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Improvement in Wheel-Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Wheel-Plows.

Patent for an improvement in wheel plows made so that "the plowing may be done by passing back and forth in parallel lines" (lines 17-18).
Date: September 5, 1871
Creator: Coreth, Rudolph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Goree Family Videos, No. 8 -  Wurst Fest] captions transcript

[Goree Family Videos, No. 8 - Wurst Fest]

This home movie excerpt documents a trip to Wurst Fest in New Braunfels, Texas. Footage includes friends and family socializing in their motel room and playing with baby James Curtis Goree, the group loading into a van, and the group back at the motel following the festival.
Date: November 5, 1993
Creator: Goree
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, February 5, 1869 (open access)

Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, February 5, 1869

Weekly German newspaper from New Braunfels, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 5, 1869
Creator: Lindheimer, Ferdinand J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1869 (open access)

Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1869

Weekly German newspaper from New Braunfels, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 5, 1869
Creator: Lindheimer, Ferdinand J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 1869 (open access)

Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 1869

Weekly German newspaper from New Braunfels, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 5, 1869
Creator: Lindheimer, Ferdinand J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, August 5, 1870 (open access)

Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, August 5, 1870

Weekly German newspaper from New Braunfels, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 5, 1870
Creator: Lindheimer, Ferdinand J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Telephone-Exchange System. (open access)

Automatic Telephone-Exchange System.

Patent for "a simple system and arrangement which is especially adapted for a telephone exchange, which enables the instruments to be connected by a single wire, which dispenses with the use of an operator at the central station, which has automatic means for registering the messages sent by each subscriber, and which is provided with an automatic switching device by means of which one subscriber may connect with any other" (lines 10-19).
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Serdinko, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History