Automatic Cut-Off for Cisterns (open access)

Automatic Cut-Off for Cisterns

Patent for a automatic cutoff for cisterns which prevents the first muddy water coming down a rain spout from going into the cistern by sending it into a separate waste pipe.
Date: March 9, 1909
Creator: Estes, Robert Ephriam
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5073 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5073

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Order of commissioners' court of Midland County quoted in your letter in invalid.
Date: February 9, 1943
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Claudia to T. N. Carswell - November 9, 1965] (open access)

[Letter from Claudia to T. N. Carswell - November 9, 1965]

A letter written to Mr. Carswell from Claudia, Midland, Texas, dated November 9, 1965. Claudia acknowledges her receipt of the letter from Carswell and criticizes her own writing habits. She advises that she and her mother had been on a holiday and describes their move from Abilene to Midland and her work at Shell. She expresses her appreciation for his gift of the beautiful roses.
Date: November 9, 1965
Creator: Claudia
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from H. A. Palmer to T. N. Carswell - August 9, 1941] (open access)

[Letter from H. A. Palmer to T. N. Carswell - August 9, 1941]

A letter written to T. N. Carswell, Commander, Parramore Post No. 57, The American Legion, Abilene, Texas, from W. B. Preston, Post Commander by H. A. Palmer, Post Adjutant, Midland, Texas, dated August 9, 1941. Preston acknowledges the announcement by Carswell that the Post has Abilene's hat in the ring for the 1942 Departmental Convention assuring Carswell that he is "rootin' for you all the way".
Date: August 9, 1941
Creator: Palmer, H. A.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History