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The Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 231, Ed. 1, Friday, December 2, 1881
Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 2, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 22, Ed. 1, Thursday, June 2, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 2, 1881
Creator:
Rankin, John G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Insects.
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for killing ants. This design "consist[s] of frame, levers, pivoted arms, piston-rod, piston provided with valves and openings, air-tight iron chamber having opening pipe, furnace provided with double lid, lugs, pipe, clamp, and wedge . . . whereby the flame as well as the poisonous vapors are injected into the insect chambers" (lines 50-58).
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
Gray, Hiram Balderston
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "facilitate[s] the building of wire fences; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the transporting bed or wagon, its spindles for the spools of wire, and its transverse windlass-rollers and their ratchets and pawls" (lines 16-21).
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
Morter, John Letcher
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Working Hydrated Volatile Refrigerating Agents, and Apparatus for Ice Making and Refrigeration.
Patent for a new method of working hydrated volatile refrigerating agents and a new refrigerator. This design "involve[s] the use of such highly volatile matters as are capable of hydration — as, for instance, ammonia, that being the refrigerating agent preferable to all others . . . [and] is a simplification in the mode of operation, and in apparatus which enables the employment of comparatively unskilled labor, the production of apparatus at comparatively low cost, and the working of the ammonia-gas at comparatively low pressure, thus obviating the dangers" (lines 13-24).
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
Rose, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Switch Lock.
Patent for a new and improved railway-switch lock. This design "consists in a novel construction and arrangement of parts whereby an independent key is used to unlock the latch or bolt of the bolt-case" (lines 14-17).
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
Angus, Alexander & Phillips, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Rail and Chair.
Patent for a new and improved railway rail and chair combination. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the reversible rail and chair-plates . . . so as to leave an open crescent-shaped space below the middle part of the rail and above the inwardly projecting lips" (lines 94-98).
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
Brown, Frederick H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from J. B. Bovelly to J. B. LaCoste, March 2, 1881]
Letter from J. B. Bovelly to J. B. LaCoste regarding lands owned by Albert Huth. [Ferdinand] Louis Huth was paying taxes on the land but letters to him have gone unanswered. The family would like to know whose name the properties are listed under, whether taxes have been paid, whether the land can be sold and what might its value be. Signed J. B. Bovelly on March 2, 1881 in Galveston.
Date:
March 2, 1881
Creator:
Bovelly, J. B.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 16, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 2, 1881
Weekly - and some times semi-weekly - newspaper from Bastrop, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 2, 1881
Creator:
Cain, Thomas C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 2, 1881
Weekly - and some times semi-weekly - newspaper from Bastrop, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 2, 1881
Creator:
Cain, Thomas C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Griffin Echo (Fort Griffin, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 25, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 2, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Fort Griffin, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
July 2, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Standard (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, December 2, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Clarksville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
December 2, 1881
Creator:
DeMorse, Charles
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Standard (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, September 2, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Clarksville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
September 2, 1881
Creator:
DeMorse, Charles
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Paul Osterhout to Ora Osterhout, September 2, 1881]
Letter from Paul Osterhout to Ora Osterhout. Paul wrote his friend after receiving two letters from Ora. Paul informed him of the trains he had seen going by that day as he waits to go home and asked for information regarding mutual friends. He went on to write about miscellaneous bits of news he has read and other things he has seen at that station. Pages are labeled out of order.
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
Osterhout, Paul
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Gertrude Osterhout to Ora Osterhout, June 2, 1881]
Photocopy of a letter from Gertrude Osterhout to Ora Osterhout. She wrote her younger sister to wish her a happy birthday. Gertrude sent Ora well wishes and wrote about the future and how wonderful it would be for their family to all be together.
Date:
June 2, 1881
Creator:
Osterhout, Gertrude
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Ora Osterhout to Gertrude Osterhout, June 2, 1881]
Letter from Ora Osterhout to her older sister, Gertrude Osterhout, regarding Ora's birthday. She wrote her sister to tell her what had happened on her birthday and some brief local news.
Date:
June 2, 1881
Creator:
Osterhout, Ora
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Jeremiah Osterhout to Bud, April 2, 1881]
A brief letter from John Jeremiah Osterhout to Bud with news from Belton, Texas. He wrote that he had recently gone to a ball. He discussed people who had recently fallen ill and described his family's health. He ended the letter by stating that one of their cows had had a calf and that they were considering selling one of their animals.
Date:
April 2, 1881
Creator:
Osterhout, John Jeremiah
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from B. F. Lee to Paul Osterhout, October 2, 1881]
A brief letter from B. F. Lee to his friend, Paul Osterhout, regarding the college Paul was attending. Lee requested that Paul send him all the information he could about the college he was attending.
Date:
October 2, 1881
Creator:
Lee, B. F.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weekly Democratic Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Austin, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 2, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. XXIVII, No. 81, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 2, 1881
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 2, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. XXIVII, No. 108, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 2, 1881
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 2, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. XXIVII, No. 160, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1881
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 2, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. XXIVII, No. 239, Ed. 1 Friday, September 2, 1881
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 2, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. XXIVII, No. 212, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 2, 1881
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History