Copy of transcript for a letter from Emily M. Austin Bryan to Stephen F. Austin in which Emily relates news of the family and acquaintances.

Daily newspaper from Texarkana, Arkansas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.

Daily newspaper from Texarkana, Arkansas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.

Daily newspaper from Texarkana, Arkansas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.

Daily newspaper from Texarkana, Arkansas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.

Daily newspaper from Texarkana, Arkansas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.

Daily newspaper from Texarkana, Arkansas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.

Daily newspaper from Texarkana, Arkansas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.

Daily newspaper from Texarkana, Arkansas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.

Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to William L. Gatz enclosing a certificate for the Bertig Company stock by Daniel W. Kempner.

Letter from Joseph R. Bertig to Jeane Kempner wishing both Kempner's a merry Christmas and giving the gift of a check. Bertig also discusses the plans for his cotton gin business.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "They enjoy living in the past as well as they do the present"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Upstream lock gate on Arkansas River navigation system, Lock and Dam No. 13 near Barling, southeast of Ft. Smith, Ark."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The push of a button Saturday at Lock and Dam No. 13 southeast of Fort Smith lowered 100-ton gates into the Arkansas River, linking river navigation facilities between Arkansas and Oklahoma. This will tie Oklahoma trade markets to the oceans of the world."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In operation, 23 years after its authorization, is Lock and Dam No. 13 on the Arkansas River. The opening of river traffic to Fort Smith, Ark., is signaled by he swirl of river waters around the closed gates of the dam. The project is expected to open the way for barge traffic to the Port of Catoosa near Tulsa by this time next year."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Giant gates along the spillway at Lock and Dam No. 13 were lowered Saturday when Mayor Allen Toothaker of Van Buren, Ark., Mayor Jack Freeze of Fort Smith, and Jim Alexander, president of the Fort Smith Chamber of Commerce, pushed these buttons."

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the Federal Welfare Department saying that number of states are going to get small government checks unless they cut down on the number of ineligible recipients and over-payments.