Patent for a sand band for vehicles that protects the axle bearing from foreign objects. Illustrations included.

Patent for a "simple form of device for stretching wire, said device being adapted for attachment to a post or other support and to the wire to be stretched" (lines 9-12).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Patent for a nut lock. Illustration included.

Patent for headwear. Illustrations included.

Letter from William John Bryan to William Reagan discussing his vote for Senator Bailey and plans to come assess the voting district of Palo Pinto.

Patent for an "improved excavating apparatus adopted for use in cleaning out tanks, for excavating cellars, for dredging streams, and for other similar purposes; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices hereinafter fully set forth and claimed." (line 9-14)

Patent for a horse breaking device. This invention is designed to break the horses without balking. Illustration included.

Patent for improvements in self-dumping cage for hoisting coal or other minerals by first provide a simple and easily-controlled dumping mechanism which can be set at bottom of shaft; second, to secure a positive action of the dumping mechanism and reduce the shock and strain commonly incident to the operation of self-dumping cages; third, to provide a firmer and more easily operated dog for holding car on cage-platform. (Lines 15-22) Illustration is included.

Patent for "improvements in fence-posts, telegraph-poles, and the like."(lines 11-12) These improvements include wings what mount into slots at the base of the posts to anchor them firmly into the ground. Including instructions and illustrations.

Patent for a new type of baling press, including illustrations.

Photograph of five people mounted on donkeys in a rocky outcrop with a rocky mountain wall behind them. They are all dressed up, the women wearing long dresses or skirts and the man wearing a three-piece suit, and the boy at center wearing a nice jacket. All wear hats except the man, whose hat has fallen on the ground, and the boy who holds his hat. The photograph is mounted on black cardstock which has an imprint in gold on the lower left corner that reads, "Photo Car / H. Clark / Mineral Wells, / Texas." On the back is an inscription naming the individuals from right to left: "Annie Emery - Dr. J. W. Allen - Paul Emery - Dr. F.D. Emery - ?" There is also a large imprint on the back for the Weatherford, Mineral Wells & Northwestern Railway.

Patent for a shelf bracket which can support a shelf with only one bracket.

Patent for an improvement to combination-locks for doors, safe, and bureaus, "with readily-operated means for holding the combination-disks inactive and in position to permit a locking-bolt to be freely operated by a key when so desired, which means will also permit the combination to be set so that the bolt cannot be moved by a key until the disks of the combination have been brought to proper position." (lines 11-18)

A group of men stand in front of the St. Nicholas Hotel. A colophon at the lower right designates this picture as a photographic souvenir from Minerals Wells, taken by Dan W. Evans. The building had a varied history. It was first (in 1904) an unnamed two-and-one-half-story sanitarium, then re-named the St. Nicholas Hotel, and then later it became the Delaware Hotel. It was located at N. Oak and NE 3rd Street. The building was eventually consumed by fire on October of 1907. The back of photograph has a T and P Railway logotype and this information about the Jericho Fine Photo Company: "Mountain and Donkey Groups, View Souvenirs and Scenery of Min-Wells, Kodak Supplies and Finishing, Button and Stamp Photos a Specialty. Dan W. Evans Prop. Min Wells, Tex."