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Wichita County
Cadastral map of Wichita County, Texas in the Panhandle Plains region. Several features are marked including the center of the county. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
November 8, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 213, Ed. 1, Saturday, November 12, 1881
Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 12, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 216, Ed. 1, Tuesday, November 15, 1881
Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 15, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 217, Ed. 1, Wednesday, November 16, 1881
Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 16, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 220, Ed. 1, Saturday, November 19, 1881
Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 19, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 221, Ed. 1, Sunday, November 20, 1881
Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 20, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 226, Ed. 1, Saturday, November 26, 1881
Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 26, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 227, Ed. 1, Sunday, November 27, 1881
Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 27, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 228, Ed. 1, Tuesday, November 29, 1881
Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 29, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 229, Ed. 1, Wednesday, November 30, 1881
Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 30, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 44, Ed. 1, Thursday, November 3, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 3, 1881
Creator:
Rankin, John G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 46, Ed. 1, Thursday, November 17, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 17, 1881
Creator:
Rankin, John G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 47, Ed. 1, Thursday, November 24, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 24, 1881
Creator:
Rankin, John G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Scraper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and scraper. This design consists in "the combination of a central beam having a slot at its rear end and a hook at its front end, the laterally-adjustable bars connected with said beam, the scraper-standards pivoted to the adjustable bars, the front clevis for the beam, and rear yoke or support having a transverse pin, and the suspension-chains with a supporting-frame" (lines 101-108).
Date:
November 1, 1881
Creator:
McCaskill, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carriage Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved carriage wheel. This design "consists in so constructing a carriage-wheel that the members thereof may be made interchangeable, and the whole may be made in a factory and shipped thence 'knocked down,' to be assembled and put together at any point to which the same may be shipped, not requiring, as is usual, the aid of a blacksmith or other skilled laborer" (lines 8-15).
Date:
November 8, 1881
Creator:
Clarke, George R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cylindrical Power.
Patent for a new and improved cylindrical power-source. This design "consists in the combination of a cylindrical slotted frame with a series of blades which are connected together in pairs, and which are alternately forced through the slots in the frame to receive the force of the wind or water and then retracted, so that they will offer no resistance during a portion of the revolution of the frame. . . . The object of [the] invention is to produce a motor which is adapted for use either as a wind-wheel or a water-wheel" (lines 13-27).
Date:
November 15, 1881
Creator:
Hutchinson, Thomas E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design calls for a tank of water to be buried in the ground and a collar of cheap material to be attached to the tank and placed over the mouth of an anthill. The concave nature of the collar prevents ants from climbing out of it, so they are forced into the water tank, where they drown; the design is cheaper and less toxic than previous designs.
Date:
November 22, 1881
Creator:
Arnett, Sandridge Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Treating Timber, Railway Ties, &c.
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for treating and preserving. This design "insure[s] the complete and perfect treatment or impregnation of timber of varying hardness and density, and to provide a portable organization of apparatus by which timber at various points or stations along the line of a railroad can be treated with great facility, efficiency, and economy" (lines 12-19).
Date:
November 22, 1881
Creator:
Kreuter, Hugh E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bench Plane.
Patent for a new and improved bench plane. This design "consists in a stirrup pivoted to the sides of the plane in such a manner that the traverse piece of the stirrup passes through a transverse groove in the under surface of the plane, this groove increasing in height toward the rear of the plane, so that when the plane is drawn backward it will be slightly raised by this stirrup, so that the cutting-edge of the plane-iron cannot slide on the board being planed" (lines 10-19).
Date:
November 22, 1881
Creator:
Sawyer, George Frederic
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design has a reversible trough, "having bearings for the detachable rollers and provided with a pair of flat springs affixed rigidly to opposite sides and at opposite ends of the trough, hooked screw-bolts having thumb-screws, and shaft of the main roller" (lines 1-6).
Date:
November 15, 1881
Creator:
Blake, Llewellyn A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hub Attaching Device.
Patent for a new and improved arrangement of axles and boxes for vehicles. This design calls for a solid axle formed with a shoulder and screw-threads, an axle-box closed at its outer and provided at the other end with an annular wall, a collar formed with internal screw-threads, annular flange, bearing surface, wrench-gripe surfaces, and a cap or ring (lines 16-22).
Date:
November 22, 1881
Creator:
Warth, August
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design "consists in the construction and combination of parts . . . [of] that class of machines for cutting cotton and other stalks, consisting, essentially, of parallel runners or beams carrying outwardly-projecting knives, which serve to cut the stalks as the machine is drawn over the ground" (lines 15-22).
Date:
November 29, 1881
Creator:
Bolliver, William S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Medical Compound.
Patent for medical compound that consists of whisky, gum-guaiacum, bromide of potassium that can be used for curing Rheumatism and Neuralgia.
Date:
November 29, 1881
Creator:
Eaves, William Hadsil
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved tire tightener. This design calls for a wheel with a gap rather than a continuous ring, so a double-threaded bolt in the gap may be tightened or loosened to contract or expand the wheel and subsequently the tire.
Date:
November 8, 1881
Creator:
Jones, James Daniel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History