Patent for a cattle guard that will turn horses, cattle, mules, etc.

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

Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to I. H. Kempner and D. W. Kempner discussing how a person who had leased a majority of of acres they owned came into the office asking if there was any land to lease.

Letter from John C. Brewer to Emma Davis discussing mutual acquaintances, John feeling ill, and crops.

Patent for a new and improved mail-bag fastener. This design "is to provide a fastening for mail-bags, which may be quickly manipulated to fasten or unfasten the bag. To this end the invention consists, essentially, of a slide formed with key-hole slots and carried by an overlapping flap, the said slide being adapted to engaged headed studs that are secured to one side of the main portion of the pouch and passed through apertures formed in the other side of the pouch" (lines 7-16).

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

Patent for a well-boring auger is designed to improve the drilling process by multi-functional features of the auger that can be placed inside of a well-casing to cut a hole or can be used itself to cut through the casing.