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[Notarized affadavit regarding the birth of Thomas McGee Scott]
Notarized affadavit regarding the birth of Thomas McGee Scott, notarized by Kitty Keel.
Date:
June 10, 1918
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Judge David H. Scott to Cyrus I. Scofield, June 13, 1916]
Letter from D.H. Scott to C.I. Scofield, dated June 13, 1916. Mentions Brothers Hooper and Halliday, Mrs. Jamieson, Mr. and Mrs. Aberle.
Date:
June 13, 1916
Creator:
Scott, David Howell
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Nina S. Wells to Carolyn Street Scott, June 14, 1935]
Letter from Nina S. Wells to Carolyn Street Scott, June 14, 1935, thanking Mrs. Scott for her help in establishing the local public library.
Date:
June 14, 1935
Creator:
Wells, Nina S.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the fork-shaped draw-heads having under-beveled bearings between the branches, the slotted coupler-bars having hook-lugs in front of the slots and adapted to interlock, the side bearings or ledges on each side of each hook-lug, designed to support the sides of the bar and to allow the hook-lugs to enter the slots in coupling" (lines 19-27).
Date:
June 20, 1882
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists "[i]n combination with the base, the frame having the cross-bars, churn provided with a dasher-shaft, a second shaft passing through cross-bars and connected with the dasher-shaft, pinions . . . secured to the shaft and adapted to rest upon the cross-bars . . . a[nother] shaft journaled in [one of] the cross-bar[s], and a mutilated gear engaging the pinions" (lines 16-24).
Date:
June 5, 1888
Creator:
Crawford, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine
Patent for "an adding-machine which, while being constructed of but comparatively few parts, will be so adjusted as arranged as to allow an operator to make rapid and correct calculations; furthermore, to produce an adding-machine in which the operator will be enabled to detect immediately any mistake which he may have made, and, finally, to produce a simple, efficient, and effective adding-machine" (lines 13-22).
Date:
June 25, 1889
Creator:
Stinson, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the draw-head having the downwardly and forwardly inclined floor and the floor slot or opening, of the coupling-bar having a curved or angular lever secured to its rear end and extending first downward through said opening and then under the draw-head" (lines 82-88).
Date:
June 30, 1885
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for cars. This design "relates to that class of couplers that are self-couplers; and it consists of an open-top hook-shaped draw-bar provided with a pivoted T-shaped vertically-moving coupling-bar, and provided also with an end socket for using the ordinary coupling link" (lines 7-12).
Date:
June 21, 1881
Creator:
McCray, John Henry Branic
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turping Implement.
Patent for a new and improved turfing implement. This design "is to produce a . . . handle . . . together with improved means for threading the needle (lines 10-12). It consists "with a tubular needle having a longitudinal slit, the outer end of the needle being open and its upper side being formed into a tongue near its inner end, which is bent upwardly and whose extremity projects into the needle, of a handle into which the needle is passed and a presser-foot adjustably connected at its inner end to the handle and having its outer end turned up and provided with an opening" (lines 85-93).
Date:
June 21, 1892
Creator:
Robinson, Laurence Benjamin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the radial arms of the wheel-frame and the vertical pivot-posts thereon, the sails or fans pivoted to said posts, the pivoted detents, and the pivoted governing-levers to which said detents are connected, said levers carrying adjustable weights" (lines 16-23).
Date:
June 5, 1883
Creator:
Witherspoon, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spring-Hinges.
Patent for a new spring hinge design which will "either open or close the door or gate after it has passed an angle of forty-five degrees" (lines 20-22) including illustrations.
Date:
June 24, 1879
Creator:
Barry, William G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn-Poppers.
Patent for a corn-popper with design specifications and a description for usage, including illustrations.
Date:
June 18, 1878
Creator:
Forsyth, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace Lock for Harness.
Patent for a new and improved trace-lock for harnesses. This design consists in "the combination of the bolt, the metal strap secured to the trace, provided with the recess, the projection, and the slot having the enlarged opening, the locking-plate pivoted on the recess having the opening, and the spring" (lines 72-77).
Date:
June 26, 1888
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock.
Patent for a new and improved nut-lock. This design consists in "the plate having the outstanding lugs, the retaining arms pivoted to one of said lugs, the detent between said lugs, and the locking-bolts having the head portion and the corrugated shank" (lines 64-68).
Date:
June 19, 1888
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "a draft-bar, a connecting rod or bar which connects the two beams together at any suitable distance . . . vertical standards which are secured to the rear ends of the beams, adjustable connecting-bars . . . and a connecting-rod which connects the bars together in a line with the beams . . . to loosely attach two cultivators to a single draft-bar, and then connect these two cultivators together . . . [so] each of the cultivators has a universal movement independently of the other, and yet they are always kept at about the same distance apart" (lines 15-32).
Date:
June 11, 1889
Creator:
De Witt, Martin V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detergent Compound.
Patent for an all-purpose detergent composed of water, lye, ammonia, borax, indigo, and mountain balm. Includes instructions.
Date:
June 11, 1895
Creator:
Fair, William Brownlow
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Tool
Patent for a dental tool that is to "prevent the loss of amalgam" (p. 2).
Date:
June 19, 1888
Creator:
Morris, James P., of Paris, Texas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Star. (Paris, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 19, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 21, 1851
Weekly newspaper from Paris, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 21, 1851
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Star. (Paris, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 20, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 29, 1851
Weekly newspaper from Paris, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 29, 1851
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Star. (Paris, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 14, 1851
Weekly newspaper from Paris, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 14, 1851
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Star. (Paris, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 7, 1851
Weekly newspaper from Paris, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 7, 1851
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for a crude oil burner. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 7, 1910
Creator:
Shaeffer, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Bait
Patent for an artificial bait. Illustration included.
Date:
June 16, 1908
Creator:
Caldwell, Charley D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn
Patent for a churn. This invention consists of a vertically disposed rotatable dasher. Illustration included.
Date:
June 28, 1904
Creator:
Lavender, Samuel C.; Chennault, Steven A. & Chennault, Thomas H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History