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Apparatus for Handling Seed Cotton.
Patent for cotton house with bins and conveyors that prevent the cotton from being contaminated.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.
Patent for a "mechanism for handling seed-cotton [...] to provide novel means for conveying said cotton directly from the wagon or from the cotton-house to the ginning mechanism, whereby the cotton is cleansed and dried during its passage" (lines 7-13). It also helps to prevent fires and contamination of ginned cotton, and to reduce labor handling seed-cotton.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 299, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 2, 1884
Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Rankin, John G. & Levin
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Power.
Patent for a new and improved churn-power. This design "consists in the combination, with a vertically-moveable carriage provided with a drum, of a rope wound on the same, and having its upper end secured, from which drum a wheel on the carriage is operated by suitable gearing, the said wheel being connected with the dasher-staff. When the carriage descends under the action of its own weight and of the weight of the parts on it, the drum is revolved and the dasher rod or staff operated" (lines 11-21).
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Williams, Fredrick Fitz
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton or Other Press.
Patent for "that class of cotton-presses in which duplex bale or press boxes arranged to swing upon centers are adapted to be brought in line with a stationary platen and a movable follower" (lines 7-11), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Cosmopolitan (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 90, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 2, 1884
Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 18, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 2, 1884
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The El Paso Daily Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 229, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 2, 1884
Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 327, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 2, 1884
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 766, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 2, 1884
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 223, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 2, 1884
Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Handling Lint Cotton.
Patent for a new and improved mechanism for handling lint-cotton. This design "has for its object to avoid the accumulation of dust and light particles of fiber in the atmosphere of the gin-house, to greatly reduce the dangers of destructive conflagrations in ginning establishments, to avoid the repeated handling of the cotton between the gins and the press, and to secure a more perfect separation from the cotton of dust and other foreign substances" (lines 8-16).
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Norton's Union Intelligencer. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 175, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 2, 1884
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Norton, A. B.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved pipe wrench. This design consists "[i]n a pipe-wrench, the bar or lever having a lower curved and serrated end, in combination with the pivoted arm having reversely-hooked ends, one of said curved ends having a greater curvature than the other said hooked end" (lines 59-64).
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Morrison, William S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 289, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 2, 1884
Daily newspaper (except Sunday) from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Telegraph Message from R. P. Talley to Paul Osterhout, December 2, 1884]
Telegraph message from R. P. Talley to Paul Osterhout. Talley sent a short message to find out whether or not Paul received a letter Talley sent in March.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Talley, R. P.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 340, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 2, 1884
Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 274, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 2, 1884
Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 2, 1884
Creator:
Rankin, John G. & Levin
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1078: Overlease, Viola F. (Deceased)
Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Overlease, Viola F. (died November 2, 1884) and G.M. Overlease (Executor or Guardian)
Date:
1884-11-02/1895-04-05
Creator:
Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 353, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 2, 1884
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 2, 1884
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 298, Ed. 1, Sunday, November 2, 1884
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 2, 1884
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 193, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 2, 1884
Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 2, 1884
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 27, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 2, 1884
Weekly newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 2, 1884
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 315, Ed. 1, Sunday, November 2, 1884
Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 2, 1884
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History