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[Abilene City Council Minutes: 1896-1909] (open access)

[Abilene City Council Minutes: 1896-1909]

Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from April 14, 1896 to April 20, 1909.
Date: 1896-04-14/1909-04-20
Creator: Abilene (Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for "car-couplers of the class known as 'link-and-pin' couplers, and has for its object the provision of means whereby the coupling is effected automatically and whereby the coupling-pin is made to actuate the brake-shaft" (lines 14-19).
Date: June 14, 1892
Creator: Acuff, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cherokee Advocate. (Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Indian Terr.), Vol. 18, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 14, 1893 (open access)

The Cherokee Advocate. (Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Indian Terr.), Vol. 18, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 14, 1893

Weekly newspaper from Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory that includes local, territorial, and United States national news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 1893
Creator: Adair, Hugh Montgomery
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 14, 1891 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 14, 1891

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 1891
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 14, 1892 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 14, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 14, 1892
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 14, 1892 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 14, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 14, 1892
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 14, 1893 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 14, 1893

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 14, 1893
Creator: Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter Attachment. (open access)

Seed-Planter Attachment.

Patent for "seed-planter attachments; and it has for its object to provide a new and useful machine of this character adapted to simultaneously plant two rows of corn, cotton, or other seed at any desired distance apart and to also provide means for marking the third row at any width from the planter." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 14, 1896
Creator: Adkins, Stephen J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for an improved and simple churn that works easily and quickly. It "is adapted to permit of the simultaneous securing and retention of the cream vessel or receptacle in position in its journaling or carrying frame, as well as the cover upon said vessel, and to provide for the ready removal of said vessel or receptacle and its said cover preparatory to removing the contents of the vessel or the cleaning thereof" (lines 18-25).
Date: February 14, 1893
Creator: Alexander, Horace C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 14, 1893 (open access)

The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 14, 1893

Weekly newspaper from Norman, Oklahoma Territory that includes local, territorial, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 1893
Creator: Allan, John S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1896 (open access)

The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1896

Weekly newspaper from Norman, Oklahoma Territory that includes local, territorial, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 14, 1896
Creator: Allan, John S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 14, 1896 (open access)

The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 14, 1896

Weekly newspaper from Norman, Oklahoma Territory that includes local, territorial, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 14, 1896
Creator: Allan, John S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, May 14, 1897 (open access)

The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, May 14, 1897

Weekly newspaper from Norman, Oklahoma Territory that includes local, territorial, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 14, 1897
Creator: Allan, John S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, January 14, 1898 (open access)

The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, January 14, 1898

Weekly newspaper from Norman, Oklahoma Territory that includes local, territorial, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 14, 1898
Creator: Allan, John S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 1898 (open access)

The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 1898

Weekly newspaper from Norman, Oklahoma Territory that includes local, territorial, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 14, 1898
Creator: Allan, John S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1899 (open access)

The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1899

Weekly newspaper from Norman, Oklahoma Territory that includes local, territorial, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 14, 1899
Creator: Allan, John S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1899 (open access)

The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1899

Weekly newspaper from Norman, Oklahoma Territory that includes local, territorial, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 14, 1899
Creator: Allan, John S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Awning. (open access)

Awning.

Patent for a new and improved awning. This design consists in "[t]he awning frame, consisting of the pivoted curved rods, pivoted sectional braces pivotally connected to said rods, and the holding or suspending bars pivoted to said rods and having series of adjusting-apertures engaging pins or studs of said braces" (lines 74-79).
Date: January 14, 1890
Creator: Allen, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock. (open access)

Nut Lock.

Patent for a new and improved nut-lock. This design "consist[s] of a strip of metal having the looped portion adapted to embrace the bolt, and having the downwardly-bent spring portion or end forming a biting-edge, the rearwardly-extending straight portion bent upward . . . to form a bearing point or edge, which is also adapted, in conjunction with the edge to grip the fish-plate . . . the forwardly-extending straight spring portion overlapping the straight portion, the inner curved edge of which lies in the path of the edge of the nut when the latter is turned upon the bolt" (lines 76-89).
Date: January 14, 1890
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for improvement in automatic car-couplings “in which the coupling-pin (worked by a rope or chain) is guided in a vertical tube extending upward from the draw-head, and is supported in position for coupling by a block sliding with the draw-head,” (lines 9-14) includes illustration.
Date: April 14, 1891
Creator: Angerstein, John F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt for taxes paid, January 14, 1890] (open access)

[Receipt for taxes paid, January 14, 1890]

Receipt for taxes paid by P. M. Price on January 14, 1892.
Date: January 14, 1892
Creator: Arledge, G. L.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nut Lock (open access)

Nut Lock

Patent for invented a new and useful Nut-Lock. Invention relates to improvements in nut locks of the class known as "spring and ratchet," for the purpose of proving a simple, cheap and easily operated nut lock without injury to any parts, and in which the locking means are concealed and protected while in the operative positions (10-15)
Date: March 14, 1893
Creator: Arnold, Eliphalet L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Refugio Review. (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. [19], Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1899 (open access)

The Refugio Review. (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. [19], Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1899

Weekly newspaper from Refugio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 14, 1899
Creator: Autry, J. D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Gate. (open access)

Automatic Railway-Gate.

Patent for an automatic railway-gate or cattle-guard for use "at crossings, the entrances to tunnels, bridges or trestles, or at other places where it is desirable to guard the tracks" (lines 11-13). The invention is a simple and effective way for closing gates, can be operated from a distance, and is controlled by the wheels of passing trains.
Date: August 14, 1894
Creator: Baade, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History