Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate designating Navasota the Blues Capital of Texas.

Patent for an improvement in corn and cotton stalk-choppers, allowing for the stalks to be turned under by the plow and prevent their interference with the machine.

Patent for an improvement in seed-planters, which allows for adjusting to plant less or more seeds as desired.

Patent for improvement in chairs, which provides adjustable shoulder supports and back (inclination and height), with intended advantages of better lung capacity and spinal alignment. The chair can be adjusted to fit all sizes of bodies. It is noted that some of the adjustable features could be incorporated into other furnishings such as beds or lounges. An additional feature of the chair is a retracting spring to assist the user in exiting the chair.

Patent for a new and improved oil press mat. This design "relates to mats between which cakes of ground cotton or other oil-yielding seed are held while being subjected to the action of the press which separates the oil from the cakes. The invention has for its object to provide certain improvements in the construction of such mats, whereby they are made more efficient and durable than those in general use" (lines 9-17).

Patent for improvements in suspension bridges "to increase the strength of the same and reduce the n-umber of parts and simplify the general construction of the same" (lines 10-12).

Patent for an elevator for boxes and packages. Illustrations included.

Patent for a fertilizer-distributer with "means for agitating and loosening up the fertilizing material and delivering the same through a series of discharge-openings, such series extending transversely of the path of movement of the machine across the field and controlled by individual and independently-operable feed slides or gates, whereby the machine may be used for simultaneously fertilizing adjoined furrows or as a broadcast fertilizer-distributer" (Lines 12-21).

Patent for a new and useful acetylene gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.

Patent for a cutting tool which can be attached to the bottom of a shoe in order to chop cotton or other plants and pulverize ground. It is a sharp, flat, knife blade that affixes to the shoe with straps across the bridge and toe sections.