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Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 5590, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 18, 1900 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 5590, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 18, 1900

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 18, 1900
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alpine Avalanche. (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, May 18, 1900 (open access)

Alpine Avalanche. (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, May 18, 1900

Weekly newspaper from Alpine, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 18, 1900
Creator: McKinney, R. C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack. (open access)

Lifting-Jack.

Patent for improved construction of lifting jacks with a "vertically-movable screw and capable of enabling the jack to be readily connected with an object at the base of it, whereby the range of the lifting-jack will be materially increased" (lines 14-18).
Date: December 18, 1900
Creator: Sanders, John Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well casing (open access)

Well casing

Patent for a well-casing for a strainer.
Date: December 18, 1900
Creator: Stukes, John Marion
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Germ-Destroyer for Telephone-Mouthpieces. (open access)

Germ-Destroyer for Telephone-Mouthpieces.

Patent for destroying disease causing germs in the mouth-piece of a telephone.
Date: December 18, 1900
Creator: Lacey, Lewis Lorenzo
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press. (open access)

Hay-Press.

Patent for hay presses with "a construction operable by horse-power in which the plunger will be operated as the sweep is moved in both directions and in which, furthermore, there will be an efficiency of operation and an economy of power" (lines 11-16).
Date: December 18, 1900
Creator: Bryant, Edward R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Texarkanian. (Texarkana, Ark.), Vol. 16, No. 140, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 1900 (open access)

The Daily Texarkanian. (Texarkana, Ark.), Vol. 16, No. 140, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 1900

Daily newspaper from Texarkana, Arkansas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 18, 1900
Creator: Gardner, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Texarkanian. (Texarkana, Ark.), Vol. 16, No. 166, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 18, 1900 (open access)

The Daily Texarkanian. (Texarkana, Ark.), Vol. 16, No. 166, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 18, 1900

Daily newspaper from Texarkana, Arkansas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 18, 1900
Creator: Gardner, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Texarkanian. (Texarkana, Ark.), Vol. 16, No. 190, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 18, 1900 (open access)

The Daily Texarkanian. (Texarkana, Ark.), Vol. 16, No. 190, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 18, 1900

Daily newspaper from Texarkana, Arkansas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 18, 1900
Creator: Gardner, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Texarkanian. (Texarkana, Ark.), Vol. 16, No. 217, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 18, 1900 (open access)

The Daily Texarkanian. (Texarkana, Ark.), Vol. 16, No. 217, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 18, 1900

Daily newspaper from Texarkana, Arkansas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 18, 1900
Creator: Gardner, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Texarkanian. (Texarkana, Ark.), Vol. 16, No. 225, Ed. 1 Friday, May 18, 1900 (open access)

The Daily Texarkanian. (Texarkana, Ark.), Vol. 16, No. 225, Ed. 1 Friday, May 18, 1900

Daily newspaper from Texarkana, Arkansas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 18, 1900
Creator: Gardner, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Texarkanian. (Texarkana, Ark.), Vol. 16, No. 249, Ed. 1 Monday, June 18, 1900 (open access)

The Daily Texarkanian. (Texarkana, Ark.), Vol. 16, No. 249, Ed. 1 Monday, June 18, 1900

Daily newspaper from Texarkana, Arkansas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 18, 1900
Creator: Gardner, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Texarkanian. (Texarkana, Ark.), Vol. 16, No. 272, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 18, 1900 (open access)

The Daily Texarkanian. (Texarkana, Ark.), Vol. 16, No. 272, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 18, 1900

Daily newspaper from Texarkana, Arkansas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 18, 1900
Creator: Gardner, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Screw-Gearing (open access)

Screw-Gearing

Patent for screw-gearing for motors, particularly motors for fans or similar objects, including illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1900
Creator: Paker, Oren A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Double-Acting Pump (open access)

Double-Acting Pump

Patent for new and useful improvement in double-acting pumps for those "deep-well double-acting pumps in which as single cylinder and piston are used" (lines 14-15), including illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1900
Creator: Stuckes, John M. & Smith, Earnest K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Chester W. Nimitz to his Grandfather, April 18, 1900] (open access)

[Letter from Chester W. Nimitz to his Grandfather, April 18, 1900]

Handwritten letter from Chester Nimitz to his grandfather in Fredericksburg. Nimitz mentions his decision to try for appointment to either Annapolis or West Point. He also indicated he will study geometry that summer with John Toland as tutor. The letter is on St. Charles Hotel (Kerrville, Texas) stationery.
Date: April 18, 1900
Creator: Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for improvements in baling-presses by using a “duplex baling-press wherein the power is alternately applied by novel mechanism to the two baling-plungers in such manner that only one plunger at a given time is operating to compress the bale, and at the completion of the stroke thereof the other plunger is operated to compress its bale, the arrangement being such that the plungers are alternately engaged and released by the power mechanism and are automatically returned to operative position after they have been released.” (Lines 9-21.) Illustration is included.
Date: September 18, 1900
Creator: Watkins, William D. & Pruit, Trose P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Independence Courier. (Independence, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 1900 (open access)

Independence Courier. (Independence, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 1900

Weekly newspaper from Independence, Oklahoma that includes local, territorial, and United States national news along with advertising.
Date: October 18, 1900
Creator: Veatch, Everett
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Transcript of Letter from Chester W. Nimitz to his Grandfather, April 18, 1900] (open access)

[Transcript of Letter from Chester W. Nimitz to his Grandfather, April 18, 1900]

Transcription of letter from Chester Nimitz to his grandfather in Fredericksburg. Nimitz mentions his decision to try for appointment to either Annapolis or West Point. He also indicated he will study geometry that summer with John Toland as tutor.
Date: April 18, 1900
Creator: Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 269, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 18, 1900 (open access)

San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 269, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 18, 1900

Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 18, 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence (open access)

Fence

Patent for fence improvements, "especially to a wire fence made, preferably, of plain strands of wire horizontally disposed and drawn toward one another by means of short pieces of wire which are twisted about the horizontal wires line" (lines 15 – 20) illustrations included.
Date: September 18, 1900
Creator: Bateman, Eugene E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 299, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 1900 (open access)

San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 299, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 1900

Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 18, 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Sunday Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 320, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 18, 1900 (open access)

San Antonio Sunday Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 320, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 18, 1900

Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 18, 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 349, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 18, 1900 (open access)

San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 349, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 18, 1900

Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 18, 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History