The Sun (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1887 (open access)

The Sun (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1887

Weekly newspaper from Weatherford, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 16, 1887
Creator: Hoeny, John, Sr.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Sun (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 1889 (open access)

The Sun (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Weatherford, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 27, 1889
Creator: Hoeny, John, Sr.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Methodist. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, June 22, 1883 (open access)

Texas Methodist. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, June 22, 1883

Newspaper from Weatherford, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 22, 1883
Creator: Prince, William
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Weatherford Times. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 26, 1886 (open access)

The Weatherford Times. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 26, 1886

Weekly newspaper from Weatherford, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 26, 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Bucket. (open access)

Well Bucket.

Patent for a new and improved well-bucket. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the well-bucket, having the rabbeted opening in its bottom, and provided with the apertured cross-bars of the valve-rod passing through the apertures in said cross-bars and the opening in the bottom of the bucket, and the valve secured to the lower end of said rod" (lines 56-62).
Date: June 10, 1884
Creator: Foat, Robert H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock Car. (open access)

Stock Car.

Patent for an improved stock-car for transporting cattle and horses on railways.
Date: June 28, 1881
Creator: Jones, Jeremiah C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rein Holder. (open access)

Rein Holder.

Patent for a new and improved rein-holder. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a base-plate and spaced posts upon one face of the said plate grooved on their adjacent sides, of a spring-actuated lever provided with a cylindrical surface at one end and a flange projecting from the outer face beyond said surface, the opposite extremity of the lever being curved to form, essentially, a hook, the cylindrical surface being adapted for engagement with one post and the hook extremity with the other post" (lines 71-81).
Date: June 4, 1889
Creator: Turman, William F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Motor. (open access)

Electric Motor.

Patent for a new and improved electric motor. This design "consists, essentially, in such combination of an automatic circuit-breaker with a bar of soft iron secured centrally on a shaft journaled in bearings secured to the motor frame and rotating within a coil or helix that the rotation of said bar will continuously make and break the circuit, and that the action of the circuit-breaker will cause the continuous rotation of the bar" (lines 17-26).
Date: June 22, 1886
Creator: Emley, James E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History