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The Ferris Wheel, Volume 4, Number 6, Saturday, October 17, 1896
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements.
Date:
October 17, 1896
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 4, Number 31, Saturday, April 17, 1897
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements. This issue contains the story "Scenes from the Flooded District" - a story on the massive spring flooding in the Mississippi Valley. Includes 5 drawings.--[p.3]
Date:
April 17, 1897
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 4, Number 44, Saturday, July 17, 1897
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements.
Date:
July 17, 1897
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Jas M. Cartney to M. Parks, February 17 1887]
Letter from Jas M. Cartney to M. Parks. The letter was written February 17, 1887.
Date:
February 17, 1887
Creator:
Cartney, Jas M.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 6, Number 2, Saturday, September 17, 1898
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements.
Date:
September 17, 1898
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 6, Number 40, Saturday, June 17, 1899
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements.
Date:
June 17, 1899
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 6, Number 15, Saturday, December 17, 1898
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements.
Date:
December 17, 1898
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Presses.
Patent for pressing cotton, hay, and tobacco with moveable notches for more control in producing bales and using less power than previous presses, including illustration.
Date:
January 17, 1860
Creator:
McCray, Thomas H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for an improved animal trap for “catching small animals in a trap which will be ever set and in operative position for catching an animal and which will be automatically reset” (lines 10-13), illustration is included.
Date:
March 17, 1891
Creator:
Bassinger, Stephen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Throat Latch Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved throat-latch fastener. This design consists in a "connecting-plate for bridles, having the side and end bars, the intermediate transverse bars . . . and the central longitudinal bar, having a stud in one portion thereof" (lines 79-83).
Date:
April 17, 1888
Creator:
Hopson, Franklin Oliver
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Car.
Patent for a new and improved handcar. This design "is to provide for hand-cars a motive power which will produce a high rate of speed and which will enable a hand-car to be propelled in either direction without necessitating turning the car end for end" (lines 9-14). It consists of "an opening in its platform disposed over one of the axles, a rectangular casing arranged over the opening, a drive-shaft journaled in the sides of the casing, a train of gears consisting of cog-wheels and pinions connecting the drive-shaft and the axle, and the crank-handles arranged at the ends of the drive-shaft" (lines 64-71).
Date:
May 17, 1892
Creator:
Parker, Joseph R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pruning Implement.
Patent for a new and improved pruner. This design "has relation to that class of pruning elements in which a concave chisel-edge is formed in the upper end of the blade and one concave jaw of a pair of pruning-shears is formed at the lower end of the blade, while a saw is attached to one side of the blade and a pivoted jaw is attached to the lower end, operating together with the lower concave edge, and it contemplates certain improvements upon the pruning implement [of an earlier patent]" (lines 19-29).
Date:
August 17, 1886
Creator:
Bartly, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator, a type of farm implement used for secondary tillage, a way of plowing or cultivating of soil, including illustrations.
Date:
November 17, 1885
Creator:
Brown, Peter C. & Bragg, Thomas P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3852, Chapter 587
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Midlothian Municipal Management District No. 2; providing authority to impose a tax, levy an assessment, and issue bonds.
Date:
June 17, 2011
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sunshade Holder
Patent for a sunshade holder. Illustration included.
Date:
August 17, 1909
Creator:
Atkinson, Earl H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Running-Gear for Plows.
Patent for a running gear attachment for a plow to change a walking plow to a sulky(riding) plow.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Awtrey, Leland L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Ed. 1 Thursday, October 17, 2013
Daily newspaper from Ennis, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 17, 2013
Creator:
Todaro, Nick
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 2013
Daily newspaper from Ennis, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 17, 2013
Creator:
Todaro, Nick
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 2012
Daily newspaper from Ennis, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 17, 2012
Creator:
Todaro, Nick
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Daily newspaper from Ennis, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 17, 2012
Creator:
Todaro, Nick
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Daily newspaper from Ennis, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 17, 2013
Creator:
Todaro, Nick
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Ed. 1 Sunday, June 17, 2012
Daily newspaper from Ennis, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 17, 2012
Creator:
Todaro, Nick
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Daily newspaper from Ennis, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 17, 2013
Creator:
Todaro, Nick
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Daily newspaper from Ennis, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 17, 2012
Creator:
Todaro, Nick
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History