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Automatic Rotary Hydraulic Casing-Spear.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Automatic Rotary Hydraulic Casing-Spears" (lines 5-7) which "relates to improvements in well-boring apparatus" (lines 13-14).
Date:
December 26, 1905
Creator:
Johnston, Horace G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ball Bearing Jack
Patent for a ball bearing jack. Illustration included.
Date:
November 14, 1905
Creator:
Johnston, Horace G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton Press And Feeder
Patent for automatic cotton press and feeder. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 20, 1906
Creator:
Cumpston, Frederick Bernard; Sewell, T. W.; Page, R. J. & Young, M. G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton-Tramper
Patent for an automatics cotton presser. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 22, 1909
Creator:
Campbell, Edgar Howard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Vehicle Running - Gear
Patent for
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Bassett, Lawrence Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie.
Patent for "a bale-tie which may with readiness and case be locked in position upon a bale and which will be positive in operation and thoroughly efiective for the purpose designed"(lines 8-12)
Date:
October 28, 1902
Creator:
Griggs, James Wesley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition for Killing Grass
Patent for an improved chemical designed to kill grass, weeds and other undesirable plants. It can sprayed or sprinkled on the plants and within twenty minutes the grass or weeds will start to die even within the roots themselvs.
Date:
May 22, 1906
Creator:
Hulsey, Charley Marion
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bit for Well-Drilling Apparatus.
Patent for a rotary expansion bit for use with well-drilling apparatuses. The bit can be adjusted without removing the well tubing, and can drill a hole large than the tubing in order to insert casing sections.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Sloan, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Articulating Plate
Patent for "new and useful articulating plate" (lines 5-6), including illustration and instructions.
Date:
April 11, 1900
Creator:
Driskill, T. F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke.
Patent for improvements in animal-poke by providing a device which is arranged for convenient application to an animal, so as not to interfere with the grazing and drinking thereof, and will effectually prevent the animal from destroying fences and also from pushing and fighting other stock. (Lines 9-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
Barnes, John I.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Maintaining A Continuous Flow Of Sand Carrying Oil From Wells
Patent for an apparatus for maintaining a continuous flow of sand carrying oil from wells. Illustration included.
Date:
June 14, 1904
Creator:
Cushing, William T. & Johnston, Horace G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle Lubricator
Patent for an axle lubricator, designed to allow lubricating axles without removal of wheels.
Date:
July 8, 1902
Creator:
Gowan, Richard H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton Press and Feeder
Patent for an automatic cotton press and feeder operated by fluid pressure. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 13, 1909
Creator:
Cumpston, Frederick Bernard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll Weevil Exterminator
Patent for a boll weevil exterminator. Illustration included.
Date:
August 17, 1909
Creator:
Evans, James W. & Banks, Jessie B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Base Board
Patent for base board. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 12, 1907
Creator:
Bryan, Augustus M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap
Patent for a small animal trap which consists of a cage suspended in the air on a spring system which drops when an animal disturbs the bait.
Date:
July 20, 1909
Creator:
Franks, Marion M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Journal of Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Session of The Northwest Texas Conference...of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, held at Corsica, Texas, November 13 to November 18, 1901.
Minutes of Northwest Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, formal minutes of the conferences, condensed minutes, resolutions, reports from committees, and statistical tables.
Date:
November 1901
Creator:
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard to Ms. Annie Nicholas, July 4, 1909]
Postcard with a photograph of an older African-American seated in front of another man which appears to be his son. Sent to Annie Nicholas telling her to tell someone to check the mailbox.
Date:
July 4, 1909
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Petroleum.
This report contains information about the petroleum industry in the state of Texas, including chapters on the history, nature and origin of the resource, as well as oil and gas-bearing formations. The index begins on page 93.
Date:
July 1900
Creator:
Phillips, William Battle
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Daughters of the Confederacy]
This picture was made at a state convention of the Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at Corsicana Texas, 1900. The flag in the process of being folded is of unknown origin. It was returned from New Orleans with the effects of Col. William Lull and was supposed, from its single star, to have belonged to Texas. It's description: Gray field, red star, gray and blue stripes, heavy red fringe entirely surrounding it.
Date:
1900
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Daily Courier-Light (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 713, Ed. 1 Friday, July 8, 1904
Daily newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
July 8, 1904
Creator:
Hand, F. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Daily Courier-Light (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 714, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 9, 1904
Daily newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
July 9, 1904
Creator:
Hand, F. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Daily Courier-Light (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 715, Ed. 1 Monday, July 11, 1904
Daily newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
July 11, 1904
Creator:
Hand, F. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Daily Courier-Light (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 717, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 13, 1904
Daily newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
July 13, 1904
Creator:
Hand, F. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History