Receipt for Collin County, Texas, school taxes received from J. N. McCreary, as agent for H. Maxwell in the amount of eleven dollars and eighty-eight cents.

Tri-weekly newspaper from Austin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

The author says that everyone is doing fine. They had a little bit of horse trouble, some of the horses got scared and loose and ran away. They were able to recover the horses though. The author went hunting in Cooke county, which didn't go well, but he found a bee tree.

Weekly German-language newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

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

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

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

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Stevenson, Geo. W. (died March 6, 1874) and E.P. Bryan (Executor or Guardian)

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

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

Patent for an improved cultivator, with adjustable wheel base, plow height and more (pg 1).

Patent for improvement in iron fences by using rails and bars to support the braced posts. All the parts are easily taken apart, this flexibility allows the fence to be set on uneven as well as on level ground. Illustration is included.

Patent for the improvement of grinding-mills, including a description and illustration.

Weekly German-language newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

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

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

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

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

Patent for the improvement of brick-machines, consisting in the arrangement, with the molds, of one or more valves of flood-gates in the bottom of the pugmill, for the purpose of controlling the flow of the clay into the molds, and a roller and knife upon each side of the mill for pressing the clay into the molds and dressing the tops of the bricks. It includes a description and illustration.

Patent for improvement in railroad-switches by “mounting a frog on a plate, and provided with pivoted rails or rail-sections, arranged for operation in connection with fixed rail-sections upon the plate, to form a continuity with either line of main rail, and connected below the plate by pivoted bars or levers, to secure a relative action or adjustment of the pivoted or movable rail-sections, whereby a very perfect and simple frog operating to prevent break in the main line or lines is obtained, and which is capable of being adjusted by passing trains in opposite directions of travel.” (Lines 5-18) Illustration is included.

Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Washing-Machines" for which "the novelty consists in providing the tank with two separate apartments or boxes for containing, respectively, suds and clear water, and in arranging the separating partition so that an ordinary wringer may be attached thereto and used on the clothes as they pass from the suds-box to the clear-water box."

Weekly German-language newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

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

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