The Gonzales Inquirer (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 3, 1853 (open access)

The Gonzales Inquirer (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 3, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Gonzales, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 3, 1853
Creator: Smith S. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gonzales Inquirer. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 3, 1853 (open access)

The Gonzales Inquirer. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 3, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Gonzales, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 3, 1853
Creator: Smith, S. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gonzales Inquirer (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 10, 1853 (open access)

The Gonzales Inquirer (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 10, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Gonzales, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 10, 1853
Creator: Smith S. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gonzales Inquirer. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 10, 1853 (open access)

The Gonzales Inquirer. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 10, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Gonzales, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 10, 1853
Creator: Smith, S. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gonzales Inquirer (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 16, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 17, 1853 (open access)

The Gonzales Inquirer (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 16, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 17, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Gonzales, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 17, 1853
Creator: Smith S. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gonzales Inquirer. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 16, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 17, 1853 (open access)

The Gonzales Inquirer. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 16, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 17, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Gonzales, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 17, 1853
Creator: Smith, S. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gonzales Inquirer (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 24, 1853 (open access)

The Gonzales Inquirer (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 24, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Gonzales, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 24, 1853
Creator: Smith S. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gonzales Inquirer. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 24, 1853 (open access)

The Gonzales Inquirer. (Gonzales, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 24, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Gonzales, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 24, 1853
Creator: Smith, S. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in the Manufacture of Black Bottle-Glass. (open access)

Improvement in the Manufacture of Black Bottle-Glass.

Patent for manufacturing black bottle-glass by using "combination with other ingredients, an earthy slate of a peculiar character, called "clay-slate," for the purpose of furnishing the coloring-matter of the glass,as well as forming one of the bases of the glass itself."(line 10-15) Instruction only, no illustration.
Date: September 2, 1856
Creator: McCully, John F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fences. (open access)

Improvement in Fences.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in fences, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 23, 1873
Creator: King, Wilbur F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed Bottom. (open access)

Bed Bottom.

Patent for an improved bed bottom consisting of a series of hooks and eyes and wires with instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 28, 1886
Creator: Peacock, John Calvin; Graves, James Beard & Huffor, George Allin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopping, Planting, and Cultivating Machine (open access)

Cotton Chopping, Planting, and Cultivating Machine

Patent for "a machine of this class which shall be simple in construction, inexpensive, durable, and easily operated" (lines 11-14).
Date: September 24, 1889
Creator: Piland, David Winfield
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide Distributor. (open access)

Insecticide Distributor.

Patent for a new and improved bug sprayer. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a base, a bellows mounted thereon, a receptacle arranged in advance of the bellows and adapted to contain poison to be distributed, a forwardly-projecting discharge-tube, laterally-extending discharge-tubes comprising inner rigid sections, outer rigid sections having series of discharge-nozzles, and flexible couplings connecting the rigid sections, and the braces having their inner ends pivoted to the base and their outer ends pivoted to the outer sections and supporting the same" (lines 75-86).
Date: September 27, 1892
Creator: Talley, Reuben J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Meat-Tenderer. (open access)

Meat-Tenderer.

Patent for a meat-tenderer that "consists of two plates having a series of intermeshing teeth thereon and connected by suitable means to allow of automatic adjustment, the object of which is to provide a utensil for culinary purposes" (lines 11-15).
Date: September 12, 1893
Creator: Passmore, Benjamin Hill
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill. (open access)

Drill.

Patent for a simple, durable, and effective drill that "automatically expand[s] in the bottom of the well below the tubing, to cut a hole sufficiently large for the tubing without requiring a second drilling or reaming process" (lines 11-15).
Date: September 25, 1894
Creator: Lindholm, Charlie M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rope-Measuring Machine. (open access)

Rope-Measuring Machine.

Patent for a new and useful rope measuring machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 13, 1898
Creator: Hubbard, Ely Y. Seale
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Brake. (open access)

Vehicle-Brake.

Patent for a new and useful vehicle brake, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 20, 1898
Creator: Ramage, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a new and useful cotton chopper, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 5, 1899
Creator: McGillivray, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler (open access)

Boiler

Patent for a steam boiler "to provide simple and effective means for quickly generating steam by exposing the water fully to the caloric influence of the furnace or fire in the latter through the medium of radial tubular attachments" (lines 9-14), including illustrations.
Date: September 3, 1901
Creator: Hensley, Frank Alfred
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Signal-Lock for Mail-Boxes (open access)

Signal-Lock for Mail-Boxes

Patent for a signal lock for mailboxes used to "indicate the presence or absence of mail matter in the box" (lines 10-11).
Date: September 8, 1908
Creator: Patterson, Samuel & Wiseman, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer. (open access)

Insect-Destroyer.

Patent for boll-weevil insect destroyer to that can be attached to cotton cultivator device and used to remove and destroy boll weevils simultaneously to plowing the cotton with the cultivator.
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: McCracken, Ninian S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Class photograph with Refugio Diaz Zapata]

Photograph of a large class, with Refugio Diaz Zapata, 23 years old, visible on the far left side.
Date: September 16, 1924
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from R. S. Dilworth to I. H. Kempner and Daniel W. Kempner, September 13, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from R. S. Dilworth to I. H. Kempner and Daniel W. Kempner, September 13, 1945]

Letter from R. S. Dilworth to I. H. Kempner and Daniel W. Kempner asking the Kempner's who is in charge of the Todd Dry Dock Company and discussing Geo. Mercer's son being on the radio.
Date: September 13, 1945
Creator: Dilworth, R. S.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from I. H. Kempner to R. S. Dilworth, September 14, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to R. S. Dilworth, September 14, 1945]

Letter from I. H. Kempner to R. S. Dilworth discussing the heads of the Todd Dry Dock Company in Galveston which consist of L. R. Lawder, E. N. Smith, and L. E. Breese and informing Dilworth that if he needs more information to write Kempner and Kempner will see what he can find on the company.
Date: September 14, 1945
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History