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Andiron (open access)

Andiron

Patent for improvements to andiron or "fire-dogs".
Date: July 5, 1887
Creator: Steele, Oliver
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Recutting Files. (open access)

Apparatus for Recutting Files.

Patent for a new and improved file re-cutter. This design consists "[i]n an apparatus for recutting files by electro-chemical action, the dialectric plates and the carbon plates having their upper ends attached to said non-conducting plates, whereby the files to be recut are disposed between the carbon plates when in the solution" (lines 76-82).
Date: April 5, 1887
Creator: Emley, James E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Austin Weekly Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 1887 (open access)

Austin Weekly Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 1887

Weekly newspaper from Austin, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 5, 1887
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 5, 1887 (open access)

Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 5, 1887

Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 5, 1887
Creator: Rankin, John G. & Levin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 31, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 5, 1887 (open access)

Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 31, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 5, 1887

Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 5, 1887
Creator: Rankin, John G. & Levin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 55, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 5, 1887 (open access)

Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 55, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 5, 1887

Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 5, 1887
Creator: Rankin, John G. & Levin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 81, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 5, 1887 (open access)

Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 81, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 5, 1887

Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 5, 1887
Creator: Rankin, John G. & Levin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 107, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 1887 (open access)

Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 107, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 1887

Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 5, 1887
Creator: Rankin, John G. & Levin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 188, Ed. 1 Friday, August 5, 1887 (open access)

Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 188, Ed. 1 Friday, August 5, 1887

Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 5, 1887
Creator: Rankin, John G.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 231, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 5, 1887 (open access)

Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 231, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 5, 1887

Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 5, 1887
Creator: Garrett, O. H. P.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 243, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 5, 1887 (open access)

Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 243, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 5, 1887

Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 5, 1887
Creator: Garrett, O. H. P.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Canadian Free Press. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 7, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 5, 1887 (open access)

Canadian Free Press. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 7, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 5, 1887

Weekly newspaper from Canadian, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 5, 1887
Creator: Harm & Ludwick
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Canton Telephone. (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, August 5, 1887 (open access)

The Canton Telephone. (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, August 5, 1887

Weekly newspaper from Canton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 5, 1887
Creator: Foster, W. E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Brake. (open access)

Car Brake.

Patent for a new and improved car-brake. This design consists in "brake-shoes [which] are jointed by pivots to brake-blocks of the usual form, which are suspended from the truck-timbers by suitable suspending links or clevises, so that they may have a free longitudinal movement when acted upon by the actuating mechanism, and said blocks and brake-shoes are separated by transverse brake-bars, in order that they may be kept truly in-line with the car-wheels at all times" (lines 16-25).
Date: April 5, 1887
Creator: Greer, John William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupler. (open access)

Car-Coupler.

Patent for a car-coupler, with illustrations. The purpose of this patent for a car-coupler was to improve existing car-couplings by providing, "safe, convenient, and expeditious means for readily coupling and uncoupling sections of cars with the danger incurred of getting between them" (lines 12-16).
Date: April 5, 1887
Creator: Williamson, John A., JR.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 5, 1887 (open access)

Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 5, 1887

Weekly newspaper from Bonham, Texas that includes news and information on Christian topics along with advertising.
Date: January 5, 1887
Creator: Burnett, Thomas R. & Wilmeth, C. M.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator and Corn-Planter (open access)

Combined Cultivator and Corn-Planter

Patent for improvements in the design and construction of combined cultivators and planters.
Date: July 5, 1887
Creator: Wright, Samuel Winfield
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Scraper (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Scraper

Patent for new "construction and combination of devices" (lines 10-11) to improve cotton choppers and scrapers, with illustrations.
Date: July 5, 1887
Creator: Rouse, Samuel James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cotulla Ledger. (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 5, 1887 (open access)

The Cotulla Ledger. (Cotulla, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 5, 1887

Weekly newspaper from Cotulla, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 5, 1887
Creator: Bowen, W. C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 2520: Toole, Cora M. (Minor) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 2520: Toole, Cora M. (Minor)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Toole, Cora M. (Minor) and Jno. M. McCoy (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1887-07-05/1903-12-15
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 307, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 5, 1887 (open access)

The Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 307, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 5, 1887

Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 5, 1887
Creator: Gilbert, C. E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 5, 1887 (open access)

The Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 5, 1887

Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 5, 1887
Creator: Gilbert, C. E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 45, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 5, 1887 (open access)

The Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 45, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 5, 1887

Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 5, 1887
Creator: Gilbert, C. E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 70, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 5, 1887 (open access)

The Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 70, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 5, 1887

Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 5, 1887
Creator: Gilbert, C. E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History