The Victoria Advocate. (Victoria, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 13, 1889 (open access)

The Victoria Advocate. (Victoria, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 13, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Victoria, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising. The paper is "A Democratic Journal."
Date: April 13, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Business Accounts: 1901-1904] (open access)

[Business Accounts: 1901-1904]

Ledger documenting payments for ranch work; sale of pears, cotton, corn, and other goods; sale, pasturing, and inventory of livestock; and other miscellaneous business transactions.
Date: 1889-08/1904-04-23
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press (open access)

Hay-Press

Patent for improvements in hay presses "to simplify and cheapen the construction and render it more efficient in the formation of the hay into bales" (lines 16-18).
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: McNeill, Charles De Witte
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed Drier and Warmer. (open access)

Bed Drier and Warmer.

Patent for a new and improved bed drier and warmer. This design "includes, primarily, a suitable frame of essentially elliptical form, whose ends allow of the said frame being readily slipped in between the bed and bedding or between two articles of bedding, and in connection with said frame a suitable fire-pot of portable construction" (lines 23-29).
Date: May 14, 1889
Creator: Fossati, Jasper
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History