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Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 76, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 1, 1888 (open access)

Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 76, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 1, 1888

Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 1, 1888
Creator: Garrett, O. H. P.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Business Ledger] (open access)

[Business Ledger]

Ledger containing financial documentation broken down by month, including expenses and income listed by customer.
Date: 1888-04/1895-05
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1175: Givens, Geo. W. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 1175: Givens, Geo. W. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Givens, Geo. W. (died August 11, 1880 in Palo Pinto County, Texas) and Sallie E. Givens et al (Executor or Guardian).
Date: 1888-04-01/1900-01-06
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 233, Ed. 1, Sunday, April 1, 1888 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 233, Ed. 1, Sunday, April 1, 1888

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 1, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Freestone County

Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Freestone County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: April 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 108, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 1, 1888 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Hesperian. (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 108, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 1, 1888

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 1, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 341, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 1, 1888 (open access)

The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 341, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 1, 1888

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 1, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. Eighth Year, No. 79, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 1, 1888 (open access)

El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. Eighth Year, No. 79, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 1, 1888

Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 1, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 48, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 1, 1888 (open access)

The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 48, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 1, 1888

Weekly newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 1, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Travis County Clerk Records: County Court Civil Minutes C (open access)

Travis County Clerk Records: County Court Civil Minutes C

Recorded copies of minutes of Travis County civil cases heard in county court from April 1888 to April 1894, showing term of court, date of proceedings, case number, style of case, names of attorneys, nature of matter before the court and proceedings thereon, orders and judgments of the court, signatures of presiding judge and attorneys, clerk's attestation, date filed, and date recorded. Arranged chronologically by date recorded.
Date: 1888-04/1894-04
Creator: Travis County (Tex.). Clerk's Office.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Travis County Probate Records: Probate Minutes O (open access)

Travis County Probate Records: Probate Minutes O

Travis County probate minutes documenting probate cases from April 1888 to January 1889. Recorded copies of proceedings of the county court sitting as a probate court in cases involving estates of deceased individuals. Shows term of court, date of proceedings, names of officers present, subject of hearing, names of interested parties present, orders of the court, signed approval of county judge, and clerk's attestation. Arranged chronologically by date recorded.
Date: 1888-04/1889-01
Creator: Travis County (Tex.). Clerk's Office.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 124, Ed. 1 Monday, April 2, 1888 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 124, Ed. 1 Monday, April 2, 1888

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 2, 1888
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 234, Ed. 1, Monday, April 2, 1888 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 234, Ed. 1, Monday, April 2, 1888

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 2, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 1802, Ed. 1 Monday, April 2, 1888 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 1802, Ed. 1 Monday, April 2, 1888

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 2, 1888
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 342, Ed. 1 Monday, April 2, 1888 (open access)

The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 342, Ed. 1 Monday, April 2, 1888

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 2, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from C.I. Scofield to Judge David H. Scott, April 2, 1888] (open access)

[Letter from C.I. Scofield to Judge David H. Scott, April 2, 1888]

Letter from Cyrus I. Scofield to Judge David Howell Scott, April 2, 1888. Discusses Mr. La Bach and how long he should be allowed to continue in his pastorate. On Letterhead of the American Home Missionary Society.
Date: April 2, 1888
Creator: Scofield, C. I. (Cyrus Ingerson), 1843-1921.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 64, Ed. 1 Monday, April 2, 1888 (open access)

San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 64, Ed. 1 Monday, April 2, 1888

Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 2, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in baling-presses." (Lines 5-6) Illustrations are included.
Date: April 3, 1888
Creator: Archer, Roger W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 77, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 3, 1888 (open access)

Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 77, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 3, 1888

Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 3, 1888
Creator: Garrett, O. H. P.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dynamo Electric Machine (open access)

Dynamo Electric Machine

Patent for Dynamo Electric Machine. "in our improved dynamo-electric machine we combine in the armature the advantages due to iron wire and to separated disks or flat rings, and then binding them together at equal intervals." (lines18-23)
Date: April 3, 1888
Creator: Crowdus, Walter A. & Sutton, Henry M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 125, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 3, 1888 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 125, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 3, 1888

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 3, 1888
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire Kindler. (open access)

Fire Kindler.

Patent for a new and improved fire starter. This design "has for its object to provide novel means for making comparatively inexpensive fire-kindlers; and to such end the invention consists, essentially, in a vessel having two chambers, one capable of being opened at the top and adapted to contain ashes, and the other closed, except as to a bottom passage in communication with the ash-chamber, and adapted to contain a combustible fluid—such as petroleum oil or other liquid hydro-carbon—which flows through the said bottom passage to saturate the ashes and prepare them for use" (lines 8-20).
Date: April 3, 1888
Creator: Streeter, George D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire Kindler. (open access)

Fire Kindler.

Patent for a new and improved fire starter. This design "is to provide novel means for determining when the oil is exhausted from the oil vessel and to provide novel means for keeping the ashes from direct contact with the oil-supply openings . . . [for] ashes possess great capillary attraction and take up more hydro-carbon fluid than is requisite when the ashes are dry and not tightly packed, so that the ashes become soft and mushy" (lines 12-21).
Date: April 3, 1888
Creator: Streeter, George D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 235, Ed. 1, Tuesday, April 3, 1888 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 235, Ed. 1, Tuesday, April 3, 1888

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 3, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History