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[Letter to J.T. Rogers concerning the James River Squadron Confederate Navy] (open access)

[Letter to J.T. Rogers concerning the James River Squadron Confederate Navy]

Letter from Atlanta, GA May 27 (18)92 States that J.T. Rogers was steward or paymaster's clerk on the Gunboat Roanoke of the James River Squadron Confederate Navy from July 1864 up to the time of the evacuation of Richmond and that in that capacity he was efficient in the discharge of his duties and in every way entitled to, and worthy of confidence. Signed by Samual M. Tucker
Date: May 27, 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 48, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 27, 1892 (open access)

The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 48, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 27, 1892

Daily (except Sunday) newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 27, 1892
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 100, Ed. 1, Thursday, October 27, 1892 (open access)

The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 100, Ed. 1, Thursday, October 27, 1892

Daily (except Sunday) newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 27, 1892
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 74, Ed. 1, Tuesday, September 27, 1892 (open access)

The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 74, Ed. 1, Tuesday, September 27, 1892

Daily (except Sunday) newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 27, 1892
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 21, Ed. 1, Wednesday, July 27, 1892 (open access)

The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 21, Ed. 1, Wednesday, July 27, 1892

Daily (except Sunday) newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 27, 1892
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 152, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 27, 1892 (open access)

The Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 152, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 27, 1892

Daily (except Sunday) newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 27, 1892
Creator: Wheeler, Jesse O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 164, Ed. 1, Sunday, March 27, 1892 (open access)

Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 164, Ed. 1, Sunday, March 27, 1892

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 27, 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 135, Ed. 1, Saturday, February 27, 1892 (open access)

Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 135, Ed. 1, Saturday, February 27, 1892

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 27, 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 323, Ed. 1, Tuesday, September 27, 1892 (open access)

Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 323, Ed. 1, Tuesday, September 27, 1892

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 27, 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The San Saba County News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 28, Ed. 1, Friday, May 27, 1892 (open access)

The San Saba County News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 28, Ed. 1, Friday, May 27, 1892

Weekly newspaper from San Saba, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 27, 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 351, Ed. 1, Thursday, October 27, 1892 (open access)

Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 351, Ed. 1, Thursday, October 27, 1892

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 27, 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 46, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 27, 1892 (open access)

Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 46, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 27, 1892

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 27, 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 16, Ed. 1, Sunday, November 27, 1892 (open access)

Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 16, Ed. 1, Sunday, November 27, 1892

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 27, 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 170, Ed. 1, Wednesday, January 27, 1892 (open access)

The Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 170, Ed. 1, Wednesday, January 27, 1892

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 27, 1892
Creator: Christopher, R.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 273, Ed. 1, Friday, May 27, 1892 (open access)

The Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 273, Ed. 1, Friday, May 27, 1892

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 27, 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 196, Ed. 1, Saturday, February 27, 1892 (open access)

The Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 196, Ed. 1, Saturday, February 27, 1892

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 27, 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 247, Ed. 1, Wednesday, April 27, 1892 (open access)

The Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 247, Ed. 1, Wednesday, April 27, 1892

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 27, 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carrier Iron for Draw Bars. (open access)

Carrier Iron for Draw Bars.

Patent for a new and improved carrier iron for draw-bars. This design "is to provide an improved draw-bar support exceedingly strong and durable in construction and very cheap and simple which will prevent spreading of the draft-timbers or sagging of the draw-bar and which can be reversed" (lines 19-24). It consists in "[t]he combination, in a car, of the draft-timbers, the draw-bar between the same, and the loop-shaped carrier-iron in one piece embracing said timbers and passing above and below and supporting the draw-bar and secured to said timbers by bolts" (lines 78-83).
Date: September 27, 1892
Creator: Minton, William Dryden & Douglas, Alexander Stewart
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for an improvement of car coupling design so as to be automatic so that it can couple and uncouple without needing a person to move from car to car that can be used alongside pin and link couplings (lines 11-16).
Date: December 27, 1892
Creator: Millican, Joel W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for improvements to railroad car couplings granted to Conrad H. Carpenter. Improvements simplify the coupling construction and allow the cars to be couples automatically.
Date: December 27, 1892
Creator: Carpenter, Conrad H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher and Fastener. (open access)

Wire Stretcher and Fastener.

Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher and fastener. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a bar constructed of metal and provided at one end with a claw and having its other end bent at right angles to form an arm provided with a slot or bifurcation forming prongs, one of the prongs being longer than the other, the stud secured to the bar on the side opposite the arm and arranged adjacent to the same and forming a hammer-head, and a handle arranged on the same side of the stud and located adjacent to the claw" (lines 55-65).
Date: September 27, 1892
Creator: Chamberlain, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide Distributor. (open access)

Insecticide Distributor.

Patent for a new and improved bug sprayer. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a base, a bellows mounted thereon, a receptacle arranged in advance of the bellows and adapted to contain poison to be distributed, a forwardly-projecting discharge-tube, laterally-extending discharge-tubes comprising inner rigid sections, outer rigid sections having series of discharge-nozzles, and flexible couplings connecting the rigid sections, and the braces having their inner ends pivoted to the base and their outer ends pivoted to the outer sections and supporting the same" (lines 75-86).
Date: September 27, 1892
Creator: Talley, Reuben J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vest and Drawers Holder. (open access)

Vest and Drawers Holder.

Patent for new and improved suspenders. This design consists, "[a]s an improved article of manufacture, the vest and drawers holder . . . consisting of the main bar having the arm bent downward from its upper end and provided with a clasp for connecting with the drawers, the main bar being also provided near its upper and lower ends with safety-pins for connection with the vest" (lines 60-67).
Date: September 27, 1892
Creator: Lustig, Albert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump. (open access)

Pump.

Patent for "a pump that is simple, durable, and efiicient, which can be manufactured at a comparatively small cost, and which can be readily cleaned and repaired. It consists, preferably, in a double-cylinder pump that is adapted to operate by a direct lift without a valve in the plunger" (lines 8-15).
Date: September 27, 1892
Creator: Tom, Joseph C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History