Dr. Palmore Currey’s Legacy includes the gift of fire
By HUDSON OLDJournal Publisher He gave us fire.Not a scout fire, not a bonfire — the woods on fire, a
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Biographer preserved the fading legend of Catfish Smith
Above photo, Glen Slaughter played for Catfish Smith, an athlete and coach who played semi-pro ball for the Mt. Pleasant
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National championship Coach Robert Caskey had game day with Don Meredith
Above photo’ the centerfold shot of his Aggie Yearbook featured Robert Caskey’s A&M roommate tackling SMU quarterback Don Meredith at
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Farmers sons marched to war
Above photo, meat wasn’t a staple when Alfred Cox was one of 13 children growing up on Titus County tenant
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Business, banking and baseball back when
Above photo, Morris Rolston, Marvin Coffee and Bugs Cross played for the Mt. Pleasant Cubs, a sandlot semipro baseball club
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Coach Parker shaped community, Congressman says
Above photo, World War II interrupted the coaching career Sam Parker resumed in 1946 when he came home to
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Coffee Culture
Above photo, the helicopter atop Huey’s Coffee made Joe Dalby’s one-time Mt. Pleasant Studebaker dealership a U.S. 67 a landmark
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Texas Milk plant dominated city skyline when Mt. Pleasant, Texas launched plan to save family farms
From East Texas Journal, February 2016 By Hudson Old, Publisher MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS — The town’s business community depended on
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Fact or fiction: century old government study probed practice of water witching
From The East Texas Journal, January 2016 By Hudson Old, Publisher So it’s the Sunday morning gathering of the tribe,
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Speeding whiskey runner loses 100 mph high speed chase in Northeast Texas
Above photo, if you can figure out why an outlaw bent on slipping through Texas with an illegal load of
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