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

Daily newspaper from Navasota, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Waxahachie, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from El Reno, Oklahoma Territory that includes local, territorial, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Vinita, Indian Territory. Coverage includes local, territorial, and United States news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Indian Territory. Coverage includes local, territorial, and United States national news, along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Patent for "a device adapted for persons making a great number of small collections, such as railway conductors" (lines 8-10).

Patent for a coach-equalizing suspender.

Patent for "...an applying and tightening device for bale-bands..." (lines 11-12) including illustrations.

Patent for a ballot box using black and white balls.

Patent for improvement in pruning-knives by creating a hollow slot in the handle of the knife and a pivoted blade; in which the blade can be pull out of the slot when in use and place it back to the slot when it is not in use. Illustration is included.

Patent for improvements in the construction and design of stop and waste cocks.

Patent for "...an improvement in music-leaf turners...by which the leaves may be readily turned from side to side as desired..." (lines 9-12) including illustrations.

Patent for improvement in small firearms. The gun combines a cylindrical breech and with an elliptical bore in order to increase the projectile’s impact and stabilize its trajectory. The invention uses an ordinary ball cartridge, improving upon an earlier patent by the inventor. Detailed explanation and illustrations included.

Patent for improvement in riding-spurs for horsemen by “using an open-ended socket, a shank having limited sliding movement in the socket, a rowel freely journaled at the outer end of the shank, and a spring inclosed within the socket and serving to hold the shank normally outward, the tines or points of the rowel being adapted to engage the socket and secure the rowel against rotation when the shank is pressed inward.” (P. 2, lines 6-14.) Illustration is included.

Patent for plow by using “a block located between the spaced beam-bars and serving not only as a spreader for holding the bars apart, but also constituting means whereby the standard or stock may be adjusted to different inclinations with relation to the beam. Another feature is a brace that rigidly holds the standard or stock in place and also forms strengthening means at the point of attachment of the handles to the beam to prevent vibration of the former, thus insuring a rigid and stable structure.” (Lines 25-36) Illustration is included.

Patent for a lightweight plow consisting of a skeleton beam and attached parts.

Patent to improve machines for manufacture of horse-collars, specifically by addressing the shaping of the horse collar, or “blocking.” The patent specifies a collar holder that “conforms to the finished outline of the collar” (line 20), a binding mechanism “brought firmly about the rim of the collar and there held while pressure is brought upon the body of the collar to properly shape it” (lines 21-25), and independent control over the “degree of strain of the binder about the collar and the degree of pressure upon it” (lines 26-27). Includes illustrations.

Patent for a compound of cotton-seed oil, beeswax, paraffin, and salicylic acid that was meant to preserve eggs by sealing their pores.

Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Daily newspaper from Bryan, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.