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[Burt C. Blanton and G. Robert Freeman, Jr. in Denison, Texas]

Burt C. Blanton and G. Robert Freeman, Jr. have just de-trained from a trip aboard the "Flying Scotsman" at the KATY Station in Denison, Texas on June 20, 1970.
Date: June 20, 1970
Creator: Hanlon, Pat
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 134, Ed. 1 Friday, July 20, 1900 (open access)

Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 134, Ed. 1 Friday, July 20, 1900

Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 20, 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 160, Ed. 1 Monday, August 20, 1900 (open access)

Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 160, Ed. 1 Monday, August 20, 1900

Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 20, 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 187, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 20, 1900 (open access)

Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 187, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 20, 1900

Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 20, 1900
Creator: Bowles, J. F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 213, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 20, 1900 (open access)

Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 213, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 20, 1900

Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 20, 1900
Creator: Bowles, J. F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 126, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 20, 1887 (open access)

Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 126, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 20, 1887

Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 20, 1887
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 152, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 1887 (open access)

Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 152, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 1887

Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 20, 1887
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 178, Ed. 1 Monday, June 20, 1887 (open access)

Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 178, Ed. 1 Monday, June 20, 1887

Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 20, 1887
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 20, 1887 (open access)

Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 20, 1887

Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 20, 1887
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 204, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 20, 1887 (open access)

Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 204, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 20, 1887

Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 20, 1887
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 231, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 20, 1887 (open access)

Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 231, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 20, 1887

Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 20, 1887
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 257, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 20, 1887 (open access)

Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 257, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 20, 1887

Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 20, 1887
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 283, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1887 (open access)

Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 283, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1887

Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 20, 1887
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 22, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 20, 1887 (open access)

Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 22, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 20, 1887

Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 20, 1887
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Machine for Breaking and Scouring Hides (open access)

Improved Machine for Breaking and Scouring Hides

Patent for machinery for tanning animal hides.
Date: July 20, 1869
Creator: Bean, W. O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Churns. (open access)

Improvement in Rotary Churns.

Patent for an improvement of the churn that is, "within a square wooden box, of a rotating dasher or paddle, and the mechanism for driving the same, that various parts being constructed, arranged, and operated" (lines 20-24). Illustrations included.
Date: February 20, 1877
Creator: Dean, Charles C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Earth-Augurs. (open access)

Improvement in Earth-Augurs.

Patent for a new auger design for "boring and excavating wells" (lines 15-16), including illustrations.
Date: November 20, 1877
Creator: Yarborough, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conflagration Arrester. (open access)

Conflagration Arrester.

Patent for a new and improved conflagration arrester. This design "is to provide a device by which the sides of a building adjacent to other buildings on fire may be protected by a uniform continuous sheet of water covering the sides of such building" (lines 9-13). It consists in "the combination of a series of inclined arms provided with eyes at their outer ends and having hooks to engage the side of a building, a shelf or deflector, and a rod so connecting the latter pivotally with the eyes of the inclined arms that the upper part of said shelf shall overbalance the lower part, which shall . . . rest against the wall" (lines 89-97).
Date: January 20, 1891
Creator: Puckett, Florence N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Fastening. (open access)

Car-Door Fastening.

Patent for sliding car-door fastening to improve the fastening of said car-door.
Date: January 20, 1880
Creator: Buser, William H. & Shaw, Burrell L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretching and Staple-Pulling Device. (open access)

Wire-Stretching and Staple-Pulling Device.

Patent for a tool "which is adapted for stretching wire for fencing purposed and which may also be used for drawing the staples from the posts and splicing between posts when such action is necessary." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 20, 1897
Creator: McElroy, Jesse Roberts
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener and Splicer (open access)

Wire Tightener and Splicer

Patent for "a device adapted to be used in tightening and splicing the wires of wire fences, which can be manufactured at a very small cost and sold at about five cents each" (lines 12-16).
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Taylor, Shapley P. Ross; Sharman, William T. & Jamison, Joseph L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Gage. (open access)

Water Gage.

Patent for a new and improved water gauge. This design "consists in the arrangement of a chamber attached to the lower valve of an ordinary water-gage; and the object of [the] improvement is to prevent the foam and sentiment of steam-boilers from accumulating in the glass, stuffing-boxes, and valves of water-gages" (lines 8-14).
Date: January 20, 1885
Creator: Willis, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire Kindler. (open access)

Fire Kindler.

Patent for a new fire-kindler which lists the composition of ingredients. Patent for "a new and improved fire-kindler can containing the composition" (lines 15-16) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new fire-kindler design, including illustrations.
Date: December 20, 1892
Creator: Rogers, Silas M. N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Machine. (open access)

Quilting-Machine.

Patent for a quilting-machine that is meant to "improve the construction of quilting attachments for sewing machines, and to provide a simple and inexpensive one, which will be capable of lateral vibrations, longitudinal movement, and a rotary motion, in order that any form of design may be worked" (lines 12-17).
Date: November 20, 1894
Creator: Click, Washington B. & Click, Isaac A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History