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Johnson County
Map of Johnson and Hood Counties, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
April 1863
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplings of that class which effect an automatic coupling by means of a gravity hook; and it consists in certain improvements in the construction and operation of the same" (lines 9-13).
Date:
April 24, 1883
Creator:
Whiting, Lewis Peck
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swinging Gate.
Patent for a new and improved swinging gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the main posts . . . [one] having the shallow recesses therein, of hinges, slotted batten, bell-crank lever connected with the upper hinge-bolt, and with a pin in the slot in the batten, spring, gravity-catch, gate, and roller" (lines 29-35).
Date:
April 10, 1888
Creator:
Sipe, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Cleburne Chronicle. (Cleburne, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, April 5, 1889
Weekly newspaper from Cleburne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 5, 1889
Creator:
Scurlock, A. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Johnson County Review. (Cleburne, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, April 3, 1891
Weekly newspaper from Cleburne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 3, 1891
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for improvements in washing-machines by using a combination of adjustable stationary rubbing-board and a rotary rubbing-cylinder to regulate the pressure on the clothes and at the same time, clothes can be cleaned without injury to them. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 7, 1891
Creator:
Polk, Kindrick Ford
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pumping-Engine.
Patent for a pumping engine that uses a "combined piston rod and plunger acting in the same vertical line and carrying a crank pin box and cross heads for driving the governing fly wheel" (lines 12-15). Mounting and dismounting this engine is simple, and the engine has easily accessible packing ends of the steam and water cylinders. Also, the adjustable yoke is improved in this engine.
Date:
April 25, 1893
Creator:
Clarkson, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shoe for Bridges.
Patent for a new and improved bridge shoe including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 10, 1894
Creator:
Seaman, George S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cleburne Chronicle. (Cleburne, Tex.), Ed. 1 Saturday, April 27, 1895
Weekly newspaper from Cleburne, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 27, 1895
Creator:
Scurlock, A. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alvarado Bulletin. (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, April 3, 1896
Weekly newspaper from Alvarado, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 3, 1896
Creator:
Pardue, P. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alvarado Bulletin. (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, April 10, 1896
Weekly newspaper from Alvarado, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 10, 1896
Creator:
Pardue, P. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alvarado Bulletin. (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, April 17, 1896
Weekly newspaper from Alvarado, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 17, 1896
Creator:
Pardue, P. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alvarado Bulletin. (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, April 24, 1896
Weekly newspaper from Alvarado, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 24, 1896
Creator:
Pardue, P. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alvarado Bulletin. (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1898
Weekly newspaper from Alvarado, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 1, 1898
Creator:
Pardue, P. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alvarado Bulletin. (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1898
Weekly newspaper from Alvarado, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 8, 1898
Creator:
Pardue, P. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alvarado Bulletin. (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, April 15, 1898
Weekly newspaper from Alvarado, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 15, 1898
Creator:
Pardue, P. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alvarado Bulletin. (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, April 22, 1898
Weekly newspaper from Alvarado, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 22, 1898
Creator:
Pardue, P. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alvarado Bulletin. (Alvarado, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1898
Weekly newspaper from Alvarado, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 29, 1898
Creator:
Pardue, P. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard from George Stewart to John Stewart, April 30, 1899]
This is a document from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is written by George Stewart and is addressed to John Stewart. In this postcard, Stewart discusses the goings-on in Johnson County in Texas. The news includes: updates on his and the family's well-being, a discussion about the planting of cottonseed, details about the grasshoppers eating all the wheat and mostly all of the corn, a message to Bill Evans about renting land, and updates about correspondences received. He closes the letter by noting that should John write soon with all the news.
Date:
April 30, 1899
Creator:
Stewart, George
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dental Dam-Holder.
Patent for improvement in dental dam-holders.
Date:
April 17, 1900
Creator:
Myers, Samuel M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Display-Rack
Patent for a display rack.
Date:
April 21, 1903
Creator:
Wilbanks, William N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Presidential Stop in Grand View, Texas]
Copy photo of the President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt's presidential stop in Grand View, Texas on April 8, 1905. The train made a stop at the Grand View, Texas MKT depot. Roosevelt is visible on the train platform. Many people came to meet the train.
Date:
April 8, 1905
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail Bag Catchers and Deliverer
Patent for a mail bag catcher and deliverer. This invention is designed for the retrieval and delivery of mailbags by passing trains. Illustration included.
Date:
April 21, 1908
Creator:
Anderson, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack.
Patent for a mechanical device improvements to lift heavy loads or to apply great forces.
Date:
April 29, 1913
Creator:
Graves, James M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History