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Hornet's Nest (Gatesville, Tx.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Friday, November 1, 1957 (open access)

Hornet's Nest (Gatesville, Tx.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Friday, November 1, 1957

Gatesville High School's newspaper, from Gatesville, Texas, that includes school news written by students, anecdotes, articles by teachers, student birthdays, sports news, and advertisements.
Date: November 1, 1957
Creator: Barton, Virginia
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Autographic Register. (open access)

Autographic Register.

Patent for a device to register fares in situations where passengers pay to be transported from one location to another, specifically by train. The fare-collector needs a way to have accurate receipts as fares are collected. The invention is a "small portable ticket-holder and registering device (lines 38-39), that issues valid tickets "which will enable a conductor to keep a correct current amount of fares as received as well as a record of tickets sold and mileage traveled on same" (lines 41-45), and prevents dishonesty in fare-collectors.
Date: November 3, 1896
Creator: Bond, George D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
File. (open access)

File.

Patent for a new and improved file. This design "consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a file having its teeth cut to extend half-way across the face from each edge and at an angle to each other, and having a longitudinal groove in the middle of each face" (lines 22-27).
Date: November 2, 1886
Creator: Custer, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Separator (open access)

Cotton Seed Separator

Patent for cotton seed separator. This invention is designed to be a sifting machine for separating cotton seed between sizes. Illustration included.
Date: November 19, 1907
Creator: Edwards, Montieville M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Protractor (open access)

Protractor

Patent for a new protractor design that is “particularly to a protractor or gage for use by carpenters in cutting the rafters for a building roof” (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
Date: November 9, 1915
Creator: Ernest, Albert C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ptich-Board. (open access)

Ptich-Board.

Patent for pitch-board that is "an instrument adapted for use by carpenters and others, the same being so constructed as to serve as a rule, a square, or angle, and adapted to be arranged for indicating accurately any inclination or bevel that may be desired, and finally that is capable of being folded" (lines 6-12).
Date: November 13, 1894
Creator: Frasier, William E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hame Fastener (open access)

Hame Fastener

Patent for a new type of Hame Fastener that has adjustable hooks attached to it. These adjustable hooks allow for the use on hames that have the lower ends closer together. There are springs on this hame that allows for the hame to be held in any position when places on the collar.
Date: November 8, 1913
Creator: Griffin, John R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for an improvement in baling-presses that uses a plunger operated press for maximum compression and minimum power.
Date: November 5, 1901
Creator: Hayes, Daniel George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable Extension Top for Stoves. (open access)

Portable Extension Top for Stoves.

Patent for a new and improved portable extension for stove tops. This design is for a casing with pot-holes that utilizes a flange and a collar to allow for attachment to the stove top. This increases the usable surface area of the stove by a third.
Date: November 16, 1880
Creator: Hutchinson, John Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Itasca] captions transcript

[News Clip: Itasca]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 12, 1982, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Itasca] captions transcript

[News Clip: Itasca]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 12, 1982, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Malone - Racism] captions transcript

[News Clip: Malone - Racism]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story by reporter Sherry Woodard about small town Malone where a black man named James Oliver King, Jr. was chased by several white men and was killed by them and the ensuing controversy about the civil suit given to the FBI by Malone's mayor, Tommy Westmoreland. This story aired at 6pm.
Date: November 28, 1989
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Hill County

Map of Hill County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: November 1871
Creator: Klappenbach, L. & Lungkwitz, Herman
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Hill County Record. (Hillsboro, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, November 8, 1907 (open access)

The Hill County Record. (Hillsboro, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, November 8, 1907

Weekly newspaper from Hillsboro, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 8, 1907
Creator: Mayes, W. S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Fifth Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church, South (open access)

Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Fifth Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Journal proceedings of Central Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, condensed minutes of the proceedings, reports of boards and committees, appointments, memoirs, statistical tables, and advertisements. Indexes to the journal and advertisements on page 109.
Date: November 1914
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal Lubricator (open access)

Journal Lubricator

Patent for a journal lubricator. This lubricator is specially designed for rail car axles journals. Illustration included.
Date: November 6, 1906
Creator: Peeple, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Egg-Case. (open access)

Egg-Case.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in egg case, that "relates to folding boxes or crates such as are usually employed for packing and shipping eggs and various other articles" (line 10-12).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Prechtel, Charles A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sad - Iron Attachment For Pressing Seams. (open access)

Sad - Iron Attachment For Pressing Seams.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in Sad-Iron Attachments for pressing Seams to "provide a device of this class which is adapted to be connected with an ordinary sad - iron" (line 12 - 14)
Date: November 2, 1897
Creator: Rice, Margaret Elizabeth
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which has rotating blades on the front.
Date: November 23, 1909
Creator: Thompson, Joseph B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: New hospital] captions transcript

[News Clip: New hospital]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the dedication of the city of Whitney's new hospital.
Date: November 16, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: New hospital] (open access)

[News Script: New hospital]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the dedication of the city of Whitney's new hospital.
Date: November 16, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Plane crash] (open access)

[News Script: Plane crash]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: November 18, 1965
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Robberies] (open access)

[News Script: Robberies]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: November 11, 1969, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Corn and Cotton Planter. (open access)

Corn and Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the upright frame supported on the beam and carrying the two pivoted arms, in combination with the wheel having studs on both sides, the wires, and the lever middle fastened to the agitator-shaft . . . a hopper having the circular excision in its bottom, of the horizontal feed-wheel and arms, fast to a vertical vibratory shaft" (lines 79-88).
Date: November 16, 1886
Creator: Williams, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History