[Letter from Mary L. Woods to Celia Carroll, June 28, 1859] (open access)

[Letter from Mary L. Woods to Celia Carroll, June 28, 1859]

Letter from Mary L. Woods to Celia Carroll telling of a murder and upcoming trial in Louisiana. She also lists recent marriages and deaths, and mentions that her father is running for County Surveyor in the next election.
Date: June 28, 1859
Creator: Woods, Mary L.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Second Page of Letter from Mary L. Woods to Celia Carroll, June 28, 1859] (open access)

[Second Page of Letter from Mary L. Woods to Celia Carroll, June 28, 1859]

Second page of a letter from Mary L. Woods to Celia Carroll telling of a murder and upcoming trial in Louisiana. She also lists recent marriages and deaths, and mentions that her father is running for County Surveyor in the next election.
Date: June 28, 1859
Creator: Woods, Mary L.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Joseph A. Carroll to Celia Carroll, June 22, 1861] (open access)

[Letter from Joseph A. Carroll to Celia Carroll, June 22, 1861]

Letter from Joseph A. Carroll to Celia Carroll telling her of his arrival at Fort Arbuckle, and his election to Second Lieutenant. He also tells her who she can board with in Denton.
Date: June 22, 1861
Creator: Carroll, Joseph A.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Joseph A. Carroll to Celia Carroll, June 18, 1863] (open access)

[Letter from Joseph A. Carroll to Celia Carroll, June 18, 1863]

Letter from Joseph A. Carroll to his wife Celia Carroll detailing a battle in which he fought.
Date: June 18, 1863
Creator: Carroll, Joseph A.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Joseph A. Carroll to Celia Carroll, June 18, 1864] (open access)

[Letter from Joseph A. Carroll to Celia Carroll, June 18, 1864]

Letter from Joseph A. Carroll to Celia Carroll telling her that there is little news, although his regiment recently captured a boat on the Arkansas River.
Date: June 18, 1864
Creator: Carroll, Joseph A.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Denton Monitor. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 13, 1868 (open access)

The Denton Monitor. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 13, 1868

Weekly newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 13, 1868
Creator: Burnett, Tom R.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Denton Monitor. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 20, 1868 (open access)

The Denton Monitor. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 20, 1868

Weekly newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 20, 1868
Creator: Burnett, Tom R.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Sower, Planter, Cultivator, Scraper, and Gang-Plow. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Sower, Planter, Cultivator, Scraper, and Gang-Plow.

Patent for "a strong, simple, durable, and effective machine, which shall be so constructed and arranged that it may be readily adjusted for use as a gang plow, seed-sower, seed-planter, cultivator, and cotton-scrape, and which will do its work thoroughly and well in either capacity." Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 7, 1870
Creator: Eddleman, James P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Water-Elevators. (open access)

Improvement in Water-Elevators.

Patent for "an endless chain of buckets on a reel for working them, so contrived that it tilts the buckets so that they empty and pass the spout without revolving, whereby the contrivance is simpler and better than when they are made to revolve, and the buckets are linked together by a novel contrivance for carrying them, to enter the water bottom downward, and to allow the air to escape when filling." (Lines 5-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 6, 1876
Creator: Smith, Edgar J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock Car. (open access)

Stock Car.

Patent for an improved stock-car for transporting cattle and horses on railways.
Date: June 28, 1881
Creator: Jones, Jeremiah C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Bucket. (open access)

Well Bucket.

Patent for a new and improved well-bucket. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the upper bucket and the lower external bucket, the former having a central vertical tube adapted to receive the rod for operating the valve of the lower bucket, and the spring arranged around the said rod" (lines 5-10).
Date: June 23, 1885
Creator: Arnold, James S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
I.O.O.F. Cemetery Deed (open access)

I.O.O.F. Cemetery Deed

The deed contains C. C. Bell's purchase of the Odd Fellows' Cemetery, located in Denton, Texas, for the sum of twenty dollars on June 13th, 1887. The deed was drafted and signed in the Denton Lodge, No. 82, of the I.O.O.F.
Date: 1887-06-13?
Creator: Long, D.R.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press. (open access)

Hay Press.

Patent for a new and improved hay-press. This design consists, "in combination with the plungers and their rack-stems, the cog, the brackets . . . curved as described, and having the flange, combined with the ways . . . and the anti-friction rolls, operating each on the rear of one of the rack-stems . . . [which are] combined with the brackets, detachably secured to the press, their forward ends constituting in connection with the rear plate of the press guide-ways for said stems" (lines 80-100).
Date: June 14, 1887
Creator: Cope, Mason L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Harvesters and Mowing Machines. (open access)

Attachment for Harvesters and Mowing Machines.

Patent for a new and improved attachment for harvesters and mowers. This design is "to afford means whereby a mowing or reaping machine may be enabled easily to travel over soft or marshy ground; . . . the novelty consists in a shoe proper for each driving-wheel of the machine, each shoe made of a curved piece of metal . . . and provided with a long narrow slot running lengthwise of the shoe, . . . and so adapted that under each wheel one of the shoes shall be placed in such a manner that one of the shoes shall pass through the longitudinal slot in the shoe" (lines 19-32).
Date: June 28, 1887
Creator: Jones, Jeremiah C. & Marshall, Sumner B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 2, 1888 (open access)

The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 2, 1888

Weekly newspaper from Pilot Point, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 2, 1888
Creator: Cadwell, H. D. & Moffitt, D. J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 9, 1888 (open access)

The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 9, 1888

Weekly newspaper from Pilot Point, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 9, 1888
Creator: Cadwell, H. D. & Moffitt, D. J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 19, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 16, 1888 (open access)

The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 19, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 16, 1888

Weekly newspaper from Pilot Point, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 16, 1888
Creator: Cadwell, H. D. & Moffitt, D. J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 23, 1888 (open access)

The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 23, 1888

Weekly newspaper from Pilot Point, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 23, 1888
Creator: Cadwell, H. D. & Moffitt, D. J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 30, 1888 (open access)

The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 30, 1888

Weekly newspaper from Pilot Point, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 30, 1888
Creator: Cadwell, H. D. & Moffitt, D. J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cleaner for Cotton-Gin Saws (open access)

Cleaner for Cotton-Gin Saws

Patent for "a new and improved cleaner for removing gummy and other matter from the saws of cotton-gins while the latter are running, thus permitting the saws to work very effectively in removing the lint from the seed" (lines 8-13).
Date: June 4, 1889
Creator: Godwin, John C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Padded Underwaist. (open access)

Padded Underwaist.

Patent for a new and improved padded underwaist. This design "has for its object to provide a waist to be worn by persons who are thin or emaciated, to beautify the appearance, to increase the breadth from shoulder to shoulder, and to make the form look plump and round" (lines 14-18). To this end it is "provided upon its inner surface with pockets extending down the middle of the back, on the breasts, around the lower edge, down the sleeves, and down the sides beneath the arms, the pockets down the sleeves and beneath the arms being united together" (lines 90-95).
Date: June 18, 1889
Creator: McDowell, Mary D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 16, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 7, 1890 (open access)

The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 16, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 7, 1890

Weekly newspaper from Pilot Point, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 7, 1890
Creator: Moffitt, D. J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. [17], Ed. 1 Saturday, June 14, 1890 (open access)

The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. [17], Ed. 1 Saturday, June 14, 1890

Weekly newspaper from Pilot Point, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 14, 1890
Creator: Moffitt, D. J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 21, 1890 (open access)

The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 21, 1890

Weekly newspaper from Pilot Point, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 21, 1890
Creator: Moffitt, D. J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History