Heat-Producing Process. (open access)

Heat-Producing Process.

Patent for Improvements in Heat-Producing Processes by way of "process of producing heat and conserving heat..." for use in various types of furnaces (lines 9-10).
Date: October 15, 1918
Creator: Bone, David R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Funnel and Gage. (open access)

Funnel and Gage.

Patent for a funnel and gage with a mechanism used to indicate "when the proper amount of water has been inserted in the battery" (lines 14-15).
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Burkett, Joseph Benjamin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Luby's Anniversary] captions transcript

[News Clip: Luby's Anniversary]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 15, 1992, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Harness-Rack. (open access)

Harness-Rack.

Patent for a simple harness rack that can be attached to a wagon bed, and is meant to conveniently hold harnesses when the horses are not hitched. The device can be turned out of the way when not being used.
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: Kitching, John Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Copperas Cove Leader-Press (Copperas Cove, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 11, 2013 (open access)

Copperas Cove Leader-Press (Copperas Cove, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 11, 2013

Semi-weekly newspaper from Copperas Cove, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 11, 2013
Creator: Morris, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Copperas Cove Leader-Press (Copperas Cove, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 4, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 15, 2013 (open access)

Copperas Cove Leader-Press (Copperas Cove, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 4, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Semi-weekly newspaper from Copperas Cove, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 15, 2013
Creator: Morris, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Copperas Cove Leader-Press (Copperas Cove, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, October 18, 2013 (open access)

Copperas Cove Leader-Press (Copperas Cove, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, October 18, 2013

Semi-weekly newspaper from Copperas Cove, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 18, 2013
Creator: Morris, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Copperas Cove Leader-Press (Copperas Cove, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 6, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 22, 2013 (open access)

Copperas Cove Leader-Press (Copperas Cove, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 6, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Semi-weekly newspaper from Copperas Cove, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 22, 2013
Creator: Morris, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Copperas Cove Leader-Press (Copperas Cove, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 2013 (open access)

Copperas Cove Leader-Press (Copperas Cove, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 2013

Semi-weekly newspaper from Copperas Cove, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 25, 2013
Creator: Morris, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Copperas Cove Leader-Press (Copperas Cove, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 29, 2013 (open access)

Copperas Cove Leader-Press (Copperas Cove, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Semi-weekly newspaper from Copperas Cove, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 29, 2013
Creator: Morris, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout, October 13, 1873] (open access)

[Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout, October 13, 1873]

Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to his wife, Junia Roberts Osterhout. He wrote to inform her that he would be returning home later than he expected. He mentioned that he received a "draft" from Austin and that she should cash it in order to purchase bushels of corn.
Date: October 13, 1873
Creator: Osterhout, John Patterson
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout, October 16, 1875] (open access)

[Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout, October 16, 1875]

Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to his wife, Junia Roberts Osterhout. He wrote to his wife while he traveled and worked as a judge. He informed her of money he had sent her way and where he planned to put the rest of his money. John ended the letter by letting her know he had arrived at his destination safely.
Date: October 16, 1875
Creator: Osterhout, John Patterson
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout, October 24, 1973] (open access)

[Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout, October 24, 1973]

Letter from John Patterson Osterhout to his wife, Junia Roberts Osterhout. He wrote his wife a short letter to let her know he might be returning home for a week before returning to his work as a judge.
Date: October 24, 1973
Creator: Osterhout, John Patterson
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of a close-up detail of individual plants in the excellent composition on normal upland site. The predominantly tall plants, starting at the left, are tall dropseed, a single stalk of sideoats grama, a large clump of little bluestem, and, the plume-like one toward the right, Indian grass. See TX-43, 965A for the percentage composition of the grasses on this site. TX-43, 965B.
Date: October 9, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of close up of grasses [text too faded for legibility]. TX-43, 968.
Date: October 9, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of close-up detail of individual plants in the good composition on normal upland site. The predominant grasses, starting at left, are prairie coneflower; redseed plantains; sideoats grama; the low-growing buffalo grass; broomweed; in the center, tall dropseed; the predominant thistle; silver bluestem; Indian grass and the last one, to the right, little bluestem. TX-43, 966B.
Date: October 9, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of grasses and other plants [text too faded for legibility]. TX-43, 966B.
Date: October 9, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of close-up detail of individual plants in the good composition on normal upland site. The predominant grasses, starting at left, are prairie coneflower; redseed plantains; sideoats grama; the low-growing buffalo grass; broomweed; in the center, tall dropseed; the predominant thistle; silver bluestem; Indian grass and the last one, to the right, little bluestem. TX-43, 966B.
Date: October 9, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of Guy Lockhart driving the tractor while Emmett Stewart, Soil Conservation service technician, is on the combine during a harvest of a King Ranch strain of Yellow Bluestem. The stand is 2 years old. In 1946 it yielded 300 pounds of seed on 4 acres. It was combined twice that year. The yield, possibly reduced by drought, was about the same this year. TX-43, 963.
Date: October 9, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Photograph of the harvesting of two-year old stand of King ranch strian of Yellow Bluestem. This stand yielded 300 pounds of seed from four areas in 1946. TX-43-964.
Date: October 9, 1947
Creator: Reid, Louis E.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for "new and useful improvements in plows; and it has for its object the production of simple and highly-efficient means for regulating the depth and penetration of the plowshare in all kinds and conditions of soil." (Lines 10-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 22, 1895
Creator: Sinclair, James & Sellers, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-285 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-285

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: What is the legal authority for the creation of Independent School Districts at the Gainesville State School, the Gatesville State School and the Colored Girls Training School at Crockett, Texas, since Opinion No. WW-251 does not define these schools as Eleemosynary Institutions? and related questions.
Date: October 24, 1957
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Troops] (open access)

[News Script: Troops]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story.
Date: October 22, 1967
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Copperas Cove Leader-Press (Copperas Cove, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 104, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 2, 2012 (open access)

Copperas Cove Leader-Press (Copperas Cove, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 104, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Semi-weekly newspaper from Copperas Cove, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 2, 2012
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History