Patent for a crate designed for more convenience in shipping. 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.

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).

A memorandum written by D. W. Kempner discussing the Blakely area and Sugar Land, Texas.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the coast guard saying that a cutter towing a disabled pleasure craft to Port Isabel which has arrived in port.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story a 32-foot boat "Freedom Quest" which was towed into Port Isabel after it drifted in the Gulf of Mexico without fuel.

Patent for a digging machine specialized in breaking hard soil and creating ridges that attempt to reduce erosion.

Letter from L. Charles Billings to Mr. Kempner discussing deed records relating to the north half of Lot 7, John Moyer Survey, A-403, in Colorado County, Texas.

Patent for a new and improved ventilator. This design is "to provide a ventilator which shall automatically accommodate or turn the collecting-hood thereof to the direction in which the wind is blowing, to collect and conduct fresh pure air into buildings, cars, &c.; to provide means for regulating the distribution of the air to the compartments or different parts of the buildings, &c.; to diminish the friction and wear between the swiveled collecting-hood and its supporting devices whereby said hood and its attached vane are enabled to turn more freely and readily" (lines 17-29).

Patent for "...a tool embodying certain novel features and details of construction, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and claimed" (lines 7-10) with illustration and descriptions.

This patent was created for free ends of wire to be united and form a circular shape. The wire is then interconnected with a loop that has been doubled by the device.

Design patent for an insect-exterminator that consists of a circular pan and a conical lamp-body arranged centrally within the pan and projecting above the plane thereof.