[front] $500.00 Steward Mill Tex Jan 1st 1897 Twelve months after date for value received we promise to pay to the order of Mr. M. E. Bradley or bearer Five Hundred - Dollars as [blank - "10%" marked out] ["with interest after ___" marked out] at the rate of 10 per cent per annum and if not paid at maturity and collected by an attorney or legal proceedings, an additional sum of ten per cent on the amount of this note as attorney's fees No _____ Due Jan 1st 98 A. T. Watson G. T. Bradley [back] Received fifty dollars on the written note Feb 25 1898 M. E. Bradley Rec'd payment in full this Jan 16th 99 M. E. Bradley