Chimney-Cowl. (open access)

Chimney-Cowl.

Patent for improvements in chimney-cowls by providing a “self-operating smoke-conductor especially adapted for use in all windy climates, to be placed over the discharge-opening of the flues.” (Lines 10-13) So that a “smoke-conductor can be automatically reversed or turned by the wind in any and all directions” (15-18) to carry the smoke away. Illustration is included.
Date: September 1, 1891
Creator: Gardner, Perris W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, December 27, 1957 (open access)

The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, December 27, 1957

Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 27, 1957
Creator: Kittley, Wayne W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 1956 (open access)

The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 1956

Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 30, 1956
Creator: Kittley, Wayne W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, May 25, 1956 (open access)

The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, May 25, 1956

Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 25, 1956
Creator: Kittley, Wayne W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, March 27, 1959 (open access)

The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, March 27, 1959

Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 27, 1959
Creator: Kittley, Wayne W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 7, 1956 (open access)

The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 7, 1956

Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 7, 1956
Creator: Kittley, Wayne W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, September 14, 1956 (open access)

The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, September 14, 1956

Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 14, 1956
Creator: Kittley, Wayne W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1957 (open access)

The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1957

Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 9, 1957
Creator: Kittley, Wayne W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Minutes of the Twentieth Annual Session of the Northwest Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. (open access)

Minutes of the Twentieth Annual Session of the Northwest Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Minutes of Northwest Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, formal minutes of the proceedings, reports of the committees, and advertisements.
Date: 1885
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Navarro County, Corsicana, Texas (open access)

Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Navarro County, Corsicana, Texas

Directory of the men and women from Navarro County, Texas who served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II. Each person's entry contains their photo, a short biography, and where they served.
Date: 1945?
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 80, July 1976 - April, 1977 (open access)

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 80, July 1976 - April, 1977

The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 457.
Date: 1976/1977
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Occurrence, Availability, and Chemical Quality of Ground Water in the Cretaceous Aquifers of North-Central Texas: Volume 2 (open access)

Occurrence, Availability, and Chemical Quality of Ground Water in the Cretaceous Aquifers of North-Central Texas: Volume 2

The second volume of a two part report on the Creataceous aquifers in Texas. This volume contains information on water wells, water levels, and chemical analyses.
Date: July 1982
Creator: Nordstrom, Philip L.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Daily Courier-Light (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 267, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 7, 1905 (open access)

Daily Courier-Light (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 267, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 7, 1905

Daily newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date: February 7, 1905
Creator: Hand, F. C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas (open access)

A Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas

This book gives an overview of each of the six counties including history, important statistics and facts, and biographies of central figures. According to the title page, it contains "a History of this Important Section of the Great State of Texas, from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Prospects; also Biographical Mention of Many of the Pioneers and Prominent Citizens of the Present Time, and Full-page Portraits of the most Eminent Men of this Section."
Date: 1893
Creator: Lewis Publishing Company
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1889 (open access)

Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 30, 1889
Creator: Miller, G. P.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Daily Courier-Light (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 103, Ed. 1 Monday, August 1, 1904 (open access)

Daily Courier-Light (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 103, Ed. 1 Monday, August 1, 1904

Daily newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date: August 1, 1904
Creator: Hand, F. C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 31, 1984 (open access)

The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 31, 1984

Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 31, 1984
Creator: York, Donna
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, June 7, 1889 (open access)

Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, June 7, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 7, 1889
Creator: Miller, G. P.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, March 30, 1888 (open access)

Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, March 30, 1888

Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 30, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1980 (open access)

The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1980

Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 21, 1980
Creator: York, Donna
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 20, 1987 (open access)

Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 20, 1987

Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 20, 1987
Creator: York, Donna
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Fiftieth Annual Session (Which is the Sixth Session since division), Methodist Episcopal Church, South (open access)

Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Fiftieth Annual Session (Which is the Sixth Session since division), Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Journal proceedings of Central Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, condensed minutes of the proceedings, reports of boards and committees, appointments, memoirs, statistical tables, and advertisements. Indexes to the journal and advertisements at the end of the journal.
Date: November 1915
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Mabel Malone TWC Scrapbook] (open access)

[Mabel Malone TWC Scrapbook]

Scrapbook filled primarily with flyers, programs, letters, newspaper clippings, and other ephemera from Mabel Malone's college days. Photos of friends and family members can be seen on a few pages near the back of the book.
Date: 1918-09-10/1922~
Creator: Meyer, Mabel Malone
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Navarro Express (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 17, 1859 (open access)

The Navarro Express (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 17, 1859

Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 17, 1859
Creator: Modrall, N. P., Rev. & Van Horn, R. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History