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Automatic Rotary Hydraulic Casing-Spear. (open access)

Automatic Rotary Hydraulic Casing-Spear.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Automatic Rotary Hydraulic Casing-Spears" (lines 5-7) which "relates to improvements in well-boring apparatus" (lines 13-14).
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for a baling press, designed so that the feeding and baling of cotton or straw is performed automatically, Illustrations included.
Date: December 17, 1907
Creator: Cumpston, Frederick B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boat (open access)

Boat

Patent for a sportsman boat. It can be lowered or raised in adjacent to the water level based on the intentions of the user.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Richardson, William A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists of "a yielding draw-head having a horizontally-moveable coupling-pin and a pivoted lever connected to said pin, of a rotatable latching-plate connected with said lever by a rod or chain, a spring for acting on the pin-lever, and a spring-catch for engaging the latch-plate, said catch and latch-plate being disengaged by the pressure of the draw-head in the act of coupling, thereby releasing the retracted coupling-pin and allowing it to automatically engage the opposite draw-head" (lines 14-24).
Date: December 7, 1886
Creator: Sessions, Egbert G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corsicana Democrat and Truth (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 10, 1925 (open access)

Corsicana Democrat and Truth (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 10, 1925

Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date: December 10, 1925
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corsicana Democrat and Truth (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 17, 1925 (open access)

Corsicana Democrat and Truth (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 17, 1925

Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date: December 17, 1925
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corsicana Democrat and Truth (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1925 (open access)

Corsicana Democrat and Truth (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1925

Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date: December 24, 1925
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corsicana Democrat and Truth (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 9, 1926 (open access)

Corsicana Democrat and Truth (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 9, 1926

Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date: December 9, 1926
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corsicana Democrat and Truth (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1927 (open access)

Corsicana Democrat and Truth (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1927

Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date: December 1, 1927
Creator: Colquitt, Pierce
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corsicana Democrat and Truth (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 8, 1927 (open access)

Corsicana Democrat and Truth (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 8, 1927

Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date: December 8, 1927
Creator: Colquitt, Pierce
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corsicana Democrat and Truth (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 15, 1927 (open access)

Corsicana Democrat and Truth (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 15, 1927

Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date: December 15, 1927
Creator: Colquitt, Pierce
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corsicana Democrat and Truth (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1927 (open access)

Corsicana Democrat and Truth (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1927

Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date: December 22, 1927
Creator: Colquitt, Pierce
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, December 6, 1889 (open access)

Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, December 6, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 6, 1889
Creator: Miller, G. P.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, December 13, 1889 (open access)

Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, December 13, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 13, 1889
Creator: Miller, G. P.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, December 20, 1889 (open access)

Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, December 20, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 20, 1889
Creator: Miller, G. P.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, December 27, 1889 (open access)

Corsicana Observer. (Corsicana, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, December 27, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Corsicana, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 27, 1889
Creator: Miller, G. P.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Earth Auger. (open access)

Earth Auger.

Patent for a new and improved earth auger. This design "relates to machines for boring post-holes, &c.; and it consists especially in certain improvements in the frame and operating mechanism" (lines 21-24).
Date: December 13, 1881
Creator: Blake, Llewellyn A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Clock (open access)

Electric Clock

Patent for an electric clock. Illustration included.
Date: December 25, 1906
Creator: Iversen, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Frontier Times, Volume 1, Number 3, December 1923 (open access)

Frontier Times, Volume 1, Number 3, December 1923

Magazine containing stories and articles about frontier history, border tragedy, and pioneer achievement. Included are articles about the colonists of Navarro and Denton counties, reminiscences of a Texas Ranger, the capture of Cynthia Ann Parker, and James R. Moss, a pioneer Llano citizen.
Date: December 1923
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Swivel (open access)

Hydraulic Swivel

Patent for improvements in the construction and design of hydraulic swivels.
Date: December 17, 1907
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Swivel (open access)

Hydraulic Swivel

Patent for a hydraulic swivel made to control back pressure and designed to be resistant to wear. Illustrations included.
Date: December 10, 1907
Creator: Johnston, Horace G. & Norris, Joseph B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implement for Tightening and Splicing Fencing-Wire. (open access)

Implement for Tightening and Splicing Fencing-Wire.

Patent for a tool that tightens wires and takes up slack on wire fences. It also splices and joins wires together. The invention has "a novel construction whereby a loop is formed in the strand of wire which is to be tightened and the parts of such wire adjacent to the loop and brought into parallelism so that they may be intertwisted accurately and neatly" (lines 20-25). It also forms loops of different sizes in the wire.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Sessions, Egbert G. & Embrey, Leonard B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Presses for Hay, Cotton, Etc. (open access)

Improvement in Presses for Hay, Cotton, Etc.

Patent for the improvement of presses for hay and cotton, by means of a screw. It includes an illustration and description.
Date: December 27, 1870
Creator: Cunningham, Matthew G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, December 8, 1944 (open access)

The Kerens Tribune (Kerens, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, December 8, 1944

Weekly newspaper from Kerens, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 8, 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History