Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Broughton, D.W. (died 1890) and M.J. Broughton (Executor or Guardian)

Patent for a new and improved ruler. This design consists in "the combination of the flexible top piece or strip having parallel longitudinal ruling-edges and the separate tapering feet secured to the underside of said strip at suitable distances apart throughout the length of the latter, and with the ruling-edges of the top strip overlapping them" (lines 43-50).

Patent for a new and improved conveyer and cleaner of cotton. This design consists, "with the cotton pneumatic tube and the fan for producing an air-current therein, of the branch-tubes connecting the segments of the tube first named, the cotton-arresting screens, the enlarged mouth upon the tube-segment opposite the fan, the rotating cylinder mounted between said branches, the wings thereon completely filling, with the cylinder, the upper portion of the mouth and sweeping over the faces of the screens, the flexible valve, and the spring-actuated gate closing that part of the mouth" (lines 14-25).

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Smith, W.R. et al (Minors) and C.B. Gillespie (Executor or Guardian)

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

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Dreyer, G. (died November 11, 1890) and H.B. Drew (Executor or Guardian).

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of McCoy, Eliza (died November 8, 1891) and J.M. McCoy (Executor or Guardian)