Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes articles and stories on a variety of family and social topics, with an emphasis on temperance and prohibition, along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes articles and stories on a variety of family and social topics, with an emphasis on temperance and prohibition, along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes articles and stories on a variety of family and social topics, with an emphasis on temperance and prohibition, along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes articles and stories on a variety of family and social topics, with an emphasis on temperance and prohibition, along with advertising.

Letter from J. A. Waight to A. P. Mills discussing wages owed for time worked by Mills in January 1918.

Patent for a fluid dispensing apparatus meant to improve the dispensation of oil and similar liquids from appropriate faucets.

Patent for "bodily revolving a mass of fibrous material over a disintegrating member whereby a shearing action is had and the material disintegrated." (lines 13-16)

Postcard of the St. Paul's Sanitarium in Dallas, Texas. The image is an illustration of a large, Romanesque Revival style building, primarily of red brick with white trim. The correspondence on the back is addressed to "Prof. F. E. Morton" and speaks about having Professor Morton teach in Texas and a woman who has been ill. The signature is "Sister Min[..]t."

Patent for improvements to Cotton-Gins' brush cylinders that includes "a longitudinal tubular member having a brush cylinder cooperating therewith and which serves as a conduit for the passage of the lint cotton from the gin and also as a connecting means for the legs of the gin frame and as an end outlet for the gin, and leaving the rear of the latter unobstructed and freely accessible" (lines 13-21), including illustrations and instructions.

Patent for a blow-out guard for double tube tires. It is meant to a barrier "interposed between the inner and outer tubes of a pneumatic tire, to reinforce an apertured or weakened place...preventing the inner tube from 'blowing out' at such a point." (Line 11-16)

Patent for an improvement to churns; this invention provides a churn in which milk is thoroughly agitated via the opposite rotation of two dashers, and will simultaneously allow for observation of the churning operation via a glass vessel.

Patent for knee-pads that are used for berry or cotton pickers.

Patent for improvements in press-head-operating apparatus “to provide means for rotating the connecting member and also means for retaining the parts in their relative positions.” (Lines [20]-[23].) Illustration is included.

Patent for Grating Machine

Patent for "a counting machine, and it more particularly relates to an attachment for typewriters (lines 12-14).

Patent for self-propelled vehicle with means for reducing a barrier such as a wire entanglement.

Patent for improvements made in the design of disinfecting devices in order to create "a simple and inexpensive apparatus ... effective in evaporating and distributing disinfectants, liquid perfumes or other fluids" (lines 10-13), including illustrations and a description. The device is designed to "discharge a regular supply" (line 14) of fluids, be of "strong, durable, simple" (lines 25-26) construction, and make visible the amount of disinfectant remaining in the device.

Patent for an invention that relates to front wheel driving mechanism. This invention is to provide simple and reliable driving mechanism between the engine and each of the front wheels of a motor vehicle.

Postcard of a large brick building with white accents connected to two smaller buildings through an annex on a busy roadway with cars and pedestrians. The message on the back is illegible. The postcard is addressed to "Miss Mamie McFaddin 1906 McFaddin Beaumont, Tex."

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

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

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

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

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