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

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

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

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

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

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

Patent for a new and improved press. This design consists in "a suitable frame-work, the follower, two sets of toggle-arms which are operated by a screw, and two sets of toggle-arms which extend at right angles to the two sets which are operated by the screw, and which second set are operated by a rope and tackle . . . The object of [the] invention is to produce a very powerful press in which the follower is operated by four sets of toggle-joints, two of which are operated by a screw and the other two by a rope and tackle, so as to produce twice the amount of power usually exerted in toggle-joint presses" (lines 15-29).

Daily newspaper for the Conference of the Texas Methodist Episcopal Church in Brenham in 1880. Publication includes local, state and national religious news along with some local advertising.

Photocopy of a letter from Gertrude Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout. She wrote to inform her mother about life at school. She mentioned the poor weather they'd be having and the provisions the other girls had been receiving from home. Gertrude's teaching exercise was received well by the children she taught it to and she wrote of how the girls were upset they were not allowed to go to parties outside the boarding house. She told her mother she would see her Christmas time.

Photocopy of a letter from Gertrude Osterhout to John Patterson Osterhout. She wrote her father to update him on her life at school. Gertrude apologized for having committed a sin and not confiding in her father. She spoke briefly about the weather and her brother, Paul.

Photocopy of a letter from Gertrude Osterhout to John Patterson Osterhout. She wrote to update her father on her life at school. She heard that he had been asked to deliver a commencement address at Baylor and mentioned some about her studies. She informed him that her brother, Paul, did not take much interest in attending church services.

Photocopy of a letter from Gertrude Osterhout to Ora and Junia Roberts Osterhout. She wrote to update her sisters about her life at school. She included small bits of news regarding her studies and plans to go on a picnic. She asked about the family orchards and requested that her sisters send her a box of the fruit.

Letter from Gertrude Osterhout to her sisters, Ora and Junia Roberts Osterhout. She wrote to update her sisters about her life at school. She included small bits of news regarding her studies and plans to go on a picnic. She asked about the family orchards and requested that her sisters send her a box of the fruit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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