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The Ferris Wheel, Volume 4, Number 33, Saturday, May 1, 1897
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements.
Date:
May 1, 1897
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 6, Number 30[a], Saturday, April 8, 1899
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements.
Date:
April 1, 1899
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 6, Number 29[b], Saturday, April 1, 1899
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements. This issue includes a feature story "Society and The Dog" with an illustration--[p.2], and an article with illustrations about the home and art and artifact collections of Major-General Miles.--[p.3]
Date:
April 1, 1899
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 6, Number 42, Saturday, July 1, 1899
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements. This issue includes a 4th of July drawing.--[p.2]
Date:
July 1, 1899
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 6, Number 4, Saturday, October 1, 1898
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements.
Date:
October 1, 1898
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 6, Number 29[a], Saturday, April 1, 1899
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements.
Date:
April 1, 1899
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 6, Number 30[b], Saturday, April 8, 1899
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements. This issue contains an article about baseball news.--[p.2]
Date:
April 1, 1899
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ellis County
Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Ellis County, Texas. The north line of Mercer's Colony, which is also the south line of Peter's Colony, is shown on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
August 1, 1873
Creator:
Lucas, A. L.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ellis County
Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Ellis County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
November 1, 1857
Creator:
Martin, Joseph
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Putting Ties on Bales.
Patent for a new and improved machine for putting ties on bales. This design consists in a "frame-work which is to be placed across the bale . . . a shaft journaled in the frame and provided with a reel at each end, and pawls and ratchets with hooked ropes or chains . . . a double rope which is to be passed around the bale . . . and suitable U-shaped hooks . . . to provide a machine whereby cotton and other bales can be compressed at that point where the tie has come off, so as to allow another tie to be placed around the bale, and thus prevent the loss of material" (lines 16-33).
Date:
May 1, 1888
Creator:
Dunbar, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock.
Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design calls for a grooved nut and bolt to hold a pin between the two while the bolt is screwed onto the nut. Depending on whether or not the pin is in said grooves, the nut may or may not be removed from the bolt, which increases the worker's control over the nut and bolt and prevents unintended loosening.
Date:
March 1, 1881
Creator:
Bunker, John Williamson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swing.
Patent for a framed swing and churn attachment with seats, foot-rests, and spring lever, with illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1897
Creator:
Dietz, Thomas H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stem Winding and Setting Watch.
Patent for a new and useful winding and setting mechanism for watches, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 1, 1898
Creator:
Donnelly, Leo E. & Looney, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Carriage.
Patent for a new and useful plow carriage, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 1, 1898
Creator:
Shipman, Samuel H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Food-Tongs
Patent for
Date:
August 1, 1911
Creator:
Wheeler, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Single-Delivery Match-Safe.
Patent for a new and useful match safe, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 1, 1898
Creator:
Shipman, Samuel H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Detacher.
Patent for a new and useful horse detacher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 1, 1899
Creator:
Haines, Samuel Alfred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Killing Boll-Weevils
Patent for a "means for destroying weevils, vermin, and the like that thrive in cotton fields" (lines 10-11). Illustrations included.
Date:
September 1, 1908
Creator:
Rosson, William L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Hopple
Patent for a cultivator hopple. The hopple is a device for shifting beams of cultivators for the purpose of adjusting plows. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 1, 1907
Creator:
Cowart, Stephen A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. This invention is designed to mounted on a cultivator carriage. It also provides detachable devices by which the cotton chopping mechanism. Illustration included.
Date:
January 1, 1907
Creator:
Cowart, Stephen A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Ed. 1 Thursday, August 1, 2013
Daily newspaper from Ennis, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 1, 2013
Creator:
Todaro, Nick
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Ed. 1 Thursday, November 1, 2012
Daily newspaper from Ennis, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 1, 2012
Creator:
Todaro, Nick
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Ed. 1 Sunday, July 1, 2012
Daily newspaper from Ennis, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 1, 2012
Creator:
Todaro, Nick
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Daily newspaper from Ennis, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 1, 2013
Creator:
Todaro, Nick
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History