Letter from Paul Osterhout to his parents, John Patterson and Junia Roberts Osterhout. He wrote to inform them that he planned to visit for a few weeks during the holidays and that he wanted his parents to get him new clothes during that time. In his letter, he detailed an accident between a train and the convict train in which a few convicts tried to make an escape.

Patent for a new and improved quilting-frame for sewing machines. This design "is to combine the parts by which a quilter is suspended from a ceiling and connected with a sewing-machine" (lines 15-18). To this end, it consists in "[t]he track having a bead on the inner side of top, an eye at each end, and suspended on an incline from the ceiling by two wires at each end, said wires diverging from the track-eyes to the ceiling, in combination with the head-block arranged on the opposite side of track from the sewing-machine arm and carrying rolls suspended from a block" (lines 78-86).

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

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

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

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

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

Patent for the invention is to provide a character to be attached on a mounted on the derrick of a drilling rig and which will accurately indicate the cooperative weight of the load attached to the back of rig.

Letter from Fayez Sarofim to Mr. I. H. Kempner, III discussing about a study on Beet Sugar Industry.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about funeral services for three Boy Scouts who were killed in Davy Crockett National Forest after high winds blew a tree on top of their tent.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three Boy Scouts who were killed in Davy Crockett National Forest after high winds blew a tree on top of their tent.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about three Boy Scouts who were killed in Davy Crockett National Forest after high winds blew a tree on top of their tent.

Juan Parras was born in Big Spring in 1949. He moved to San Antonio to attend seminary and attended St. Mary's in 1968 before transferring to the University of Houston in 1971. He began working at the Harris County Welfare Department where he led a walkout. Mr. Parras discusses unionizing and his 15 year career working with the International Union and other unions. His latest activism revolves around environmental justice issues and is the founder of Tejas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (TEJAS), an organization working in Houston since 2006.