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The Big Indian, Pittsburg shop with California flair

The Big Indian, Pittsburg shop with California flair

Business Featured
From East Texas Journal, March 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Pittsburg, Texas -- There was a picture, like a...
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Chancellor Edwards 1901-1983

Chancellor Edwards 1901-1983

East Texas History Featured
  Photo above, driver on the wagon is Rufus Garland "Rufe" McClinton, at right of him is Chancellor Edwards in...
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Oil strike turns Talco community into wide-open boom town

Oil strike turns Talco community into wide-open boom town

East Texas History Featured
From East Texas Journal, February 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Talco, Texas - The last oil boom in Texas...
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Ripley Townsite Company, Titus County, Texas

Ripley Townsite Company, Titus County, Texas

East Texas History Featured
By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal Ripley Townsite Company had filed its charter in Austin, Texas July 26,...
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Polish teen survives Nazi labor camp

Polish teen survives Nazi labor camp

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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

Mount Pleasant Oil Mill

East Texas History Featured
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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Wells Fargo driver recalled grandmother’s tale of Civil War

Wells Fargo driver recalled grandmother’s tale of Civil War

East Texas History Featured
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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Piggly Wiggly, Mt. Pleasant, Texas

Piggly Wiggly, Mt. Pleasant, Texas

Featured Mount Pleasant
By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal Piggly Wiggly – The last Piggly Wiggly in Mt. Pleasant was built...
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Manufacturing boomed in rural Cookville community

Manufacturing boomed in rural Cookville community

Business Featured
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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O. C. Falls Blacksmith Shop

O. C. Falls Blacksmith Shop

East Texas History Featured
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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Rebel Glenn Justiss lived life on his terms

Rebel Glenn Justiss lived life on his terms

East Texas History Featured
From East Texas Journal, December 1999 By HUDSON OLD, Journal Publisher   PROLOGUE “You really voted for him?” Glenn Justiss...
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Wadel-Connally Hardware Company

Wadel-Connally Hardware Company

East Texas History Featured
 By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal Burnet Wadel, born in 1863 at Summit, Miss., lived in Mt. Pleasant...
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Cattleman Fred Barker recalled German POW camp

Cattleman Fred Barker recalled German POW camp

East Texas History Featured
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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Hogue Pottery

Hogue Pottery

East Texas History Featured
By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal Hogue Pottery – The last Hogue Pottery was built in Mt. Pleasant...
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Hollywood veteran Jack Canson There’s No Business, Like Show Business

Hollywood veteran Jack Canson There’s No Business, Like Show Business

Entertainment Featured
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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