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Animal Trap. (open access)

Animal Trap.

Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "the combination of the wire frame having the parallel base-arms, the coiled-springs, the upwardly-extending arms, and the downwardly-extending loop, the loop or ring on the bend and engaged portions of said wire, and the trigger-wire having the frontwardly-projecting point engaging said ring" (lines 80-87).
Date: July 10, 1888
Creator: Beversdorf, Louis, Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Arc Lamp (open access)

Arc Lamp

Patent for improvements arc lamps that "will be uninfluenced by the jar of the locomotive" (lines 17-19). Consisting of carbon-carriers rotated by clock-train.
Date: July 10, 1888
Creator: Gaston, E. James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 158, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 10, 1888 (open access)

Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 158, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 10, 1888

Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 10, 1888
Creator: Garrett, O. H. P.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter Combined. (open access)

Corn and Cotton Planter Combined.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "has relation to that class of cotton and corn planters in which are hoppers smaller at their top than at their bottom and hoppers larger at their top than at their bottom, to adapt them for planting cotton-seed and corn, respectively. It is the object of the invention to provide the planter with interchangeable hoppers of the above construction, whereby either can be used upon the same machine, as found desirable, the hopper-seat being especially adapted to receive and hold thereon either one of the hoppers" (lines 12-24).
Date: July 10, 1888
Creator: Mallison, James C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1397: Brewer, Maggie R. (Minor) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 1397: Brewer, Maggie R. (Minor)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Brewer, Maggie R. (Minor) and S.G. Brewer (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1888-07-10/1888-07-10
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 209, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 10, 1888 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 209, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 10, 1888

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 10, 1888
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 75, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 10, 1888 (open access)

The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 75, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 10, 1888

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 10, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. EIGHTH YEAR, No. 164, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 10, 1888 (open access)

El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. EIGHTH YEAR, No. 164, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 10, 1888

Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 10, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 148, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 10, 1888 (open access)

San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 148, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 10, 1888

Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 10, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Chautauquan. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 10, 1888 (open access)

Texas Chautauquan. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 10, 1888

Newspaper from San Marcos, Texas published daily during the Texas Chautauqua that includes news of interest to attendees along with advertising.
Date: July 10, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tug. (open access)

Tug.

Patent for a new and improved hame tug. This design consists in "the carrier . . . adapted for connection with the belly and back bands, constructed with a recess for the spring and provided with guides or ways for the tug-bar, such guides or ways leading forward and back from the spring-recess, whereby the tug-bar may extend entirely through and beyond the opposite ends of the spring-receiving recess, combined with the tug-bar and the spring" (lines 68-77).
Date: July 10, 1888
Creator: French, Stephen H. & Maltby, William J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History