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[Letter, March 1, 1875]

Description: This document is a letter from the Charles B. Moore Collection. The letter is dated March 1, 1875 and is not addressed to a specific person. The letter details personal information and it includes: the weather in Moore's location; the type of woman that would suit him in life; his lineage, traits and personal views; his current line of work in agriculture; his feelings about getting to know this person he is writing to in the letter; the health of his family; and news of friends. Moore closes t… more
Date: March 1, 1875
Creator: Moore, Charles B.
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[Letter, March 3, 1875]

Description: This document is from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is a letter to Moore from a woman named Helen Duncan. She details her love of writing letters to Moore. The conversation then moves to the topic of marriage and she mentions that she fears she will never find someone. She restates her promise to Moore, which was to find Moore a widow to marry, and notes that it would be a difficult task to find a woman to fit Moore's specifications of what he would want in a wife. She asks Moore if an ol… more
Date: March 3, 1875
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[Envelope, 1875]

Description: This document is an envelope from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is addressed to Charles B. Moore and sent to the post office in McKinney, Texas. There is a note on the lower right side of the envelope that says "Mrs. D. Wood, read March 24th 1875."
Date: 1875
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[Envelope, 1875]

Description: This document is from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is an envelope addressed to C. B. Moore who was located in McKinney, Collin County, Texas. The postage stamp is dated July 1. The year appears to have been written later and it is 1875.
Date: 1875
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Improvement in Tire-Tighteners.

Description: Patent for a device "for the purpose of tightening or loosening tires on wheels belonging to any kind of vehicles without shrinking or cutting the tires." (Lines 6-9) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 27, 1875
Creator: Horton, Henry A. R. & Hayes, Amos P.
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Improvement in Compound Engines.

Description: Patent for "a series of engines for working the steam over by exhausting it from the first into the second, and so on, for utilizing the pressure lost when steam is exhausted from a single engine into the air..." (lines 7-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 16, 1875
Creator: Bell, Jackson W.
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