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[Letter from Minnie Rawlings to C. B. Moore, October 3, 1898]

Description: She is thankful that Mr. Moore trust them to send Linnet to spend the terms with them. She says that they will treat Linnet like a daughter. She says the cost would only be $50. She enjoyed going to Colorado in the summer and would like to go again. She talks about the weather and that farmers are almost done gathering cotton. She is concerned about the Texas problem with renters. She hopes they are revived by the time the letter gets there.
Date: October 3, 1898
Creator: Rawlings, Minnie O.
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[Letter from Mary and Charles B. Moore to Linnet Moore, October 30, 1898]

Description: Letters from Charles B. and Mary Moore to their daughter Linnet while she is visiting friends and relatives. Ethel and Gertie came to see her not knowing she was gone. Gertie is having a candy breaking for her birthday. They discuss the cotton picking that has been happening and describe a cotton throwing spree among the Newman boys that called for injuries needing Dr. Hodges. Includes note written on small slip of paper talking about weather and a woman who will board with them.
Date: October 30, 1898
Creator: Moore, Charles B. & Moore, Mary
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Cotton-Scraper.

Description: Patent for "cotton-scraper which can be applied to a shovel or other plow generally applied for cultivating cotton and which will admit of the scraper-blade-vertically, laterally, and angularly with respect to the line of motion-thereby adapting the attachment to the condition and nature of the soil, so as to secure the best results possible." (lines 8-17).
Date: December 13, 1898
Creator: Muckleroy, George Lafayette
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Combined Cotton-Seed and Corn Planter

Description: Patent for a new and improved combined cotton seed and corn planter. The invention has "relation to improved means for adjusting the wheels laterally to provide for increasing or diminishing the width of the rows" (lines 13-16).
Date: August 16, 1898
Creator: Kile, William A.
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