79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3525, Chapter 770 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3525, Chapter 770

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties, functions, operations, and financing of the Parker County Special Utility District; providing authority to issue bonds.
Date: June 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1826, Chapter 895 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1826, Chapter 895

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties, functions, operations, and financing of the Parker County Special Utility District; granting the power of eminent domain.
Date: June 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3992, Chapter 947 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3992, Chapter 947

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the county courts at law in Parker County.
Date: June 15, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3993, Chapter 785 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3993, Chapter 785

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the compensation of the members of the juvenile board of Parker County.
Date: June 15, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bridge. (open access)

Bridge.

Patent for "a simplified and cheapened construction of bridge whereby the weight and strain will be more equally divided and the braces so arranged that expansion and contraction laterally are avoided, while permitting of the necessary expansion and contraction longitudinally of the bridge." (Lines 13-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 16, 1896
Creator: Mitchell, Hirtie F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vibrating Churn. (open access)

Vibrating Churn.

Patent for improvements in vibrating churns in which the dasher is given a rapid rotary vibrating movement and with but very little exertion to the operator. (Lines 30-32) Illustration is included.
Date: June 23, 1891
Creator: Miller, Luther Alison
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insulator. (open access)

Insulator.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable insulator meant for protecting wires for telephones and telegraphs. The insulator has two sections with recesses and locking apertures.
Date: June 18, 1895
Creator: Patterson, James M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Bucket. (open access)

Well Bucket.

Patent for a new and improved well-bucket. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the well-bucket, having the rabbeted opening in its bottom, and provided with the apertured cross-bars of the valve-rod passing through the apertures in said cross-bars and the opening in the bottom of the bucket, and the valve secured to the lower end of said rod" (lines 56-62).
Date: June 10, 1884
Creator: Foat, Robert H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment (open access)

Plow Attachment

Patent for an inexpensive and simple plow attachment meant to convert the single foot plow stock into a double shovel plow or a gang plow. The attachment is adjustable in order to "straddle the rows to be cultivated; and finally, means for adjusting the standards of the plow whereby the same are adapted to run at any desired depth" (lines 16-20).
Date: June 5, 1894
Creator: Jensen, Ole T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock Car. (open access)

Stock Car.

Patent for an improved stock-car for transporting cattle and horses on railways.
Date: June 28, 1881
Creator: Jones, Jeremiah C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Drill. (open access)

Grain-Drill.

Patent for an improved grain drill that is simpler and more efficient than other grain drills. It consists of a disk with a central hub, an annular recess around the hub, segmented washers, radial slots, radial seed apertures, gravity slides, and stems on the slides.
Date: June 6, 1893
Creator: Lawrence, William G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rein Holder. (open access)

Rein Holder.

Patent for a new and improved rein-holder. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a base-plate and spaced posts upon one face of the said plate grooved on their adjacent sides, of a spring-actuated lever provided with a cylindrical surface at one end and a flange projecting from the outer face beyond said surface, the opposite extremity of the lever being curved to form, essentially, a hook, the cylindrical surface being adapted for engagement with one post and the hook extremity with the other post" (lines 71-81).
Date: June 4, 1889
Creator: Turman, William F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Motor. (open access)

Electric Motor.

Patent for a new and improved electric motor. This design "consists, essentially, in such combination of an automatic circuit-breaker with a bar of soft iron secured centrally on a shaft journaled in bearings secured to the motor frame and rotating within a coil or helix that the rotation of said bar will continuously make and break the circuit, and that the action of the circuit-breaker will cause the continuous rotation of the bar" (lines 17-26).
Date: June 22, 1886
Creator: Emley, James E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Methodist. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, June 22, 1883 (open access)

Texas Methodist. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, June 22, 1883

Newspaper from Weatherford, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 22, 1883
Creator: Prince, William
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Herald. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 139, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 24, 1908 (open access)

The Daily Herald. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 139, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 24, 1908

Daily newspaper from Weatherford, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 24, 1908
Creator: McEachin, Hec A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Sun (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1887 (open access)

The Sun (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1887

Weekly newspaper from Weatherford, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 16, 1887
Creator: Hoeny, John, Sr.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Sun (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 1889 (open access)

The Sun (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Weatherford, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 27, 1889
Creator: Hoeny, John, Sr.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Weatherford Times. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 26, 1886 (open access)

The Weatherford Times. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 26, 1886

Weekly newspaper from Weatherford, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 26, 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Weatherford Enquirer. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1892 (open access)

The Weatherford Enquirer. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Weatherford, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 9, 1892
Creator: Vincent, Jas. U.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Weatherford Enquirer. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1892 (open access)

The Weatherford Enquirer. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Weatherford, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 16, 1892
Creator: Vincent, Jas. U.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Weatherford Enquirer. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 23, 1892 (open access)

The Weatherford Enquirer. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 23, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Weatherford, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 23, 1892
Creator: Vincent, Jas. U.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Weatherford Enquirer. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1892 (open access)

The Weatherford Enquirer. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Weatherford, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 30, 1892
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Confederate Tax Receipt from H. Maxwell] (open access)

[Confederate Tax Receipt from H. Maxwell]

Confederate tax receipt of one hundred and twenty five dollars from H. Maxwell.
Date: June 1864
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Former Camp Wolters Historical Aerial Photographic Analysis, June 2003 (open access)

Former Camp Wolters Historical Aerial Photographic Analysis, June 2003

Report containing aerial photography of portions of Parker and Palo Pinto Counties, Texas, for the purpose of mapping historical locations of Camp Wolters onto the modern landscape.
Date: June 2003
Creator: Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History