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[Letter from Alice Griffin to Mary, Linnet, and Charles B. Moore, June 29, 1896]

Letter from Alice Griffin to the Charles B. Moore family. She writes that she is unwell and able to do little but tend to the baby. She says that Florence Dodd is unwell and Florence and her husband Tobe are having a hard time financially. She describes her baby, Lillian Griffin. Included with the letter are swatches of fabric that she has used to make clothing.

Date: June 29, 1896

Creator: Griffin, Alice

Item Type: Letter

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[Letter from Alice Griffin to Mary, Linnet, and Charles B. Moore, October 11, 1896]

Letter from Alice Griffin to the Moore family in which she up dates them on the health of her family and friends; going to Plano; fixing up an old buggy; and the choice of cloth for Lillian's cloak. She included swatches of the cloth in the letter.

Date: October 11, 1896

Creator: Griffin, Alice

Item Type: Letter

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Reaping-Machine.

Patent for a reaping-machine that has grooved rollers spread throughout a recess in the base, slides where the rollers are mounted, horizontal movable shafts with pinions, racks on the slides that engage the pinions, a ring-driver wheel that surrounds the rollers and fits in the rollers with interior flanges, cutters, a belt extending from the rollers to the mechanism that operates the cutters, and a belt that connects the rolls. The cutter is a series of knives on a bar and springs that preve… more

Date: April 7, 1896

Creator: Rich, Benjamin F.

Item Type: Patent

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