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Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 198, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 20, 1889 (open access)

Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 198, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 20, 1889

Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Garrett, O. H. P.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Bevel, Protractor, Gage, Center-Square, &c. (open access)

Combined Bevel, Protractor, Gage, Center-Square, &c.

Patent for "a combination-tool seeking to provide a single implement so constructed and inscribed as to be useful to architects, draftsmen, millwrights, machinists, and all metal and wood workers, and which shall be light and convenient to carry and may be quickly adjusted to its different positions for use" (lines 8-14).
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Meek, Alphonso Eugene
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Document-File. (open access)

Document-File.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive self-adjusting file mounted on a revoluble base allowing the operator to successively access the several sub-divisions including illustrations.
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Rich, Robert S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 248, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 20, 1889 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 248, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 20, 1889

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 20, 1889 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 20, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Elliott, Sercey & Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 313, Ed. 1, Tuesday, August 20, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 313, Ed. 1, Tuesday, August 20, 1889

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 2221, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 20, 1889 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 2221, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 20, 1889

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 223, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 20, 1889 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 223, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 20, 1889

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Leonard, J. T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 115, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 20, 1889 (open access)

The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 115, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 20, 1889

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gangway for Loading or Unloading Stock Cars. (open access)

Gangway for Loading or Unloading Stock Cars.

Patent for a new and improved gangway. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in an animal-trap having an inclined bottom and opposite sides, of a winch journaled at one end thereof, a movable platform mounted on the bottom and provided with opposite posts at its front end, a gate hinged to one of said posts, and opposite chains connected to the winch at one end and passing over drums located at the opposite ends of the sides, the opposite terminals of the chains being connected to the opposite posts" (lines 6-16).
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: McIver, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Padded Hat. (open access)

Padded Hat.

Patent for a new and improved padded hat. This design "is to provide a pad which can be quickly applied and when applied will remain in place, and by means of which a hat that is a trifle too large can readily be made to fit. . . . Heretofore persons wearing hats of odd sizes, or after having their hair cut short, have been compelled to place paper, felt, or some other material in between the sweat-band and the body of the hat in order to make the hat fit. These pieces, not being secured, are constantly coming out and are a source of great annoyance" (lines 7-19).
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Moyer, Jesse Hechler
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. NINTH YEAR, No. 188, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 20, 1889 (open access)

El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. NINTH YEAR, No. 188, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 20, 1889

Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Signal. (open access)

Revolving Signal.

Patent for a new and improved revolving signal-light: "[t]he combination, with a car-axle and a shaft driven thereby, of the lateral supporting stems carrying signaling-lanterns glazed in alternating colors, a shifting-lever acting alternately upon studs or stops of the said shaft, said shaft having a sliding movement, and gearing alternately with said signal-carrying stems" (lines 82-89).
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Warren, John W. & Radford, Samuel H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 178, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 20, 1889 (open access)

San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 178, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 20, 1889

Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Hinge. (open access)

Spring Hinge.

Patent for a new and improved spring-hinge. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a hinge having one of its leaves provided with a casing and the other provided with curved projections, the spring arranged in the casing, and the rod engaging said spring and having the curved portion provided with trunnions engaging the said projections" (lines 65-71).
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Pierce, Jesse W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener and Splicer (open access)

Wire Tightener and Splicer

Patent for "a device adapted to be used in tightening and splicing the wires of wire fences, which can be manufactured at a very small cost and sold at about five cents each" (lines 12-16).
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Taylor, Shapley P. Ross; Sharman, William T. & Jamison, Joseph L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History