Dallas County Probate Case 2055: Pierce, Mary & Louisa (Minors) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 2055: Pierce, Mary & Louisa (Minors)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Pierce, Mary & Louisa (Minors) and J.B. Pierce (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1892-05-07/1893-11-11
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Operated Boot or Show Blackening Machine (open access)

Coin-Operated Boot or Show Blackening Machine

Patent for a shoe or boot blackening machine that operates automatically with the depositing of a coin, and as such drastically decreases labor and time needed for shoe or boot blackening.
Date: October 11, 1892
Creator: Knight, Nute B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins (open access)

Apparatus for Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins

Patent for an improvement to seed feeders "to improve and simplify the feed mechanisms of such machines or apparatus and provide means whereby a number of rigidly depending chutes
Date: December 20, 1892
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells. (open access)

Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells.

Patent for a new and improved artesian-well borer. This design "has for its object to furnish a combination tool which will wear or cut the harder grades or rock frequently met with in boring wells of this class, and also to furnish a tool which will be harder than the common steel too or auger, thereby dispensing with the necessity of taking out and sharpening" (lines 13-20). It consists in "[a] fluted hemispherical mass of corundum for boring Artesian wells, said mass being provided with cutting-edges which extend from the apex to the base, [and] a metallic core embedded within the mass" (lines 16-20).
Date: April 5, 1892
Creator: Brown, Frank O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Elevating, Distributing, and Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins (open access)

Apparatus for Elevating, Distributing, and Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins

Patent for improvements to cotton gins so that seed cotton can be fed to two gins at the same time, while using the same power as would normally be necessary for one gin.
Date: April 12, 1892
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Pump and Motor. (open access)

Combined Pump and Motor.

Patent for a new and improved pump and motor. This design "is to produce a simple apparatus which may be connected with a main water or service pipe and which will operate by the fluctuation of pressure in said main or pipe so as to operate the pump. The device is especially advantageous in raising water from a well or cistern to a tank placed at a higher elevation, or it may be placed on a pump in place of an air-chamber and used as a feed-pump for a boiler or on a hydraulic ram as an auxiliary pump" (lines 9-18).
Date: May 3, 1892
Creator: Henderson, Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for car-coupling. The object of this invention is to provide an improved automatic car-coupling of simple, durable, and effective construction that will permit the necessary longitudinal and lateral play of the coupling-link to correspond with inequalities of the track, facilitate the turning of curves, and enable the coupling to accommodate itself to draw-heads of unequal height.
Date: January 19, 1892
Creator: Lemon, Eli Jeremiah
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 17, 1892 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 17, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 17, 1892
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 1892 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 24, 1892
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1892 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 1, 1892
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 8, 1892 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 8, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 8, 1892
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 15, 1892 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 15, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 15, 1892
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1892 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 22, 1892
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 29, 1892 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 29, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 29, 1892
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1892 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 7, 1892
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1892 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 14, 1892
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 21, 1892 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 21, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 21, 1892
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1892 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 28, 1892
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1892 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 4, 1892
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1892 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 11, 1892
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 1892 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 18, 1892
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 1892 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 25, 1892
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 1892 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 3, 1892
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 10, 1892 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 10, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 10, 1892
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History