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El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 56, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 7, 1893 (open access)

El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 56, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 7, 1893

Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Washing and Scrubbing Gas. (open access)

Apparatus for Washing and Scrubbing Gas.

Patent for a washer-scrubber that cleans gas from "tarry matter, ammonia, sulphureted hydrogen, carbonic acid and other impurities" (lines 14-16). The machine divides gas into streams, sprays it with washing liquor, spreads it over reticulated and perforated plates.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Fitzgerald, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 111, Ed. 1, Tuesday, March 7, 1893 (open access)

Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 111, Ed. 1, Tuesday, March 7, 1893

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 200, Ed. 1, Tuesday, March 7, 1893 (open access)

The Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 200, Ed. 1, Tuesday, March 7, 1893

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Christopher, R.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 348, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 7, 1893 (open access)

The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 348, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 7, 1893

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 57, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 7, 1893 (open access)

Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 57, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 7, 1893

Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 3000: Lang, Robt. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 3000: Lang, Robt. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Lang, Robt. (died November 11, 1902) and Helen Janzer (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1893-03-07/1905-12-11
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 212, Ed. 1, Tuesday, March 7, 1893 (open access)

The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 212, Ed. 1, Tuesday, March 7, 1893

Daily (except Sunday) newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 90, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 7, 1893 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 90, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 7, 1893

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 3317, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 7, 1893 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 3317, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 7, 1893

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texarkana Daily Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.), Vol. 9, No. 180, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 7, 1893 (open access)

Texarkana Daily Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.), Vol. 9, No. 180, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 7, 1893

Daily newspaper from Texarkana, Arkansas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Gardner, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for an improved wind wheel that has "every other blade...has a right angled extension or cup to catch the wind, the blades thus formed being set in the hub and rim of the wheel so as to have said right angled portions where they will receive the full force of the wind" (lines 17-22). A ring supports the angled portions of the windmill blades.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Bowman, Charles R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mandrew Attachment. (open access)

Mandrew Attachment.

Patent for an improved, simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient mandrel attachment that can be easily attached, detached, and adjusted. It has "a bar at one end with a plate for its attachment and at the other end with a cam and eccentric for detachable connection and adjustment the support carrying the cam and eccentric being hinged so as to drop down so that cylinder work can be slipped over the mandrel and then the eccentric and cam raised up and tightened to the bar to hold the work to be performed" (lines 18-27).
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Bosley, Lee W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Screw-Jack. (open access)

Screw-Jack.

Patent for a simple, efficient, and economical lifting jack "which is particularly designed for removing and replacing the brasses in the journal boxes of freight, passenger and other railway cars, and which is so constructed that it can bear against the shoulder formed by the concave part of the car wheel in proximity to the tread and thus avoid the employment of special blocking for the jack, thereby enabling it to be quickly set and operated at any place without preparation of blocking as a foundation for sustaining the jack" (lines 10-21).
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Quinn, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 40, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 7, 1893 (open access)

San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 40, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 7, 1893

Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a simple and effective cotton chopper that leaves the plants in bunches that is easily operated and uses a reciprocating motion to rotate the blades and chop the stalks.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Hyde, Frank Sule
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Railroads. (open access)

Construction of Railroads.

Patent for an improved railroad construction that consists of "an all metallic railroad which will not be very expensive, will be so strong that an accident is practically impossible, and which may be very rapidly laid" (lines 11-14).
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Arnold, Eliphalet L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder. (open access)

Clothes-Pounder.

Patent for a clothes pounder "which will inclose a body of air and expel the same when it is brought down upon the clothes forcing water through the clothes and filling with water an upper chamber, and which when lifted from the clothes will release a body of water at the top of the pounder and cause water to pass through the clothes" (lines 12-19).
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Beaver, William G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History