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

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

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

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

Recorded copies of Travis County deeds, conveyances, and other muniments of title affecting ownership to real estate from July 1883 to March 1886, including warranty deeds, gift deeds, partition deeds, guardian deeds, quitclaim deeds, royalty deeds, various types of affidavits, appointments and resignations of trustees, trust indentures, transfers of liens, conveyances of liens, assignments of liens, subordination of liens, various types of partial releases, leases, easements, contracts of sale, bills of sale, homestead designations, various types of agreements, powers of attorney, revocations of powers of attorney, restrictions, removals of disabilities (minor, coveture), certified copies of probate proceedings, certified copies of divorce decrees (when real property is divided), extensions, options, rental divisions, and amended restrictions. Specific information includes instrument number, kind of instrument, date and place of execution, names of parties involved, amounts of principal and interest (when applicable), description of property, signatures of parties, and notarization. Also includes recording certificate, showing date filed, date recorded, and signature of county clerk or deputy. Arranged chronologically by date recorded.

Recorded copies of minutes of Travis County civil cases heard in county court from July 1883 to April 1888, showing term of court, date of proceedings, case number, style of case, names of attorneys, nature of matter before the court and proceedings thereon, orders and judgments of the court, signatures of presiding judge and attorneys, clerk's attestation, date filed, and date recorded. Arranged chronologically by date recorded.

Patent for a new and improved barber's chair. This design relates to certain improvements in registering devices for barber-chairs, and has for its object to provide means whereby a correct tally can be kept of the persons shaved and the number of hair-cuts which have been performed during the day, week, or month. . . . [The] invention is only applicable to the style of barber-chairs that have a tilting motion backward and forward, for the purpose of more conveniently placing the person when being shaved or having his [or her] hair cut" (lines 10-21).

Patent for a new and improved book holder. This design "consists in the peculiar construction of the main frame or case provided at or near one end with a slot or opening to expose a portion of the blank paper, and a clamping device to hold the copy-slips, and at its opposite end with a tubular instrument and pen-wiper receptacle" (lines 21-27).