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[Letter from Henry S. Moore to Charles, Mary and Linnet Moore, August 19, 1893]

Description: Letter from Henry Moore to Charles, Mary and Linnet Moore in which he jokes about starvation and then lists the food he has available to eat. He was writing the Moore family while they were visiting family in Gallatin, Tennessee. Henry writesthat he has heard that there are more buggies than hogs in Texas. He discusses the financial crisis of 1893. He also talks about farming, harvesting cotton, and canning peaches. He is interested and would like to see a six inch telescope that the "College … more
Date: August 19, 1893
Creator: Moore, Henry S.
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Machine for Driving Horses.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, and efficient horse-whipping or driving machine that is meant to whip horses that are connected to machines that are powered by horses, such as thrashers, fans, and bark-mills. "The invention comprises a whip-carrying lever pivotally mounted on one end of the sweep-lever of a draft horse power, and means for moving said lever so that the whip will be caused to strike the draft horses" (lines 18-22).
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Williams, Samuel
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Horse-Power.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and powerful machine that transmits and augments "power to corn-thrashers, corn-hullers, cotton-gins, and other machines that are to be operated" (lines 12-14). The machine has an improved design that increases horse power.
Date: March 14, 1893
Creator: Terrell, John R. & Frasier, William E.
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