Weekly newspaper from San Augustine, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from San Augustine, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Photograph of an unidentified woman holding a small book in one hand and holding the hand of a woman standing behind her. The photograph appears to have been cut down from a larger photograph. According to the inscription on the back, she is wearing a dress designed by Frances Bernard Price for the bridesmaids of her cousin Jane Roberts of San Augustine, Texas.

Photograph of William A. Polk, head and shoulders against a light background. He has a moustache and is wearing a light shirt, dark jacket and a bow tie. The photographer's imprint at the bottom of the card is "Texas Photo Company." Written in pencil on the back of the card is the name William A. Polk and the names of other family members. Polk was a bachelor, with no children, and lived in San Augustine, Texas.

Cadastral map of San Augustine County and Sabine County, Texas in the Piney Woods region. Some borders are marked in color. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).

Patent for medical compound that consists of whisky, gum-guaiacum, bromide of potassium that can be used for curing Rheumatism and Neuralgia.

Patent for a new and improved collar. This design "consists in the combination of a flat metallic band, which passes over the top of the neck, two metallic blocks, which extend down opposite sides of the neck and are provided with locks, two perforated slides, which are connected together at their lower ends by a metallic loop . . . The object of [the] invention is to provide a bell-collar for animals, and which is not only adjustable in size, so as to be adapted to necks of different sizes, but which, when placed upon an animal's neck, can only be removed by some one who has a key to one or both of the locks" (lines 13-29).