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Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 196, Ed. 1, Tuesday, January 15, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 196, Ed. 1, Tuesday, January 15, 1889

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 15, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 339, Ed. 1, Sunday, September 15, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 339, Ed. 1, Sunday, September 15, 1889

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 15, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 227, Ed. 1, Friday, February 15, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 227, Ed. 1, Friday, February 15, 1889

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 15, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 277, Ed. 1, Monday, July 15, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 277, Ed. 1, Monday, July 15, 1889

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 15, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 308, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 15, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 308, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 15, 1889

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 15, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Weekly Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 36, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 15, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Weekly Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 36, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 15, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 15, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 16, Ed. 1, Friday, February 15, 1889 (open access)

The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 16, Ed. 1, Friday, February 15, 1889

Weekly newspaper from San Saba, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 15, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 20, Ed. 1, Friday, March 15, 1889 (open access)

The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 20, Ed. 1, Friday, March 15, 1889

Weekly newspaper from San Saba, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 15, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 3, Ed. 1, Friday, November 15, 1889 (open access)

The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 3, Ed. 1, Friday, November 15, 1889

Weekly newspaper from San Saba, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 15, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 161, Ed. 1, Tuesday, January 15, 1889 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 161, Ed. 1, Tuesday, January 15, 1889

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 15, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 211, Ed. 1, Friday, March 15, 1889 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 211, Ed. 1, Friday, March 15, 1889

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 15, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Daily News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 361, Ed. 1, Wednesday, May 15, 1889 (open access)

Waco Daily News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 361, Ed. 1, Wednesday, May 15, 1889

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 15, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cartridge-Loading Machine (open access)

Cartridge-Loading Machine

Patent for improvements to the machine originally patented on August 10, 186 by Edward A. Franklin of Brenham, patent no. 347,268.
Date: January 15, 1889
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Torch and Gas Burner Key. (open access)

Combined Torch and Gas Burner Key.

Patent for a new and improved combined torch and gas-burner key. This design "relates to a device for lighting gas-burners and operating the cock of the gas-burner, and has for its object to provide a combined torch and key by means of which the gas may be lighted without the flame of the torch coming in contact with the globe surrounding the burner and the cock of the gas-burner readily taken hold of and operated" (lines 8-15).
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Lindsay, George Washington
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press (open access)

Cotton-Press

Patent for improvements in the construction of steam cotton presses using a change in the frame and use of hydraulic-pressure pumps to operate the press. The pumps are driven by steam
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Turnpaugh, James William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel. (open access)

Wheel.

Patent for a new and improved wheel. This design "is to obviate the . . . great difficulty . . . experienced in the construction of wheels in putting the axle-box in the hub and getting it true. . . . and [to] improve and strengthen the construction of wheels, and especially the manner of securing the spokes in the hubs" (lines 9-17).
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Holland, William Johnson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton and Corn Planter (open access)

Cotton and Corn Planter

Patent for "a durable and illexpensive planter which will serve to plant both corn and cotton in a perfect manner, and thus combine the two machines in one" (lines 11-14).
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Letot, Clement
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Auger. (open access)

Post Hole Auger.

Patent for a new and improved post-hole auger. This design consists in "the shank forked and continued in the arms, the latter having elbows at their lower ends, in combination with the ring-shaped band having a sharp lower edge and bolts passing through said bands and arms and through said elbows and arms" (lines 91-97).
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: McCall, Dugald Bell
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "the post having projecting pins or studs combined with the gate having the hinges composed of a pair of plates bolted together, the said plates being swelled outward to provide collars, which are provided with cams" (lines 66-71).
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Friday, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Escape (open access)

Fire-Escape

Patent for "a fire-escape and observation-tower, which may be raised or extended at any point, or be lowered and compactly folded for transportation" (lines 7-10).
Date: January 15, 1889
Creator: Rüllmann, John D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire Extinguisher. (open access)

Fire Extinguisher.

Patent for a new and improved fire extinguisher. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the expansible rod, the sweep arm or lever pivotally connected thereto, the horizontal rod, the doors, the cord connected to said doors and to the rod and adapted to be disengaged from said rod by the sweep-arm, the steam-pipe provided with a cut-off valve, and the weight supported normally in an elevated position by the sweep-arm and adapted to be released thereby to open the valve" (lines 72-81).
Date: January 15, 1889
Creator: Lutcher, Henry J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire Escape. (open access)

Fire Escape.

Patent for a new and improved fire escape. This design "is to provide a fire-escape consisting, essentially, of a cushion adapted to receive and break the fall of persons jumping from a burning building, the said cushion being so constructed as to enable it to be folded to a convenient and portable size" (lines 8-14).
Date: January 15, 1889
Creator: Simon, Jacob Peter
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Temperature-Regulator (open access)

Temperature-Regulator

Patent for "improvements in thermostatic devices for automatically regulating the temperature of lumber-driers" (lines 8-10).
Date: January 15, 1889
Creator: Lutcher, Henry J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw Set. (open access)

Saw Set.

Patent for a new and improved saw-set. This design "is to set saw-teeth in a new and efficient manner without the use of a lever" (lines 14-16). To this end, it "consist[s] of the frame having the arms, blade-bearings, setting-recess, and the three screws" (lines 48-50).
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Peter, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History