OSCAR L. TAYLOR 1894-1988
Special to the journal Synopsis by Etta Ray Case from an interview with Oscar Leonodis Taylor in 1979 Editor’s
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Camp County families built East Texas Peach Capital
Above photos, means the same now as 31 years ago, there’s work from daylight to dark at Efurd Orchards, where
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Every store in Cookville robbed !
By Sam Ferguson East Texas Journal Production Manager Cookville Texas was visited by a gang of burglars and “knob knockers”
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Scholarship winners score on poultry giant’s West Side ties
Above Photo, winners of the Sue Whalyn Payne Memorial Scholarship are: Diya Desai, Yahaira Pina, Tanner Marshall, Amir Martinez and
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Talco oil brought jobs
From East Texas Journal, March 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Paycheck promise brought sharecrop family to this area TALCO,
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Southerland’s Gins in Cookville, Texas
The picture of this old Cookville Gin was taken in 1915. It is the J. O. Southerland Gin in Cookville,
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Pittsburg shop with California flair
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
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
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
By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal Ripley Townsite Company had filed its charter in Austin, Texas July 26,
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