This home movie excerpt documents a drive through downtown Abilene and Clyde, Texas wth the narrator pointing out sites of interest. In Abilene, he observes Grace Cultural Center, the Cypress Restaurant, the Paramount Theatre, and Abilene Civic Center. In Clyde, they drive through a residential area and through the main part of town pointing out the feed store, firehouse, library, justice of the peace, Western Auto, the funeral parlor, Motts, the bank, West Texas Utilities, a post office, a medical clinic, Wayne's Barber Shop, the Clyde Cafe, and the junior high and high school campuses. They also stop at First Med Clinic, an extension of Hendrick Medical Center.

Letter from grocer Jess Pyeatt to Texas State Representative Truett Latimer thanking him for voting against a general sales tax bill.

Postcard from J. D. Smith to Truett Latimer expressing opposition to House Bill 20.

Patent for a new and improved nut-lock. This design "is an improvement in that class of nut-locks in which so-called 'jam-nuts' are turned up on the bolt against the nut to be locked; and the present invention lies, mainly, in the particular construction of the end or ends of the thread of the locking nut or washer by which to more securely and effectually lock the nut in place on the bolt" (lines 8-15).

Patent for improvements in hanging or hidden beds by having “hangers pivoted at their upper ends to fixed supports and having upwardly-opening angular hooks at their lower ends, of a bed-frame, legs pivoted to the ends of the end bars thereof, pitman-rods extending inwardly from said legs, a piece to whose ends said rods are connected, an outward projection between the ends of said piece detachably engaging and closely fitting one of said hooks, and a pivot passing through the projection and piece and into the end bar, as and for the purpose herein before set forth.” (Page 2, lines 26-36) Illustration is included.