Patent for an improved animal-stock that holds animals during branding, dehorning, castrating, &c. It looks like an open-topped cage where the operator puts the animal, and the animal cannot move. The invention is on a platform and can tip to one side and a chain is tied from the top of the machine to the bottom of the frame.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mr. Mitchell was born and raised in Stamps, Arkansas. Mitchell traveled to the Cleveland area after the saw mill in Arkansas was shut down. Mr. Mitchell received his barber's license and started his own barbershop in the 1960s. Mr. Mitchell worked in other industries while sustaining his barber shop. Mr. Mitchell and other members of the Cleveland Black community organized in efforts to integrate Cleveland. They attended several government meetings and negotiated with officials. Mr. Mitchell once showed up at a meeting of the local white citizen council and received death threats after revealing his opinion about the council's proposal of halting integration by providing more funding for the Cleveland Black school. Following the meeting, Mitchell received a death threat by a local pastor. Mitchell ultimately served for decades on the Cleveland school board after being elected in the 1960s.

Mr. Wright was born and raised in Liberty, Texas in the 1930s. HE grew up on a farm and went to segregated schools. After his graduation in 1954, he went to Prairieview A&M for a brief period of time before joining the army, where he was stationed in Germany. He returned to Texas in 1960 and began working as a medical technologist. Later, he worked for NASA on the Apollo 11 mission, the EEOC, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. In his interview, Mr. Wright describes Liberty in the 1940s and 1950s, his experience in the army, discrimination on the job in the 1960s and 1970s, community activism, his experiences as city councilman in Ames, and his hopes for hte area's future.

Semiweekly newspaper from Cleveland, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Semiweekly newspaper from Cleveland, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Semiweekly newspaper from Cleveland, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Semiweekly newspaper from Cleveland, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Semiweekly newspaper from Cleveland, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Semiweekly newspaper from Cleveland, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Semiweekly newspaper from Cleveland, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Semiweekly newspaper from Cleveland, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph of dining area of Little Shamrock Restaurant.

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Gillard-Duncan House, in Liberty, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, and photographs.

Photograph of hospital employees and Dr. Barnett holding a banner in front of the Leggett Memorial Hospital announcing the arrival of the polio vaccine. The banner says: "Get Your Sabin Polio Vaccine Here Aug. 5th." L-R: Dr. William L. Barnett, Mrs. Grace Cochran, Mrs. Winnie Pressley, Mrs. Kreiger, Lamar Malcolm Hospital Administrator & Dr. Bob Gordon.

Photograph of Mr. McEwing in suspenders and Mrs. McEwing in a dark dress with their staff in the newly remodeled Little Shamrock Restaurant posing in a line behind a long, banquet-style table with various food laid out on it. A pie case is behind them, and a small keyboard is visible in the far corner. This seating area was called the Malarkey Room.