Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1869 (open access)

Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1869

Weekly newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 15, 1869
Creator: Webb, W. G.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying Worms on Cotton-Plants. (open access)

Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying Worms on Cotton-Plants.

Patent for improvement in insect destroyer by “placing a gas-generator on a wagon, in its lower chamber, a fire box is placed for creating sulphurous gas. A bellows attached to its lower end to regulate sufficient air in forming the sulphurous gas.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
Date: June 15, 1869
Creator: Perl, M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffee and Teapot. (open access)

Coffee and Teapot.

Patent for an improved coffee and teapot, in which the coffee or tea are boiled into the water and then strained out. Included instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 15, 1869
Creator: Heiss, Gregor & Schmidt, Martin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History