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Attachment For Sawmill-Dogs (open access)

Attachment For Sawmill-Dogs

Patent for new and useful improvements in attachments for Sawmill-Dogs. This invention relates to sawmill dogs, and has for its primary object to provide a simple and efficient device for retaining the actuating lever of a lever mechanism in adjusted position.
Date: May 29, 1917
Creator: Lynch, C. W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Smithville District Seniority List: Firemen, October 1915 (open access)

Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Smithville District Seniority List: Firemen, October 1915

List of firemen employed in the Trinity Division of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad South Texas Division as of October 1915. It includes the name of each person and employment date, with the most senior person listed first.
Date: October 1, 1915
Creator: Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad. South Texas Division.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Referendum Ballot on Consolidation] (open access)

[Referendum Ballot on Consolidation]

Text of a referendum ballot documenting a unanimous vote of the firemen to consolidate the 11th and 12th districts of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company, signed by 10 men.
Date: November 1, 1915
Creator: Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company. 12th District.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from G. H. Ramey to M. O. Laisure, July 6, 1917] (open access)

[Letter from G. H. Ramey to M. O. Laisure, July 6, 1917]

Letter from G. H. Ramey to M. O. Laisure acknowledging the receipt of a letter from July 2nd, and mentions that the referendum vote of the twelfth district against consolidation of the eleventh and twelfth district is enclosed.
Date: July 6, 1917
Creator: Ramey, G. H.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to The General Grievance Committee, July 6, 1917] (open access)

[Letter to The General Grievance Committee, July 6, 1917]

Letter to The General Grievance Committee discussing the opposition of the consolidation of the eleventh and twelfth seniority districts, requesting that a former vote from November 1915 be withdrawn.
Date: July 6, 1917
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from G. H. Ramey to M. O. Laisure, June 28, 1917] (open access)

[Letter from G. H. Ramey to M. O. Laisure, June 28, 1917]

Letter from G. H. Ramey to M. O. Laisure discussing the need for notification to hold an application of the proposed consolidation of the eleventh and twelfth seniority districts, as it was rejected by a unanimous vote.
Date: June 28, 1917
Creator: Ramey, G. H.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Trinity Tribune (Trinity, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 35, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 8, 1914 (open access)

The Trinity Tribune (Trinity, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 35, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 8, 1914

Weekly newspaper from Trinity, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 8, 1914
Creator: Adams, Louis F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Trinity Tribune (Trinity, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 18, 1918 (open access)

The Trinity Tribune (Trinity, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 18, 1918

Weekly newspaper from Trinity, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 18, 1918
Creator: Adams, Louis F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Trinity Tribune (Trinity, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 1, 1918 (open access)

The Trinity Tribune (Trinity, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 1, 1918

Weekly newspaper from Trinity, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 1, 1918
Creator: Adams, Louis F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Trinity Tribune (Trinity, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1918 (open access)

The Trinity Tribune (Trinity, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1918

Weekly newspaper from Trinity, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 25, 1918
Creator: Adams, Louis F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Groveton 1912 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Groveton in Trinity County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1912
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Groveton 1912 Sheet 4

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Groveton in Trinity County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1912
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Groveton 1912 Sheet 6

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Groveton in Trinity County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1912
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Groveton 1912 Sheet 5

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Groveton in Trinity County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1912
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Groveton 1912 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Groveton in Trinity County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1912
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Groveton 1912 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Groveton in Trinity County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1912
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Groveton 1912 Sheet 7

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Groveton in Trinity County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1912
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock. (open access)

Lock.

Patent for a keyed lock with "an improved mounting and arrangement of the locking tumblers whereby the same are properly held against displacement within the body of the lock so that they will properly engage with the locking bolt."
Date: July 13, 1915
Creator: Dunaway, Harrison
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Track-Cleaner. (open access)

Track-Cleaner.

Patent for a track cleaner "particularly adapted for use in saw mills, planing mills and the like, where it is necessary to keep tracks clear of shavings, saw dust and the like" (lines 15-18), includes illustrations.
Date: July 27, 1915
Creator: Lynch, Charley W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sleeping-Shirt. (open access)

Sleeping-Shirt.

Patent for a sleeping shirt designed to secure infants to the bed by removable shoulder flaps.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Johnson, Ira A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Coop. (open access)

Folding Coop.

Patent for a folding poultry coop "which may be quickly and readily knocked down and folded after the poultry have been removed therefrom" (lines 13-15).
Date: May 12, 1914
Creator: Caldwell, Robert Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Privy Seat. (open access)

Privy Seat.

Patent for a privy or toilet seat that is cheaper to manufacture and can be applied without extra tools.
Date: September 22, 1914
Creator: Smith, Bertram C. & Stevenson, William J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator. (open access)

Refrigerator.

Patent for a refrigerator, which is cooled by ice water that has melted out of the ice chamber going around all the refrigeration areas.
Date: January 17, 1911
Creator: Baker, Jesse J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sewing-Machine Attatchment (open access)

Sewing-Machine Attatchment

Patent for an attachment for sewing machines. Illustrations included.
Date: June 7, 1910
Creator: Griffin, Patrick
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History