Month

Language

El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. SIXTH YEAR, No. 141, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 15, 1886 (open access)

El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. SIXTH YEAR, No. 141, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 15, 1886

Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the body, or receptacle and its cover, of the dasher having a frame provided with inner apertured or perforated corner blocks and journaled in the body or receptacle, and a second apertured or perforated cross-shaped dasher journaled within the other dasher, the tripod-frame comprising the arched meeting side bars, and a third connecting-bar having an aperture, through which the upper end of the inner dasher-staff passes, the three-armed brace having a gudgeon or shaft" (lines 41-52).
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: Lines, Daniel & Long, Charles T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bee-Hive. (open access)

Bee-Hive.

Patent for a "new and useful improvement in bee-hives" (lines 5-6), with instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: McCullar, John Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 238, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 15, 1886 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 238, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 15, 1886

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 173, Ed. 1, Tuesday, June 15, 1886 (open access)

Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 173, Ed. 1, Tuesday, June 15, 1886

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: Bartow, John
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Daily Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 126, Ed. 1, Tuesday, June 15, 1886 (open access)

San Antonio Daily Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 126, Ed. 1, Tuesday, June 15, 1886

Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 51, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 15, 1886 (open access)

The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 51, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 15, 1886

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 1244, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 15, 1886 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 1244, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 15, 1886

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 320, Ed. 1, Tuesday, June 15, 1886 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 320, Ed. 1, Tuesday, June 15, 1886

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock. (open access)

Nut Lock.

Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design consists in "[a] lock . . . for a nut having a non-circular recess in its rear face, consisting of a washer having a non-circular opening whereby it may be keyed upon a bolt and fitted to enter the non-circular recess of a nut, and a securing-plate having an opening fitted to receive the locking-washer" (lines 81-87).
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: Unger, Louis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse Collar. (open access)

Horse Collar.

Patent for a new and improved horse collar. This design "is to supply a cheap, durable, easy fitting and self adjusting or flexible horse-collar for farm and other use, and which shall readily adapt itself to the form of the animal, and thereby obviate those abrasions which are so common with the use of a rigid and unyielding collar. To these and other ends [the] collar is made for the most part of what is known as "moss-yarn," with its strands or fibers arranged and the body of the collar subjected to pressure in a mold or press" (lines 9-20).
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: Bailey, William Luther; Knight, Leonard Thaddeus & Knight, Lenis Douglas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for "a new and useful improvement in car-couplings" (lines 5-6), with instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: Ferguson, George Jones
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coupling for Wagon Tires. (open access)

Coupling for Wagon Tires.

Patent for a new and improved tire tightener. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the wheel-fellies, one of which has a longitudinal socket, of the overlapping sections secured to the contiguous ends of the tire, and having projecting lugs, an adjusting-bolt carried by one of the lugs and bearing against the other lug, and a protecting-plate having a threaded opening for the passage of the bolt and interposed between the end of the felly in which [a] socket is formed, and the lug adjacent thereto" (lines 80-90).
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: Simon, Henry Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History