Carpet Stretcher (open access)

Carpet Stretcher

Patent for carpet stretcher. Illustration included.
Date: October 17, 1905
Creator: Williams, Robbert D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Spur [and] The Dickens Items (Spur, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, October 23, 1925 (open access)

The Texas Spur [and] The Dickens Items (Spur, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, October 23, 1925

Weekly newspaper from Spur, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 23, 1925
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Dickens County

Map of the Panhandle Plains region covering Dickens County, Texas. The center of Dickens County is marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: October 2, 1891
Creator: Appell, P. F.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher (open access)

Wire-Stretcher

Patent for improvements to wire-stretchers, "particularly to those arranged for disposal upon wagons, and has for its object to provide a wire-stretcher with which a plurality of wires may be stretched simultaneously and which will be arranged to hold the spools containing the wire which is to be strung." (lines 12-18), including illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1905
Creator: Manning, Butler S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History