Corn-Husker. (open access)

Corn-Husker.

Patent for a "simple, inexpensive, and convenient hand-operated machine employing an oscillating knife or cutter for severing the stalk or stem and at at the same time clamping the shucks, so that the ear, when turned, will effect the bursting open of the shucks, thus permitting the ready removal of the ear" (lines 8-15).
Date: December 22, 1896
Creator: Willmann, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, April 22, 1870 (open access)

Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, April 22, 1870

Weekly German newspaper from New Braunfels, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 22, 1870
Creator: Lindheimer, Ferdinand J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, July 22, 1870 (open access)

Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, July 22, 1870

Weekly German newspaper from New Braunfels, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 22, 1870
Creator: Lindheimer, Ferdinand J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1869 (open access)

Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1869

Weekly German newspaper from New Braunfels, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 22, 1869
Creator: Lindheimer, Ferdinand J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, October 22, 1869 (open access)

Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. (New Braunfels, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, October 22, 1869

Weekly German newspaper from New Braunfels, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 22, 1869
Creator: Lindheimer, Ferdinand J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Tie Stretchers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Tie Stretchers.

Patent for an improvement for an instrument to stretch and tie a band around a cotton bale.
Date: August 22, 1871
Creator: Mather, Samuel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History