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Documents pertaining to the case of The State of Texas vs. William Boles, S. E. Boles, and John Boles, cause no. 1753 and no. 906, 1885 (open access)

Documents pertaining to the case of The State of Texas vs. William Boles, S. E. Boles, and John Boles, cause no. 1753 and no. 906, 1885

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. William Boles, S. E. Boles, and John Boles, accused of theft of cotton seeds, filed October 16, 1891. Documents include a letter signed by the judge presiding, arrest warrants, subpoenas, a letter signed by the defense attorney, and an appearance bond. Some files are also labeled as cause numbers 1752 and 905
Date: 1891
Creator: Adam, S.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 30, 1891 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 30, 1891

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 30, 1891
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 7, 1891 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 7, 1891

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 7, 1891
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 14, 1891 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 14, 1891

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 1891
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 21, 1891 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 21, 1891

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 21, 1891
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 19, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 28, 1891 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 19, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 28, 1891

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 28, 1891
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 20, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 4, 1891 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 20, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 4, 1891

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 4, 1891
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 11, 1891 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 11, 1891

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 11, 1891
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 18, 1891 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 18, 1891

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 18, 1891
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 25, 1891 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 25, 1891

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 25, 1891
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 2, 1891 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 2, 1891

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 2, 1891
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 25, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 9, 1891 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 25, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 9, 1891

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 9, 1891
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 16, 1891 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 16, 1891

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 16, 1891
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 27, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 23, 1891 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 27, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 23, 1891

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 23, 1891
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for improvements in cotton-chopper by using a combination of revolving disk, fender disks, a rotary shaft and cultivator-blades to construct a machine that is able to thin and cultivate cotton. Illustration is included.
Date: October 6, 1891
Creator: Allen, George Washington
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrode for Secondary Batteries. (open access)

Electrode for Secondary Batteries.

Patent for improvements in the manufacture of electrodes for storage batteries or accumulators by using “two corresponding plates, each having flanges on three sides of one face, said plates being united to form a central space open at top by securing together corresponding flanges on the respective plates.” (Lines 5-9, page 2) Illustration is included.
Date: June 23, 1891
Creator: Anderson, Boyd
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for improvements in animal-traps that would be capable of catching two animals; to set the trap, bait is placed upon the hooked ends of the bait-hooks, the jaws are elevated and retained in a position by the link-catches, which have the lower hooked ends engaging the trigger, which has its free end engaging the eye at the inner end of the bait hooks, thus setting the trap, (lines 66-73) ready to catch animals. Illustration is included.
Date: May 5, 1891
Creator: Anderson, Henry Clay
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Fastener. (open access)

Hame-Fastener.

Patent for a new kind of fastener for draft animal harnesses that is inexpensive and has no springs or buckles. Illustration included.
Date: November 17, 1891
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hame. (open access)

Hame.

Patent for a hame of simple and inexpensive construction, including illustrations.
Date: November 17, 1891
Creator: Anderson, Lee; Broad, Thomas & Martin, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for improvement in automatic car-couplings “in which the coupling-pin (worked by a rope or chain) is guided in a vertical tube extending upward from the draw-head, and is supported in position for coupling by a block sliding with the draw-head,” (lines 9-14) includes illustration.
Date: April 14, 1891
Creator: Angerstein, John F.
Object Type: Patent
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
Machinery For Pressing Cotton. (open access)

Machinery For Pressing Cotton.

Patent for improvements in machinery for facilitating the pressing of cotton; and it relates particularly to mechanism in which cylinders and pistons are used, under the influence of fluid or liquid, such as steam, air, water, or gas under pressure to operate the follower-block of a bailing-press. (Lines 12-18) Illustration is included.
Date: May 5, 1891
Creator: Bachman, Joseph A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Gin. (open access)

Saw-Gin.

Patent for improvements in cotton-gins by having two compartments, one above the other. “The upper roll-box being especially adapted to raw cotton and the lower one to half-ginned cotton as the lint and seeds are only partially separated in one roll-box and are then delivered into another, where the operation is completed.” (Lines 24-29) This operation used less time to separate the seed and lint. Illustration is included.
Date: October 27, 1891
Creator: Bachman, Joseph A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Mop and Brush. (open access)

Convertible Mop and Brush.

Patent for improvements in convertible mops and brushes by using a “combination of the fountain-handle, the bail/frame secured thereto and provided with a rubber strip at its lower edge, and the mop secured to the bail/frame.” (Lines 3-7, p.2) Illustration is included.
Date: April 7, 1891
Creator: Bagby, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History