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The Daily Ranchero. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 5, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 16, 1869 (open access)

The Daily Ranchero. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 5, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 16, 1869

Newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 16, 1869
Creator: Maltby, H. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Die Union. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 6, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 16, 1869 (open access)

Die Union. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 6, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 16, 1869

Tri-weekly German-language newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 16, 1869
Creator: Flake, Ferdinand
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sewing Machines (open access)

Improvement in Sewing Machines

Patent for "a new Improved Sewing-Machine" that "has for its object to provide more useful and efficient machines than those now in use."
Date: November 16, 1869
Creator: Cleaver, P. J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sewing-Machine. (open access)

Improvement in Sewing-Machine.

Patent for improvements to the sewing machine. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 16, 1869
Creator: Clever, P. J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Ditching-Machine. (open access)

Improved Ditching-Machine.

Patent for improvement in ditching machine which “consists of a boring or ditching-auger, suspended from the frame of a truck, and having an enlarged head projecting in advance of the truck, and rotated, so as to bore out a groove as the truck is moved along, screwing the earth taken back through a trough, to an elevator which carries it up to a spout, chuting it to one side.” (Lines 13-19) Illustration is included.
Date: November 16, 1869
Creator: McGehee, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History