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Improvement in Ditching-Machines.
Patent for an improved ditching machine design that will "easily and rapidly cut or excavate, on the surface of the ground, soil, clay, or soft stone, a ditch or trench of any reasonable width or depth suitable" (lines 33-37) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Austin, Matthew J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for an improvement in the design of corn and cotton cultivators, including illustrations.
Date:
January 21, 1873
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Reciprocating Churns.
Patent for an invention that, "relates to certain improvements in motive power for churns, its object being to provide a compact system of automatically-operating gearing, that may be readily attached to the top of an ordinay churn" (lines 7-11). Illustration included.
Date:
January 23, 1877
Creator:
Miller, Noah J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for "improvements in cotton-presses, it's object being to produce a compact and efficient apparatus, adapted to be secure in the floor between the first and second stories of a building, in such a manner that the press-box can be filled and the cotton made up into bales in the upper story, while the pressing operation is effected from below." (Lines 7-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Thompson, Robert C. & Thompson, Joseph N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Quilting Frame and Table.
Patent for a quilting frame which can be quickly set up and collapsed, which folds up to occupy a minimum amount of space, and which can be converted for use as cutting and ironing table. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Burns, Robert Llewellwynn
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the draw-head provided with the hole through its under side and the vertical guide-grooves in its exterior sides, of the stirrup sliding in said grooves and provided with a tongue at its lower and hooks at its upper parts, and a lifting-device—such as a rod or bar—adapted to engage with the upper part of the stirrup for raising it in the said external guide-grooves and causing the said tongue to raise the coupling-link in the draw-head" (lines 4-14).
Date:
January 7, 1890
Creator:
Mason, James A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back Band for Harness.
Patent for a new and improved back-band for harnesses. This design "relates to back-bands for that class of harnesses wherein chains are used for traces; and [the] invention consists, principally, in providing the back-band at its ends with metal loops through which the traces pass to protect the leather of the back-band from wear. The invention also consists in connecting snap-hoops to the metal end-pieces by means of metal loops" (lines 7-15).
Date:
January 18, 1887
Creator:
Johnson, Ike
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination, with a frame, a hopper, and a wheel provided with pins projecting from its sides, of the slide provided with the pins, the [other] slide provided with the inclined slots, the levers pivoted to the frame, the links connected to the said slides and levers, the stirrer-shaft provided with crank-arms, and the [other] link" (lines 21-29).
Date:
January 4, 1887
Creator:
Hasty, James P. & Hise, George L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Power Fan.
Patent for a new and improved power fan. This design consists in "the combination of the slowly-revolving spring-barrel and the toothed gearing, the pitman-rod operated from the revolving gearing by a crank, the fan-lever connected to the pitman-rod, a weight sliding upon the fan-lever, and a ratchet mechanism for automatically raising the sliding weight" (lines 78-84).
Date:
January 10, 1888
Creator:
Mason, James Alexander; Mulkey, Elijah F. & Houston, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Chair
Patent for "a simple and convenient chair which may be folded to render it portable, so that it may be carried from place to place by the dentist when his practice is away from his office" (lines 9-13).
Date:
January 29, 1889
Creator:
Moorman, Zach B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Honey-Grove Enterprise (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 7, 1871
Weekly newspaper from Honey Grove, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 7, 1871
Creator:
Burnett, Tom R.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Honey-Grove Enterprise (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 31, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 28, 1871
Weekly newspaper from Honey Grove, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 28, 1871
Creator:
Burnett, Tom R.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Political Cartoon by Clifford Berryman depicting Sam Rayburn and John Nance Garner
Drawing of Sam Rayburn shaking hands with Vice President John Nance Garner. A political cartoon by C.K. Berryman depicting caricatures of Sam Rayburn, dressed as a cowboy holding onto the reins of a donkey noted to be "HOUSE MAJORITY." Rayburn is shaking hands with Garner. Garner says, "NOW RIDE HIM COWBOY!" This is a commentary on Rayburn's election to Majority Leader. Berryman autographed the cartoon in the lower right corner with the words, "TO MY GOOD OLD TEXAN FRIEND SAM RAYBURN WHO WAS 'BORN TO LEAD' WITH HEARTY ASSURANCE THAT I'LL BE ON THE CHEERLINE! LET'ER GO!!! C.K. BERRYMAN, EVENING STAR, JAN. 5, 1937"
Date:
January 5, 1937
Creator:
Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949
Object Type:
Artwork
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-12
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Is Fannin County liable to Fannin County Levee Improvement District No. 1 for taxes which accrued on county land after acquisition and use by the county as a poor farm?
Date:
January 24, 1947
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Terrestrial Vertebrates of Fannin County, Texas
The purposes of this thesis were (1) to provide some knowledge of the herptiles and mammals of this area, (2) to clarify the distribution of many of these animals in this section of Texas, and (3) to provide additional ecological information about the area.
Date:
January 1970
Creator:
McCuller, Ronald E.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, January 3, 1896
Weekly newspaper from Honey Grove, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 3, 1896
Creator:
Lowry, J. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, January 17, 1896
Weekly newspaper from Honey Grove, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 17, 1896
Creator:
Lowry, J. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, January 31, 1896
Weekly newspaper from Honey Grove, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 31, 1896
Creator:
Lowry, J. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1896
Weekly newspaper from Honey Grove, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 24, 1896
Creator:
Lowry, J. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, January 10, 1896
Weekly newspaper from Honey Grove, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 10, 1896
Creator:
Lowry, J. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, January 14, 1910
Weekly newspaper from Honey Grove, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 14, 1910
Creator:
Lowry, J. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, January 21, 1910
Weekly newspaper from Honey Grove, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 21, 1910
Creator:
Lowry, J. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, January 7, 1910
Weekly newspaper from Honey Grove, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 7, 1910
Creator:
Lowry, J. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, January 28, 1910
Weekly newspaper from Honey Grove, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 28, 1910
Creator:
Lowry, J. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History