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Baling-Press
Patent for a new baling press design with description of parts and their functions, with illustrations.
Date:
March 2, 1886
Creator:
Bryan, Walter S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed Cotton.
Patent for cotton house with bins and conveyors that prevent the cotton from being contaminated.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.
Patent for a "mechanism for handling seed-cotton [...] to provide novel means for conveying said cotton directly from the wagon or from the cotton-house to the ginning mechanism, whereby the cotton is cleansed and dried during its passage" (lines 7-13). It also helps to prevent fires and contamination of ginned cotton, and to reduce labor handling seed-cotton.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Handling Lint Cotton.
Patent for a new and improved mechanism for handling lint-cotton. This design "has for its object to avoid the accumulation of dust and light particles of fiber in the atmosphere of the gin-house, to greatly reduce the dangers of destructive conflagrations in ginning establishments, to avoid the repeated handling of the cotton between the gins and the press, and to secure a more perfect separation from the cotton of dust and other foreign substances" (lines 8-16).
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoisting Attachment for Wagon-Beds.
Patent for a low cost, removable hoisting attachment for wagon beds, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
May 2, 1893
Creator:
Baugh, Edward H. & Selvidge, Charles W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton or Other Press.
Patent for "that class of cotton-presses in which duplex bale or press boxes arranged to swing upon centers are adapted to be brought in line with a stationary platen and a movable follower" (lines 7-11), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for improvements in cotton choppers and cultivators by using “the shearing action between a rotary hoe and a cutter-bar traveling along beside the row” (lines 20-22) to cut off the cotton. Illustration is included.
Date:
June 2, 1891
Creator:
Ferriott, Charles L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The State Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, May 2, 1902
Weekly newspaper from Mexia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
May 2, 1902
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The State Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 2, 1905
Weekly newspaper from Mexia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 2, 1905
Creator:
Houx, N. P.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 2, 1909
Weekly newspaper from Mexia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 2, 1909
Creator:
Houx, N. P.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 2, 1909
Weekly newspaper from Mexia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 2, 1909
Creator:
Houx, N. P.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1910
Weekly newspaper from Mexia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 2, 1910
Creator:
Houx, N. P.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The State Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1904
Weekly newspaper from Mexia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 2, 1904
Creator:
Houx, N. P.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The State Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 1905
Weekly newspaper from Mexia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
February 2, 1905
Creator:
Houx, N. P.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The State Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1905
Weekly newspaper from Mexia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 2, 1905
Creator:
Houx, N. P.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 2, 1908
Weekly newspaper from Mexia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 2, 1908
Creator:
Houx, N. P.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 2, 1924
Weekly newspaper from Mexia, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 2, 1924
Creator:
Houx, N. P.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Mexia Weekly Herald. (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 2, 1915
Weekly newspaper from Mexia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 2, 1915
Creator:
Houx, N. P.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Mexia Weekly Herald. (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 2, 1915
Weekly newspaper from Mexia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 2, 1915
Creator:
Houx, N. P.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Mexia Weekly Herald. (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1916
Weekly newspaper from Mexia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 2, 1916
Creator:
Houx, N. P.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Mexia Weekly Herald. (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 2, 1916
Weekly newspaper from Mexia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 2, 1916
Creator:
Houx, N. P.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Mexia Weekly Herald. (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 2, 1914
Weekly newspaper from Mexia, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 2, 1914
Creator:
Houx, N. P.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, July 2, 1943
Weekly newspaper from Mexia, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 2, 1943
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, June 2, 1944
Weekly newspaper from Mexia, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 2, 1944
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History