Dallas County Probate Case 1335: Cullen, Daniel (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 1335: Cullen, Daniel (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Cullen, Daniel (died May 9, 1891) and Mary H. Cullen (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1890-01-09/1892-09-29
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Extension-Table (open access)

Extension-Table

Patent for "an improvement in center tables, seeking to provide a simple convenient construction of extension-table, Which can be easily extended or contracted, by which the objectionable center leg can be dispensed with, and in which the main or center portion Will be firmly supported at all times" (lines 7-13).
Date: September 9, 1890
Creator: Smith, Lewis G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gage for Job Printing Presses. (open access)

Gage for Job Printing Presses.

Patent for a new and improved gage. This design consists in "the gage-bar provided at both ends with spring-clasps for engaging the platen, combined with gage-pins doubled upon themselves at their inner ends and engaging the gage bar and adjustable laterally" (lines 83-88).
Date: December 9, 1890
Creator: Jones, Charles E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Piston-Rod Packing (open access)

Piston-Rod Packing

Patent for "provide a metallic packing for piston-rods that is self-adjusting; secondly, to provide a packing the parts of which are so arranged as to avoid any escape of steam through the gland of the stuffing-box; thirdly, to provide a packing that does not require a lubricator; fourthly, to provide a packing that relieves the piston of all friction, except when steam is admitted to stuffing-box end of cylinder" (lines 19-27).
Date: May 9, 1890
Creator: Carlson, Frank A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury, Texas Farmers' Alliance Advocate. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1890 (open access)

The Southern Mercury, Texas Farmers' Alliance Advocate. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1890

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 9, 1890
Creator: Dixon, Sam H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury, Texas Farmers' Alliance Advocate. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 9, 1890 (open access)

The Southern Mercury, Texas Farmers' Alliance Advocate. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 9, 1890

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 9, 1890
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History