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The Ferris Wheel, Volume 4, Number 38, Saturday, June 5, 1897 (open access)

The Ferris Wheel, Volume 4, Number 38, Saturday, June 5, 1897

Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements.
Date: June 5, 1897
Creator: Ezzell, Frank
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. THIRTEENTH YEAR, No. 154, Ed. 1, Sunday, September 5, 1897 (open access)

The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. THIRTEENTH YEAR, No. 154, Ed. 1, Sunday, September 5, 1897

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 5, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. THIRTEENTH YEAR, No. 245, Ed. 1, Sunday, December 5, 1897 (open access)

The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. THIRTEENTH YEAR, No. 245, Ed. 1, Sunday, December 5, 1897

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 5, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. THIRTEENTH YEAR, No. 184, Ed. 1, Tuesday, October 5, 1897 (open access)

The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. THIRTEENTH YEAR, No. 184, Ed. 1, Tuesday, October 5, 1897

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 5, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. THIRTEENTH YEAR, No. 215, Ed. 1, Friday, November 5, 1897 (open access)

The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. THIRTEENTH YEAR, No. 215, Ed. 1, Friday, November 5, 1897

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 5, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. Thirteenth Year, No. 92, Ed. 1, Monday, July 5, 1897 (open access)

The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. Thirteenth Year, No. 92, Ed. 1, Monday, July 5, 1897

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 5, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. Thirteenth Year, No. 31, Ed. 1, Wednesday, May 5, 1897 (open access)

The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. Thirteenth Year, No. 31, Ed. 1, Wednesday, May 5, 1897

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 5, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. Thirteenth Year, No. 62,  Ed. 1, Saturday, June 5, 1897 (open access)

The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. Thirteenth Year, No. 62, Ed. 1, Saturday, June 5, 1897

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 5, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. Thirteenth Year, No. 1, Ed. 1, Monday, April 5, 1897 (open access)

The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. Thirteenth Year, No. 1, Ed. 1, Monday, April 5, 1897

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 5, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. TWELFTH YEAR, No. 276, Ed. 1, Tuesday, January 5, 1897 (open access)

The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. TWELFTH YEAR, No. 276, Ed. 1, Tuesday, January 5, 1897

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. TWELFTH YEAR, No. 307, Ed. 1, Friday, February 5, 1897 (open access)

The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. TWELFTH YEAR, No. 307, Ed. 1, Friday, February 5, 1897

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 5, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. TWELFTH YEAR, No. 335, Ed. 1, Friday, March 5, 1897 (open access)

The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Vol. TWELFTH YEAR, No. 335, Ed. 1, Friday, March 5, 1897

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 5, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 35, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 5, 1897 (open access)

Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 35, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 5, 1897

Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 5, 1897
Creator: Rankin, John G.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 159, Ed. 1, Tuesday, January 5, 1897 (open access)

The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 159, Ed. 1, Tuesday, January 5, 1897

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 226, Ed. 1, Wednesday, May 5, 1897 (open access)

The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 226, Ed. 1, Wednesday, May 5, 1897

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 5, 1897
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 186, Ed. 1, Friday, February 5, 1897 (open access)

The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 186, Ed. 1, Friday, February 5, 1897

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 5, 1897
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 236, Ed. 1, Monday, April 5, 1897 (open access)

The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 236, Ed. 1, Monday, April 5, 1897

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 5, 1897
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Brownsville Daily Herald. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 28, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 5, 1897 (open access)

The Brownsville Daily Herald. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 28, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 5, 1897

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 5, 1897
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 253, Ed. 1, Saturday, June 5, 1897 (open access)

The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 253, Ed. 1, Saturday, June 5, 1897

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 5, 1897
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antirefilling Bottle. (open access)

Antirefilling Bottle.

Patent for a bottle that can be easily sealed but cannot be resealed after opened. There is a groove in the neck of the bottle, and the cork is placed below the groove. The cork is hollowed out and a plug is placed in the cork. The cork is hollowed out and a plug with a groove around it is placed in the cork.An elastic compressible locking-ring fits in the gap the groove in the bottle and the groove in the plug create.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Nevill, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a railway cattle-guard that is simple, inexpensive, and efficient. It prevents the cattle "from traversing a railway-track in order to pass form one field or inclosure to another" (line 12-14). It has spurred rollers, and has a unique way of mounting rollers or rotary ties, in that they do not block the track.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Nevill, William Birt
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Hatchet and Wire-Tightener. (open access)

Combined Hatchet and Wire-Tightener.

Patent for a device that operates as a hatchet and as a wire-twisting device, so that "slack may be taken up in fence-wires as fast as it occurs" (lines 11-12). The wire-tightener is two triangles stick out from the side of the hatchet, where the operator can pinch the wire.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Keck, Edgar A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chopping-Ax. (open access)

Chopping-Ax.

Patent for an ax that is "provided with a poll made in two sections adapted to be clamped or secured to the handle and receive a removable bit or hardened section presenting the cutting edge" (lines 16-20).
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Crabtree, James G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for a baling-press meant to bale cotton. In this machine, "the power as applied to the plunger is increased in proportion to the resistance offered by the material being baled and whereby the forward movement of the plunger is automatically checked at the limit of its path and is returned to its initial positioin without effort upon the part of the operator" (lines 10-17).
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Anderson, Alva E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History