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Exchange National Bank Pay to Sheriff Callahan
Check from Exchange National Bank to Sheriff Callahan for 4.50 dollars on September 27, 1892. A note below the amount says, "to cover cost in work case." The check is signed by "Jagoe & Ponder." In 1892, W. A. Ponder was Vice President of the Exchange National Bank. There are two signatures on the back of the check for J. M. Jones and Sheriff Callahan.
Date:
September 27, 1891
Creator:
Exchange National Bank
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Castro County
Map of Castro County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. Capitol Lands are marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
April 27, 1891
Creator:
Rowe
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 285, Ed. 1, Monday, July 27, 1891
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 27, 1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 316, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 27, 1891
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 27, 1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 255, Ed. 1, Saturday, June 27, 1891
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 27, 1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 12, Ed. 1, Tuesday, October 27, 1891
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 27, 1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 43, Ed. 1, Friday, November 27, 1891
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 27, 1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 347, Ed. 1, Sunday, September 27, 1891
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 27, 1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 38, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 27, 1891
Weekly newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 27, 1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 194, Ed. 1, Monday, April 27, 1891
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 27, 1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 224, Ed. 1, Wednesday, May 27, 1891
Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
May 27, 1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The San Saba Weekly News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 3, Ed. 1, Friday, November 27, 1891
Weekly newspaper from San Saba, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 27, 1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 34, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 27, 1891
Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 27, 1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Band-Brake for Railway-Cars
Patent for "a brake of simple and inexpensive construction, that may be readily attached to steam or tramway cars, that is automatic in its working, and to do away with the brake-beams now employed, which through their breaking down are two-thirds of the causes of car derailments" (lines 19-26).
Date:
January 27, 1891
Creator:
Inglis, Thomas & Schiermann, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for improvements on a churn design, in particular for churns with a vertical dasher that have reciprocating motion.
Date:
October 27, 1891
Creator:
Henderson, Henry Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Motor.
Patent for improvements in “water-motor in which the float-boards, paddles, or buckets move through the water in such a manner as to get as nearly as possible all the force it is capable of yielding, avoiding the great waste of power that results from the use of water-wheels.” (Lines 16-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 27, 1891
Creator:
Hurd, Judson B. & McLane, Hiram H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Movement.
Patent for improvements in mechanical movements by using the “combination of the frame comprising the base, the standard rising from one end of the base, the up-rights rising from the other end of the base, the horizontal bars connecting the standard ………….and reversely coiled around the shaft adjacent the operating-lever at points near the ends of shaft and having its ends secured to the ends of the cross-bar of the operating-lever.” (Lines 6-23, p.2) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 27, 1891
Creator:
Skaggs, Newton J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Music-Holder.
Patent for an improved music-holder. The music-holder is comprised of a base adapted to be secured to a music rest with a standard pivoted on the base. The standard is fixed with a spring-pressed shaft in order to press the book to the music stand.
Date:
October 27, 1891
Creator:
French, Clarence E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for improvements in washing-machines by using a combination of body, the shaft journaled in suitable bearings and extending beyond the body, the cog-wheel arranged on the extended end... and the rotary rubber.” (Lines 91-98, p.1 to lines1-6, p.2) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 27, 1891
Creator:
Walter, George P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Exhibitor.
Patent for a new desk intended to support calculating tables. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 27, 1891
Creator:
Garner, William R.; Tengelsen, James T. & Castberg, John.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Furnace
Patent for "an improvement in furnaces, and more particularly to such as are employed for burning offal, refuse from slaughtering-houses" in which the furnace is surrounded by water, and any liquid inside the furnace can be expelled in the form of vapor (lines11-14).
Date:
January 27, 1891
Creator:
Hatcher, William Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Gin.
Patent for improvements in cotton-gins by having two compartments, one above the other. “The upper roll-box being especially adapted to raw cotton and the lower one to half-ginned cotton as the lint and seeds are only partially separated in one roll-box and are then delivered into another, where the operation is completed.” (Lines 24-29) This operation used less time to separate the seed and lint. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 27, 1891
Creator:
Bachman, Joseph A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvements in cotton-choppers by "providing a frame in which is journaled the shaft carrying the cutting-wheel, which derives its motion through connection with the traction-wheels, the said shaft being arranged at an angle to the line of travel of the machine and connected by knuckle or swivel joint with a shaft comprising a part of the driving mechanism.” (Lines 19-26) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 27, 1891
Creator:
Poole, Luther M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Marking Live Stock.
Patent for improvement in devices for marking livestock by using steel blades either to cut or heated to burn the surface of livestock’s skin. (Lines 71-73) There is no mistaking the marks of one owner from those of another. (Lines 85-86) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 27, 1891
Creator:
Conine, Frederick B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History