Patent for boat state rooms that convert into life rafts.

Weekly newspaper from Bonham, Texas that includes news and information on Christian topics along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Bonham, Texas that includes news and information on Christian topics along with advertising.

Weekly - and some times semi-weekly - newspaper from Bastrop, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Weekly - and some times semi-weekly - newspaper from Bastrop, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design is "to secure an equal wear of the teeth of the stationary and the revolving cutter-plates . . . whereby the instrument may be run double the usual time before it is necessary to grind the plates, and enabling the tool to be used as a right or a left hand cutter; also, to render the cutters separable without arresting the motion of the rotary blade . . . also, to provide means whereby the rotation of the cutter may be reversed . . . finally, to provide a simple device for throwing the miter-gears into and out of mesh" (lines 15-29).

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Rodgers, R.G. (died January 9, 1884) and T.J. Rodgers (Executor or Guardian)

They received their letter and happy to hear they are doing well. She mentions that her family is also well. She then talks about the weather they have been having. Although it has been raining the springs and wells are going dry. Abe had a well drilled close to the house, but could not keep it close to the house because of gas. A new well was between the barn and the spring, but again there was gas in it. Florence was watching a little girl. Mat Nay or Mat Frankland died. She mentions that owls have been taking her turkeys. Dinky sold her other cow. She comments on Linnet being so helpful and Birdie as well. She asks that they write soon. Alice writes about the subjects she is learning in school and how she wishes Linnet was there to play with her and Birdie. She mentions that her mother is going to town and what happened to Mary Dodd in the orchard.

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

Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising. The paper is the "official medium of communication for the Texas State Grange" (Vol. 2, No. 5).

Patent for a new and improved quilting frame for sewing machines. This design consists "[i]n a quilting frame, the combination, with suitable supporting standards having an inclined V-shaped track secured thereto, of a rail having rollers mounted upon the side thereof and traveling upon said track, depending brackets secured to the ends of said rail, transverse secured to the ends of said depending rods, and rollers having bearing in said transverse strips" (lines 3-11).

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Patent for a new and improved reflector for oil lamps. This design's object "is to provide a cheap, simple, and durable device for attaching and detaching a reflector to the bottom of the chimney of an ordinary coal-oil or other hand-lamp" (lines 13-17).

Patent for a new and improved egg holder. This design consists "[i]n an egg-holder, the combination, with two hollow semi-ellipsoidal sections, having downwardly-projecting stems terminating in legs, the stems being pivoted to each other, of the spring interposed between the lower ends of the stems" (lines 70-75).

Patent for a new and improved projectile. This design consists "[i]n combination with the ellipsoidal projectile having a truncated base, a plano-concave sabot or driver whose plane face is contiguous to the base of the projectile, and whose periphery is grooved for the attachment of the charge-container" (lines 75-80).