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The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 16, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 10, 1886
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 10, 1886
Creator:
Cox & Lewis
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 20, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 25, 1886
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 25, 1886
Creator:
Cox & Lewis
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Jeremiah Osterhout to Paul Osterhout, April 13, 1886]
Letter from John Jeremiah Osterhout to Paul Osterhout. John, signed as Jerry, sent his brother a money order from him and Gertrude to help Paul.
Date:
April 13, 1886
Creator:
Osterhout, John Jeremiah
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Ora Osterhout to Paul Osterhout, April 14, 1886]
Letter from Ora Osterhout to her brother, Paul Osterhout, with news from home. She expressed concern over her brother's profession as a doctor since recently, a doctor in Belton was blamed for the death of a patient. Among other local gossip, Ora mentioned that their brother, Jeremiah, and his wife did not allow each other to leave without the other as they were jealous of them talking to members of the opposite sex.
Date:
April 14, 1886
Creator:
Osterhout, Ora
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "is to provide a device to enable the shovels of the cultivator to yield when they strike an immovable object—such as a stone or stump—and thereby prevent the cultivator-shovels from being broken, and more especially in time-saving in readjusting the shovel for plowing" (lines 14-20).
Date:
April 13, 1886
Creator:
Eubanks, Thomas Jefferson
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 of a draw-head, the laterally-movable pin-retaining arms supported therein, and a pivoted wing normally held in the path of an approaching link, and arranged to distend the arms to drop the pin when acted on by the links" (lines 30-35).
Date:
April 6, 1886
Creator:
Thomason, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History