Mt. Pleasant was built...
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Above photo, Cookville's Steve Adkison shoes "Dunny," for Gary Maples. Industries in the rural Titus County Community of Cookville used...
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The town’s last blacksmith drove a new Buick, had a summer weekend home on Glass Club Lake and the first...
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From East Texas Journal, December 1999 By HUDSON OLD, Journal Publisher PROLOGUE “You really voted for him?” Glenn Justiss...
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By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal Burnet Wadel, born in 1863 at Summit, Miss., lived in Mt. Pleasant...
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Above photo, Cattleman Fred Barker set up his morning headquarters at Linda Stinson's Dairy Bar in Mt. Vernon. From East...
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By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal Hogue Pottery – The last Hogue Pottery was built in Mt. Pleasant...
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From East Texas Journal, July 2023 Hollywood veteran Jack Canson skews heavily Silver Fox these days. It’s a role he’s...
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From East Texas Journal, November 1993 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Pittsburg, Texas - #819 Cotton Belt Star - It...
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