Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 30, Ed. 1, Tuesday, October 14, 1856 (open access)

Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 30, Ed. 1, Tuesday, October 14, 1856

Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 14, 1856
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 4, Ed. 1, Tuesday, April 14, 1857 (open access)

Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 4, Ed. 1, Tuesday, April 14, 1857

Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 14, 1857
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 23, Ed. 1, Tuesday, August 14, 1855 (open access)

Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 23, Ed. 1, Tuesday, August 14, 1855

Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 14, 1855
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 10, Ed. 1, Thursday, June 14, 1860 (open access)

Galveston Weekly News (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 10, Ed. 1, Thursday, June 14, 1860

Weekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 14, 1860
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 9, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 14, 1847 (open access)

The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 9, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 14, 1847

Semiweekly newspaper from the Galveston, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 14, 1847
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in treating grain to obtain extractive matter for coloring and flavoring spirits. (open access)

Improvement in treating grain to obtain extractive matter for coloring and flavoring spirits.

Patent for "Improvement in the Mode of extracting Flavors from Grain." (lines 3-4)
Date: June 14, 1870
Creator: Gilman, Samuel H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Wheel. (open access)

Bicycle-Wheel.

Patent for an improved rear bicycle-wheel. It has one hub, two rims, two sets of spokes and tires. This invention is meant to be safer and has the qualities of a tricycle. It is meant for a woman's bicycle.
Date: January 14, 1896
Creator: Broers, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cooking Utensil. (open access)

Cooking Utensil.

Patent for a cooking utensil that is used to cook cereal and similar food articles "that are boiled, steamed, or heated by the agency of boiling water, the objects being to provide a sauce-pan or other suitable vessel, with novel interior parts, that will facilitate the cooking of oatmeal, mush, grits, rice, or other cereals, without danger of their burning, dispensing with need of constant attention, and effecting the operation in a speedy, thorough manner" (lines 11-19).
Date: November 14, 1893
Creator: Nicholls, George Habberton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Finger-Exercising Machine. (open access)

Finger-Exercising Machine.

Patent for a finger-exercising machine that is meant to improve the finger strength and flexibility of musicians. "A cylinder provided with friction-rollers imparts motion to a set of keys upon which the fingers are placed; and the object of [the invention] is to impart flexibility to the fingers, and to overcome the otherwise difficult motion" (lines 11-16).
Date: September 14, 1880
Creator: Becker, Francis L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plant-Protector. (open access)

Plant-Protector.

Patent for an adjustable shade that protects plants from direct sunlight while still allowing some light to reach the plant.
Date: March 14, 1893
Creator: Gruetzmacher, Louis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dredging Apparatus. (open access)

Dredging Apparatus.

Patent for an improved dredging apparatus "and it consists in combining with the well known bucket chain form of excavator a suction pipe provided with a hopper and a crushing or breaking device so that the material being deposited in the hopper by the continuously moving buckets will be carried under the action of gravity to the breaking or crushing device and thence through a suction pipe and pump and delivery pipe to the place of deposit" (lines 9-18).
Date: February 14, 1893
Creator: Douglas, William M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press. (open access)

Cotton-Press.

Patent for "a compress having a continuous operation, whereby one bale of cotton is being formed by the compress all the time the same is working, and thereby rendering it unnecessary to completely stop the working of the entire press for every single bale made until the bale can be wrapped and discharged out of the press." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 14, 1896
Creator: Griffin, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 14, 1860 (open access)

The Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 14, 1860

Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 14, 1860
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 37, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 14, 1858 (open access)

Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 37, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 14, 1858

Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 14, 1858
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 14, 1844 (open access)

The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 14, 1844

Bi-weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 14, 1844
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 3, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 14, 1857 (open access)

Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 3, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 14, 1857

Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 14, 1857
Creator: Stuart, Hamilton & Brown, John Henry
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 16, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 14, 1857 (open access)

Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 16, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 14, 1857

Weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 14, 1857
Creator: Stuart, Hamilton & Brown, John Henry
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 14, 1843 (open access)

The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 14, 1843

Bi-weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 1843
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 14, 1844 (open access)

The Civilian and Galveston Gazette. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 14, 1844

Bi-weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 14, 1844
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Union (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 13, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 14, 1860 (open access)

Union (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 13, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 14, 1860

Tri-weekly German newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 14, 1860
Creator: Flake, F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Union (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 94, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1861 (open access)

Union (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 94, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1861

Tri-weekly German newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 14, 1861
Creator: Flake, F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Union (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 106, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1861 (open access)

Union (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 106, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1861

Tri-weekly German newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 14, 1861
Creator: Flake, F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flake's Semi-Weekly Galveston Bulletin. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 54, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 14, 1872 (open access)

Flake's Semi-Weekly Galveston Bulletin. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 54, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 14, 1872

Semi-weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 14, 1872
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Standard. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 109, Ed. 1 Monday, April 14, 1873 (open access)

The Galveston Standard. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 109, Ed. 1 Monday, April 14, 1873

Semi-weekly newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 14, 1873
Creator: Ruby, G. T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History