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Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 207, Ed. 1, Saturday, January 26, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 207, Ed. 1, Saturday, January 26, 1889

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 26, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 319, Ed. 1, Monday, August 26, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 319, Ed. 1, Monday, August 26, 1889

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 26, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 350, Ed. 1, Thursday, September 26, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 350, Ed. 1, Thursday, September 26, 1889

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 26, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 238, Ed. 1, Tuesday, February 26, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 238, Ed. 1, Tuesday, February 26, 1889

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 26, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 288, Ed. 1, Friday, July 26, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 288, Ed. 1, Friday, July 26, 1889

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 26, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Weekly Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 42, Ed. 1, Thursday, September 26, 1889 (open access)

Fort Worth Weekly Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 42, Ed. 1, Thursday, September 26, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 26, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 26, Ed. 1, Friday, April 26, 1889 (open access)

The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 26, Ed. 1, Friday, April 26, 1889

Weekly newspaper from San Saba, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 26, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 39, Ed. 1, Friday, July 26, 1889 (open access)

The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 39, Ed. 1, Friday, July 26, 1889

Weekly newspaper from San Saba, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 26, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 346, Ed. 1, Friday, April 26, 1889 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 346, Ed. 1, Friday, April 26, 1889

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 26, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 220, Ed. 1, Tuesday, March 26, 1889 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 220, Ed. 1, Tuesday, March 26, 1889

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 26, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 171, Ed. 1, Saturday, January 26, 1889 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 171, Ed. 1, Saturday, January 26, 1889

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 26, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Band-Cutter and Feeder (open access)

Band-Cutter and Feeder

Patent for "new and useful improvements in band-cutters and feeders" (lines 6-7).
Date: February 26, 1889
Creator: King, Charlie C. & Trimble, Alonzo D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator and Planter. (open access)

Combined Cultivator and Planter.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator and planter. This design consists in "the combination of the box having the slot and the three apertures in the side of the slot . . . the reciprocating seed-slide, and the sliding and adjustable plate . . . having the slot near its end and engaging with the free leg of the staple" (lines 100-110).
Date: February 26, 1889
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleaning and Handling Seed-Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Cleaning and Handling Seed-Cotton

Patent for "improved means for conveying seed-cotton from wagons or store-houses to a series of gins, to clean it during its passage, and to avoid clogging the gins or the devices themselves by rapid feeding of the cotton" (lines 14-18).
Date: November 26, 1889
Creator: Elam, William E.; Thomas, Robert S. & Hardwick, Sauny W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Latch and Lock Combined. (open access)

Latch and Lock Combined.

Patent for a new and improved latch and lock. This design consists "[i]n a lock, the combination, with the bushing extending through and rigidly secured to the door and having a screw-thread on its inner end, of the lock-case having the circular screw-threaded aperture into which the threaded end of the bushing is screwed, the spring-actuated bolt and knob-spindle connected therewith, and the outer plate having the notch engaging with the lug on the case, and the downwardly projecting side-pieces [and] provided with screw-holes" (lines 75-85).
Date: March 26, 1889
Creator: Overton, Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for an improvement in the vertical wheel of windmills including illustrations.
Date: March 26, 1889
Creator: Dietert, Gustav
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trace Attachment. (open access)

Trace Attachment.

Patent for a new and improved trace attachment. This design "relates to an improvement in couplings for tug-straps, and has for its object to provide a simple, economical, and durable device, capable of convenient manipulation, and whereby the tug-strap may be expeditiously attached to the cockeye of the whiffletree or detached therefrom" (lines 8-14).
Date: November 26, 1889
Creator: Turman, William F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nail-Box. (open access)

Nail-Box.

Patent for a new nail box designed to "be conveniently handled and pushed under the counter" (lines 17-18) and "readily withdrawn to permit free access" (lines 19-20) including illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1889
Creator: Hendricks, Gay
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Switch Stand for Dynamo Stations. (open access)

Switch Stand for Dynamo Stations.

Patent for a new and improved switch stand for dynamo stations. This design "is to provide a simple and efficient switch for introducing dynamos into an electric circuit and removing them therefrom . . . [The] invention consists in . . . outside circuit-wires . . . switch contacts arranged in pairs, there being as many pairs of such contacts as there are dynamos belonging to the circuit. It also consists[,] . . . with the pairs of contacts, of corresponding pairs of swinging arms, the arms of each pair being insulated from each other and adapted to engage the contacts of the outside circuit" (lines 14-27).
Date: March 26, 1889
Creator: Stewart, Robert Edward
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tent and Attachment. (open access)

Tent and Attachment.

Patent for a new and improved tent. This design is "to provide a tent-frame in such a manner that it may be readily folded into small compass, and which when extended for use will be very strong and serviceable" (lines 14-17). To this end, it consists of a cap, "of the rafters pivoted in the walls of said recesses and having their ends formed with a short incline or bevel and a longer or different incline or bevel" (lines 1-4).
Date: November 26, 1889
Creator: Turner, Epraim Meral
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Fastener (open access)

Sash-Fastener

Patent for "a new and improved sashholder which is simple and durable in construction and permits of conveniently lowerin g the upper sash and raising the lower sash, or raising both the lower and upper sashes to any desired place in the window-frame" (lines 10-15).
Date: November 26, 1889
Creator: Bulloch, Henry Purnell & Grogan, William Leonard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fish-Trap. (open access)

Fish-Trap.

Patent for an improved fish-trap consisting of a net drawn in the rear of two boats with illustrations.
Date: March 26, 1889
Creator: Green, John E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Filter and Water Purifier. (open access)

Filter and Water Purifier.

Patent for a new and improved water filter. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a water-pump having upwardly-opening valves, an air-pump having downwardly-opening valves, and two perforated cylinders surrounding the pump-tubes and provided with a packing of filtering material, the water-pump tube opening into the inner cylinder, and the pump-tube passing entirely through both heads of the same" (lines 61-68).
Date: November 26, 1889
Creator: Stiles, Frederick
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grindstone Fixture. (open access)

Grindstone Fixture.

Patent for a new and improved grindstone fixture. This design consists "[i]n a fastening for grindstones, the combination of the shaft having the rounded collar and the screw-threaded portion, the stone fitting with its central perforation upon the shaft, the washer having the concave aperture fitting upon the collar, the washer having the set-screws, and the nut upon the threaded part of the shaft clamping the washers upon the stone" (lines 77-85).
Date: February 26, 1889
Creator: Stopple, John Julius
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History