The College Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 34, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 14, 1924 (open access)

The College Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 34, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 14, 1924

Weekly student newspaper from Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos, Texas that includes news of interest to students and faculty along with advertising.
Date: June 14, 1924
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Normal Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 14, 1916 (open access)

The Normal Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 14, 1916

Weekly student newspaper from Southwest Texas State Normal in San Marcos, Texas that includes news of interest to students and faculty along with advertising.
Date: January 14, 1916
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Democrat. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, December 14, 1906 (open access)

Texas Democrat. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, December 14, 1906

Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 14, 1906
Creator: Watson, Daniel
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Normal Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 13, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 14, 1922 (open access)

The Normal Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 13, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 14, 1922

Weekly student newspaper from Southwest Texas State Normal College in San Marcos, Texas that includes news of interest to students and faculty along with advertising.
Date: January 14, 1922
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter to Public Officials in the Edwards Aquifer District (open access)

Letter to Public Officials in the Edwards Aquifer District

Letter to public officials announcing public hearings and solicitation for feedback within the Edwards Underground Water District.
Date: July 14, 1988
Creator: Edwards Underground Water District (Tex.)
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Amtrak- 1] (open access)

[News Script: Amtrak- 1]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the city of Dallas which has been without passenger train service for the last five years.
Date: March 14, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Old City Hall & Fire Station]

Photograph of the Old City Hall & Fire Station (located at Guadalupe) in San Marcos, Texas.
Date: October 14, 1985
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds. (open access)

Improvement in Medical Compounds.

Patent for a medical compound of alcohol (or "good brandy"), asafetida, camphor, laudanum, yellow jessamine, sassafras, and water.
Date: July 14, 1874
Creator: Dixon, Shadrach
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toy Cannon (open access)

Toy Cannon

Patent for an improvement to toy cannons to enable marbles and other spherical objects can be fed into cannon and fired providing a varied range of distance.
Date: March 14, 1916
Creator: Osborn, Carl B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insulator (open access)

Insulator

Patent for Insulator
Date: November 14, 1916
Creator: Williams, Roger A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Hofheinz Hotel]

Photograph of the Hofheinz Hotel in San Marcos, Texas.
Date: March 14, 1992
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame for Sewing-Machines. (open access)

Quilting-Frame for Sewing-Machines.

Patent for improvement in quilting-frames by providing “screw-eyes on the end pieces of the frame for the purpose of holding the frame together and at the same time serving to run in the rollers to carry the frame along,” (Lines 25-31) and an interchangeable roller-gages would enable either straight or curved or fancy quilting to be done. Illustration is included.
Date: July 14, 1891
Creator: Stukes, John Marion
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Polish for Woodwork and Method of Preparing the Same. (open access)

Polish for Woodwork and Method of Preparing the Same.

Patent for a polish for varnished woodwork
Date: September 14, 1914
Creator: Hancock, John Benjamin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History