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Corn Planter (open access)

Corn Planter

Patent for a corn planter. This invention is simple and compact and does not require manual actuation of the drum for the dropping mechanism. It can be used for corn and similar seeds, including cotton and seeds with fibrous coating. Illustration included.
Date: November 13, 1906
Creator: Robinson, Charles William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Documents pertaining to B. C. Wallace as the receiver of the estate and guardian of Campbell minors, cause no. 532, 1896-1904 (open access)

Documents pertaining to B. C. Wallace as the receiver of the estate and guardian of Campbell minors, cause no. 532, 1896-1904

Documents from the Henderson County Court dating from 1896 to 1904 relating to the appointment of B. C. Wallace as receiver of the estate and guardian for orphan minors W. E. Campbell, May A. Campbell, and Tommie H. Campbell. Included are application, appointment of receiver, oaths and bonds, decree appointing guardian, public notices, inventory, annual reports, orders and reports related to sale and disposition of certain properties, final account, and decree approving final account and closing guardianship.
Date: 1896-11-13/1904-12-08
Creator: Warren, B. F. & Carroll, W. L.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. H. C. Little, cause no. 716, 1870 (open access)

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. H. C. Little, cause no. 716, 1870

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. H. C. Little, accused of aggravated assault and battery on the person of Martha Little, filed November 17, 1870. Documents include a letter of indictment signed by grand jury foreman A. Tannihill, requests for witnesses, an alias capias, and capiases.
Date: 1870-11-17/1873-02-10
Creator: Thompson, Jeff. E.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. James Vaughan, principal, William Carmichael, security, cause no. 802, 1874 (open access)

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. James Vaughan, principal, William Carmichael, security, cause no. 802, 1874

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. James Vaughan, principal, William Carmichael, security, accused of an affray, filed March 10, 1874. Documents include answers and a scire facias.
Date: 1872-11/1874-03-10
Creator: Richardson, M. E.; Thompson, Jeff. E. & Bishop, J. B.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. John McDonald, cause no. 720, 1877 (open access)

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. John McDonald, cause no. 720, 1877

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. John McDonald, accused of disturbing religious worship, filed November 19, 1870. Documents include a letter of indictment signed by the grand jury foreman, capiases, and requests for witnesses. There are two other papers signed by the county clerk that charge McDonald with assault to murder.
Date: 1870-11-19/1872-11
Creator: Thompson, Jeff. E.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. Stephen Brindley, cause no. 713, 1873 (open access)

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. Stephen Brindley, cause no. 713, 1873

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. Stephen Brindley, accused of theft of gilding, filed November 6, 1873. Documents include a letter of indictment signed by grand jury foreman A. Tannihill, alias capiases, requests for witnesses, and capiases.
Date: 1870-11-24/1873-11-06
Creator: Thompson, Jeff. E. & Richardson, M. E.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. W. G. Johnson, cause no. 717, 1870 (open access)

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. W. G. Johnson, cause no. 717, 1870

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. W. G. Johnson, accused of assault with intent to murder, filed November 16, 1870. Documents include a letter of indictment signed by grand jury foreman A. Tannihill, requests for witnesses, a capias, and an alias capias.
Date: 1870-11-16/1872-07-08
Creator: Thompson, Jeff. E.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

Henderson County

Map of Henderson County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: November 4, 1856
Creator: Wilke, H.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Athens Tile & Pottery Company, November 6, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Athens Tile & Pottery Company, November 6, 1951]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Athens Tile & Pottery Company discussing a missing invoice for Mr. Kempner's order of pots that was delivered to Bradshaw's Nurseries. He also brings up discrepancies with what he ordered and what arrived.
Date: November 6, 1951
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Athens Tile & Pottery Company, November 10, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Athens Tile & Pottery Company, November 10, 1951]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Athens Tile & Pottery Company thanking for the invoice covering the shortage of flower pots.
Date: November 10, 1951
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from M. K. Miller to Daniel W. Kempner, November 1951] (open access)

[Letter from M. K. Miller to Daniel W. Kempner, November 1951]

Letter from M. K. Miller to Daniel W. Kempner discussing an invoice for Mr. Kempner's order and informing him that they have no way of knowing what happened to the pots he ordered but did not receive but deduced it from the price for him.
Date: November 1951
Creator: Miller, M. K.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Horses] captions transcript

[News Clip: Horses]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 30, 1982
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Horses folo] captions transcript

[News Clip: Horses folo]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 30, 1982, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: TP and L] (open access)

[News Script: TP and L]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the construction of a new power plant.
Date: November 15, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: TP&L Plant] (open access)

[News Script: TP&L Plant]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about an announcement to build a multi-million dollar Generating plant.
Date: November 15, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Truck train wreck] (open access)

[News Script: Truck train wreck]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about an oil tanker truck and a train collide killing three crewmen in Tyler, Texas.
Date: November 23, 1962
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bertha Rosenzweig, November 15, 1979 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Bertha Rosenzweig, November 15, 1979

Interview with Bertha Rosenzweig, co-founder of Tex-Glass, Inc. in Decatur, Texas. The interview includes Rosenzweig's personal experiences about her education in New York, and having a teaching career. Rosenzweig talks about her family background, her knowledge of her husband's family background and his life in Europe during the Hitler era, his technical training, work in glass factories, starting his own glass factory in Vienna, fleeing Nazis and migrating to Greece, the Jewish underground in Central Europe, fleeing to Egypt, Palestine, and his migration to the U.S. Additionally, Rosenzweig talks about their meeting and marriage, work in Canada and Mexico, opening a glass factory in Athens, Texas, moving to Decatur, employee relations, products and the production process, the distribution system, financing methods, her managing the business, sale of the business, and reparations from the Austrian government.
Date: November 15, 1979
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Rosenzweig, Bertha
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Planter. (open access)

Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the beam, of a hopper having the front hole, the elastic standards, beam bows or braces, and the eye-rod . . . [as well as] the handles of a planter, secured detachably in a clip on the end of the beam and just within the front of the hopper" (lines 71-77).
Date: November 16, 1886
Creator: Pulley, David F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Pneumatic Toy. (open access)

Rotary Pneumatic Toy.

Patent for improvements in rotary pneumatic toys, "which can be carried by a child and caused to rotate by the action of the air when the toy is carried rapidly or if the air is violently circulated" (lines 11-15) including illustrations.
Date: November 17, 1986
Creator: Laube, Godfried
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7474 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7474

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Does the Commissioners' Court of Henderson County have the authority to employ an attorney to act as legal adviser for the Court and expend county funds to pay him a monthly fee or salary for said services?
Date: November 8, 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History