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Saw-Filing Machine (open access)

Saw-Filing Machine

Patent for a Saw-Filing Machine. "This invention relates to saw-filing machines; and the object of the invention is to provide a simple and effective device of this character which is adapted to sharpen with accuracy and rapidity the teeth of different kinds of saws." (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date: August 25, 1903
Creator: Smith, John D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake-Setting Appliance (open access)

Air-Brake-Setting Appliance

Patent for an air brake apparatus for train cars which automatically activates when a train car is derailed. Illustrations included.
Date: April 13, 1909
Creator: Gale, Albert & Lilley, Doc M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Stone (open access)

Artificial Stone

Patent for artificial stone.
Date: April 5, 1904
Creator: Steger, Virge
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Appliance for Protecting Oil-Wells from Fires. (open access)

Appliance for Protecting Oil-Wells from Fires.

Patent for an appliance for protecting oil-wells from fires. As stated within the patent, "this invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in appliances for protecting oil-wells from fires; and to this end it consists of the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more specifically described in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claims herein appended" (Lines 9-16).
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Cochran, James M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Whip Socket and Rein Holder (open access)

Combined Whip Socket and Rein Holder

Patent for a combined whip socket and rein holder. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Jacobs, Phillip
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device (open access)

Advertising Device

Patent for Advertising Device
Date: July 28, 1903
Creator: Smith, John D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Barrel-Stand. (open access)

Barrel-Stand.

Patent for improvments to barrel stands and related to the "object in view being to provide a simple, and convenient stand for holding barrels and casks and permitting the same to be readily turned with slight exertion from a vertical to a horizontal position and vice versa" (lines 9-12) including illustrations.
Date: August 27, 1901
Creator: McClary, Rufus E. & Gray, Thomas S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Quilting Frame and Table. (open access)

Combined Quilting Frame and Table.

Patent for a quilting frame which can be quickly set up and collapsed, which folds up to occupy a minimum amount of space, and which can be converted for use as cutting and ironing table. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 14, 1896
Creator: Burns, Robert Llewellwynn
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bank-Protector. (open access)

Bank-Protector.

Patent for improvements in bank-protectors by “providing doors, windows, and other openings with suitable metallic shields that may be readily placed in position by a slight movement of the hand or foot of the operator” (lines 19-23), illustration is included.
Date: March 17, 1891
Creator: Saxon, James A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bank-Protector. (open access)

Bank-Protector.

Patent for a bank-protector that consists of vertically moving shields arranged just within the cashier's and teller's windows and the outer door of the bank, and a mechanism that allows the cashier to drop the shields and sound an alarm. Illustrations included.
Date: November 17, 1891
Creator: Saxon, James A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Addressing-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Addressing-Machines.

Patent for a new and improved design of addressing-machine which is intended for use in newspaper offices and business purposes in general. It includes illustrations.
Date: December 17, 1878
Creator: Piner, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Rotary Cotton-Chopper

Patent for "new and useful improvements in rotary cotton-choppers" (lines 4-5) that are of "the class of cotton-choppers which travel across the rows, and also to the class which use a revolving drum having blades or hoes spirally arranged on its periphery" (lines 13-17), including descriptions and illustrations.
Date: June 8, 1880
Creator: Lee, John C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap. (open access)

Ant Trap.

Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "compris[es] the sides adapted to encompass an anthill and composed of a bottom, inclined walls, and horizontal top portions, having depending inclined flanges, one of the sides having an opening in its bottom and provided with ways arranged on opposite sides of the opening, a removable receptacle provided with flanges arranged in said ways and having inwardly-inclined walls, and a discharge-tube arranged at one corner of the trap" (lines 77-87).
Date: May 3, 1892
Creator: Royse, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooking Cotton-Seed Meal. (open access)

Apparatus for Cooking Cotton-Seed Meal.

Patent for an apparatus for cooking cotton-seed meal meant to get the maximum amount of oil for the meal used and puts moisture into dry meal and evaporates excess moisture in meal. Meal is continuously supplied through the machine and water-bath. The steam does not burn or harm the meal.
Date: August 27, 1895
Creator: Dabney, Benjamin & Yopp, William I.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2647, Chapter 636 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2647, Chapter 636

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to designation of Farm-to-Market Road 68 in Fannin County as Speaker Jimmy Turman Road.
Date: June 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 421, Chapter 277 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 421, Chapter 277

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the office of criminal district attorney of Fannin County and to the abolition of the office of county attorney of Fannin County.
Date: June 15, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1059 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1059

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The salary of the court reporter of the 6th Judicial District comprised of Fannin and Lamar Counties.
Date: May 16, 1950
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7116 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7116

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Is Fannin County authorized to pay claim for expenses incurred by county attorney in engaging court reporter to transcribe testimony given in a felony trial for use in another criminal trial?
Date: March 29, 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5746 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5746

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Salaries of county officials of Fannin County.
Date: 1944
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-12 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-12

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Is Fannin County liable to Fannin County Levee Improvement District No. 1 for taxes which accrued on county land after acquisition and use by the county as a poor farm?
Date: January 24, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-96 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-96

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether or not there is a vacancy in the office of Justice of the Peace of Precinct 2, Fannin County, under the facts submitted.
Date: March 20, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Lamar County, Block 13

Parent map for Lamar County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,500.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Grayson County, Block 31

Parent map for Grayson County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:12,500.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Lamar County, Block 17

Parent map for Lamar County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,500.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History