[Written land agreement between H. Howard, A.J. Rigsby and J.M. Northworth, October 11 1888] (open access)

[Written land agreement between H. Howard, A.J. Rigsby and J.M. Northworth, October 11 1888]

This document is an agreement by Hartsford Howard, party of the first part, and A.J. Rigsby and J.M. Northworth, parties of the second part, on a portion of land. The land was part of the Washington-Howard Survey in Hood County. The agreement was for the cultivation of cotton, corn, wheat, oats and millet. The document was witnessed by J.C. Donathan.
Date: October 11, 1888
Creator: Donathon F.C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 162, Ed. 1, Wednesday, January 11, 1888 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 162, Ed. 1, Wednesday, January 11, 1888

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 11, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 131, Ed. 1, Sunday, November 11, 1888 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 131, Ed. 1, Sunday, November 11, 1888

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 11, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 161, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 11, 1888 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 161, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 11, 1888

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 11, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 273, Ed. 1, Friday, May 11, 1888 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 273, Ed. 1, Friday, May 11, 1888

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 11, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 304, Ed. 1, Monday, June 11, 1888 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 304, Ed. 1, Monday, June 11, 1888

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 11, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 243, Ed. 1, Wednesday, April 11, 1888 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 243, Ed. 1, Wednesday, April 11, 1888

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 11, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 193, Ed. 1, Saturday, February 11, 1888 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 193, Ed. 1, Saturday, February 11, 1888

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 11, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 222, Ed. 1, Sunday, March 11, 1888 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 222, Ed. 1, Sunday, March 11, 1888

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 11, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 100, Ed. 1, Thursday, October 11, 1888 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 100, Ed. 1, Thursday, October 11, 1888

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 11, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Weekly Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 21, Ed. 1, Friday, May 11, 1888 (open access)

Fort Worth Weekly Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 21, Ed. 1, Friday, May 11, 1888

Weekly newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 11, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 29, Ed. 1, Friday, May 11, 1888 (open access)

The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 29, Ed. 1, Friday, May 11, 1888

Weekly newspaper from San Saba, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 11, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 45, Ed. 1, Wednesday, January 11, 1888 (open access)

Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 45, Ed. 1, Wednesday, January 11, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 11, 1888
Creator: Crisp, John C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 72, Ed. 1, Saturday, February 11, 1888 (open access)

Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 72, Ed. 1, Saturday, February 11, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 11, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 97, Ed. 1, Sunday, March 11, 1888 (open access)

Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 97, Ed. 1, Sunday, March 11, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 11, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 131, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 11, 1888 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 131, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 11, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 11, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 79, Ed. 1, Thursday, October 11, 1888 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 79, Ed. 1, Thursday, October 11, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 11, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 25, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 11, 1888 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 25, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 11, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 11, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 52, Ed. 1, Tuesday, September 11, 1888 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 52, Ed. 1, Tuesday, September 11, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 11, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for "a simple, light, and durable press, which may be conveniently manipulated in either a vertical or horizontal position and readily transported in a field from stack to stack of hay. . .wherein the hay may be expeditiously and effectively baled by two persons" (lines 9-16).
Date: December 11, 1888
Creator: Freytag, Anton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Uncoupling Device. (open access)

Car Uncoupling Device.

Patent for a new and improved uncoupling device for railroad cars. This design consists in "a draw-head provided with a vertically-movable coupling-pin support and lifting frame, a spring holding the coupling-pin support in raised position, a catch for holding the pin-support in lowered position, and a lever mechanism for releasing the catch and effecting the uncoupling of a car" (lines 7-14).
Date: December 11, 1888
Creator: Rutledge, William O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Truck. (open access)

Car Truck.

Patent for a new and improved car-truck. This design "relates to railway-car trucks; and it consists in providing the axle inside the wheel with a supplementary journal and shoulder and a supplementary journal-box supported above the inside journal by the truck-frame, said supplementary journal-box being immediately over the inside journal and arranged so as to support the truck on the inside journal should the outside journal become broken or inoperative by means of a hot box or otherwise" (lines 10-20).
Date: September 11, 1888
Creator: Tull, Francis Shalis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cartridge-Loading Machine (open access)

Cartridge-Loading Machine

Patent for improvements for loading cartridge, included detailed drawings.
Date: September 11, 1888
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock (open access)

Lock

Patent for "improvements in locks, having special reference to locks for the doors of freight-cars; and it has for its object to provide a strong lock so constructed as to be comparatively safe from the attacks of lockpickers" (lines 8-13).
Date: September 11, 1888
Creator: Bergman, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History