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Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 284, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 22, 1951 (open access)

Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 284, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 22, 1951

Daily newspaper from Gladewater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 22, 1951
Creator: Bedichek, Wendell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 27, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 22, 1951 (open access)

Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 27, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 22, 1951

Daily newspaper from Gladewater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 22, 1951
Creator: Bedichek, Wendell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 81, Ed. 1 Monday, October 22, 1951 (open access)

Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 81, Ed. 1 Monday, October 22, 1951

Daily newspaper from Gladewater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 22, 1951
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from R. Lee Kempner to C. A. Loftis, November 22, 1950] (open access)

[Letter from R. Lee Kempner to C. A. Loftis, November 22, 1950]

Letter from R. Lee Kempner to C. A. Loftis requesting to schedule a visit to Robertson plantation and information about the present members of Robertson family.
Date: November 22, 1950
Creator: Kempner, Robert Lee
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dry-Kiln Furnace. (open access)

Dry-Kiln Furnace.

Patent for improvements in dry-kiln furnaces by using “a series of furnaces alternating with a series of heating or radiating drums parallel to and on a plane above the furnace,” (Lines 116-119, p. 2) and valved connected flues. This arrangement allowed the “heat being regulated and so distributed through the kiln as to produce a varying temperature, highest at the end where the lumber is introduced and gradually diminishing toward the opposite end, where it is taken out.” (Lines 21-26) Illustration is included.
Date: September 22, 1891
Creator: Ketcham, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin. (open access)

Cotton Gin.

Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design calls for the circular saw blades of the gin to pass through two metal ribs, one of which aligns with the tip of the saw teeth, while the other aligns with the root of the saw teeth.
Date: August 22, 1882
Creator: Basom, Ransford W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History