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Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 182, Ed. 1, Tuesday, January 1, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 182, Ed. 1, Tuesday, January 1, 1889

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 1, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 325, Ed. 1, Sunday, September 1, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 325, Ed. 1, Sunday, September 1, 1889

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 1, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 213, Ed. 1, Friday, February 1, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 213, Ed. 1, Friday, February 1, 1889

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 1, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 263, Ed. 1, Monday, July 1, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 263, Ed. 1, Monday, July 1, 1889

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 1, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 294, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 1, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 294, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 1, 1889

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 1, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Weekly Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 34, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 1, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Weekly Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 34, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 1, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 1, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 14, Ed. 1, Friday, February 1, 1889 (open access)

The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 14, Ed. 1, Friday, February 1, 1889

Weekly newspaper from San Saba, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 1, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 18, Ed. 1, Friday, March 1, 1889 (open access)

The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 18, Ed. 1, Friday, March 1, 1889

Weekly newspaper from San Saba, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 1, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 1, Ed. 1, Friday, November 1, 1889 (open access)

The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 1, Ed. 1, Friday, November 1, 1889

Weekly newspaper from San Saba, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 1, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 200, Ed. 1, Friday, March 1, 1889 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 200, Ed. 1, Friday, March 1, 1889

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 1, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 350, Ed. 1, Wednesday, May 1, 1889 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 350, Ed. 1, Wednesday, May 1, 1889

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 1, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 148, Ed. 1, Tuesday, January 1, 1889 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 148, Ed. 1, Tuesday, January 1, 1889

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 1, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine (open access)

Steam-Engine

Patent for a steam engine, improving on the original design so as to "provide a steam-engine having few parts so as to avoid the use of eccentrics, slide-valve, valve-rod, piston and connecting rods, stuffing-boxes, and glands, thus increasing the actual power by decreasing the friction" (lines 26-31).
Date: January 1, 1889
Creator: Harpst, Edgar S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "a central post, the latch-posts arranged at equal distances on opposite sides of the central post and provided with suitable catches, the latches pivoted at their inner ends to the center post and adapted to engage the said catches, the operating-bar affixed at its center to the upper end of the center post and at right angles to the gate, the loop connected at its free ends, respectively, to the latches, and the operating-cords running over guide-pulleys . . . and connected at their ends to the closed upper end of the loop" (lines 1-13).
Date: October 1, 1889
Creator: Eubanks, Thomas Jefferson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Recording Door-Lock (open access)

Recording Door-Lock

Patent for "a continuous-recording lock suitable for bonded warehouses, factories, stores, public buildings, offices &c., and by a slight modification applicable, also, for private residences" (lines 7-11).
Date: January 1, 1889
Creator: Ferguson, George J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sleigh-Runner. (open access)

Sleigh-Runner.

Patent for a new adjustable sleigh runner designed to be easily applied and removed from wheeled vehicles, including illustrations.
Date: January 1, 1889
Creator: Lewis, Thomas E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Means for Controlling the Flow of Navigable Rivers or Other Waters. (open access)

Means for Controlling the Flow of Navigable Rivers or Other Waters.

Patent for a new means of controlling the waters. This design "is to remove or prevent the formation of sand-bars at the mouths of harbors elsewhere, calculated to obstruct navigation; also, to prevent the overflow of navigable rivers and the breaking of levees or destruction of jetties. [The] invention consists in a novel means of accomplishing these and other like ends by mechanical forces applied to increase the natural current or outflow of the navigable water toward its outlet or the ocean through the instrumentality of suitably located and anchored vessels provided with propelling devices" (lines 8-21).
Date: October 1, 1889
Creator: Coult, Joseph C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Detachable and Adjustable Roller. (open access)

Detachable and Adjustable Roller.

Patent for a new and improved hand-truck. This design consists in "the combination, with the sections . . . arranged parallel to each other and adapted to have a combined longitudinal and lateral motion with reference to each other . . . rollers located upon the under side of said sections, and the spurs on the upper faces at each end, of the braces . . . located, respectively, upon the lower and upper faces of the device and diagonally across the same, and pivoted at each end to said sections . . . the openings provided on said sections, and the dowels on said sections" (lines 68-80).
Date: October 1, 1889
Creator: Delany, John L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cut-Off Valve. (open access)

Cut-Off Valve.

Patent for a new and improved valve. This design consists in "the valve-seat of [the] slide-valve, the entrances of whose steam passages form seats for auxiliary valves pivoted to [the] yoke on a rod, whose stud occupies said slot in upper portion of [the] arm pivoted to [the] pendant from [the] main valve-rod and terminating in [the] tappet, the same being combined with the adjustable stops" (lines 55-63).
Date: October 1, 1889
Creator: Moore, Robert B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "relates to that class of walking-cultivators or shovel-plows which are drawn by a single horse between two rows of plants, and which are frequently called 'double-shovel plows.' The leading object of the invention is to provide such a cultivator with two beams, each carrying a shovel, which beams are independently capable of vertical and lateral movements, whereby the operator can guide or lift the beams and shovels to avoid plants or obstacles" (lines 11-22).
Date: January 1, 1889
Creator: Jones, Fred B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cupper (open access)

Cotton-Cupper

Patent for improvements in the type of equipment known as cotton cupers.
Date: October 1, 1889
Creator: Wilder, Theodore C. & Wilder, Atwood, E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Canadian Free Press. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 1, 1889 (open access)

Canadian Free Press. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 1, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Canadian, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 1, 1889
Creator: Harm, L. V.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Canadian Free Press. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 44, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 1, 1889 (open access)

Canadian Free Press. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 44, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 1, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Canadian, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 1, 1889
Creator: Decker, W. S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Canadian Free Press. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1889 (open access)

The Canadian Free Press. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Canadian, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 1, 1889
Creator: Decker, W. S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History