Patent for an automatic switch indicator. This invention is designed to "prevent accidents resulting from misplaced switches, due to the carelessness of the railroad employees or the inability of the engineer to see the customary track-signals" (line 14-19). Illustrations included.

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

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

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

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

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

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination, with the hopper and the seed-slide therein having one end projecting from one end of the hopper, of the reciprocating yoke having its rear portion angular in cross-section and its front portion cylindrical in cross-section and having an arm at one end to engage the opening in the projecting end of the seed-slide, the angular and cylindrical bearings for the respective parts of the yoke, whereby the latter may be unshipped from or attached to the seed-slide, and the mechanism to reciprocate the yoke" (lines 71-83).

Patent for improvement to a cotton-chopper with a "mechanism for cultivating the soil between the hills as well as for bringing the said hills to a regular form" (lines 18-20).

Letter from Alex Bradford to Wm. Denzil Grogan discussing his recent experiences after leaving Aldershot to join the No. 1 Canadian Tunneling Company and later the British army in 1941. After the attack on Peral Harbor, Mr. Bradford touches upon his request to transfer to reserve status, allowing for him to join U.S. forces. Finally, Mr. Bradford mentions that he is back in the United States and provides his mailing address.

Letter from Thomas L. James to Walter F. Woodul discussing oil leases.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about federal judge Leo Brewster who signed into an order amended classroom integration plan which formally ends months of legal debate over whether or not first grade students in the Fort Worth school district should be bussed.