Water plan for Region I (East Texas) describing water sources and suppliers in the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies for suppliers and counties, water conservation plans, drought response plans, financing of the plan, and the process of creating the plan.

Appendices for the water plan for Region I (East Texas) including water management strategies, water needs, water conservation methods, species of concern in the area, financing methods, and related reports.

Interview with Edith Smith about her recollections of the Progressive Era of Texarkana, Texas. Smith discusses her marriage to Wilbur Smith, courting practices, her childhood, family servants, her education, church activities, a survey of downtown businesses, her job in the newspaper business, leisuretime activities, Red Cross activities during World War I, family reading material, and political activities.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

A letter addressed to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas from a parolee/inmate, in Weldon, Texas, dated January 1, 1956. Subject 108,345 expresses to Carswell his joyous feeling regarding his date of discharge which is to be on March 16. A portion of the envelope is also included in the record and is addressed to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas, and is postmarked from Weldon, Texas, on January 4, 1956.

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

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

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

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

Patent for a new means of controlling the waters. This design "is to remove or prevent the formation of sand-bars at the mouths of harbors elsewhere, calculated to obstruct navigation; also, to prevent the overflow of navigable rivers and the breaking of levees or destruction of jetties. [The] invention consists in a novel means of accomplishing these and other like ends by mechanical forces applied to increase the natural current or outflow of the navigable water toward its outlet or the ocean through the instrumentality of suitably located and anchored vessels provided with propelling devices" (lines 8-21).

Patent for a better churn which makes butter faster, releases butter from the churn more easily, and is simple to create and use. Includes instructions and illustrations.