Patent for a new and improved rule-gage. This design "relates to improvements in gages for carpenter's rules; and it consists of a gage formed of sheet metal adapted to be detachably applied to an ordinary two-foot rule to convert it instantly into a gage-rule" (lines 7-11).

Patent for a new and improved valve. This design is "to provide a . . . valve . . . to cut off the supply of water upon the outside of the induction-port and to drain all water from the valve-body and the connecting-pipes above the same, thereby preventing freezing of the same" (lines 10-15). It consists in "[t]he valve casing or body having oppositely-located ports and provided with a perforated interiorly-threaded lug or projection, in combination with the flanged bushing seated in said valve-casing and having a valve-seat at its outer end, and perforations extending through the flange" (lines 93-99).

Patent for "a new and improved steam-engine in which the motive agent is utilized to the fullest advantage" (lines 8-10).

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs with business name and text reading: "Dealers in Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils, Stationery and Fancy Goods, South Stonewall St."; "Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Any Hour, Day Or Night"; Manufacturers of Crockett's Egyptian Oil, Texas Anti-Bilious Bullets and Egyptian Hair Renewer."