Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 110, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 26, 1887 (open access)

Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 110, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 26, 1887

Weekly newspaper from Decatur, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 26, 1887
Creator: Forster, William & Mode, J. O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 114, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 26, 1887 (open access)

Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 114, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 26, 1887

Weekly newspaper from Decatur, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 26, 1887
Creator: Forster, William
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 148, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 26, 1887 (open access)

Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 148, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 26, 1887

Weekly newspaper from Decatur, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 26, 1887
Creator: Forster, William
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener. (open access)

Wire Tightener.

Patent for a new and improved wire tightener. This design consists in "the combination of the disks or sections connected by the central bar, the oppositely-pointing lever-arms, the transverse pin fitting into corresponding openings in the disks or sections on one side of the central bar, the locking-pin adapted to fit into any two corresponding openings of the concentric series of openings made in the disks, and a rope or similar device connecting the wire to be stretched with the disks and their connections" (lines 93-103).
Date: April 26, 1887
Creator: Boyd, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History