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Valley Mills Tribune (Valley Mills, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, July 26, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Valley Mills, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 26, 1918
Creator:
Carter, William H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valley Mills Tribune (Valley Mills, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, September 11, 1914
Weekly newspaper from Valley Mills, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 11, 1914
Creator:
Carter, William H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valley Mills Tribune (Valley Mills, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, May 30, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Valley Mills, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 30, 1913
Creator:
Carter, William H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Motel for Boats at Lake Whitney]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a new boat motel, owned by Fred Waggoner, at Lake Whitney. The motel features twenty stalls to accommodate boats up to 18-and-a-half feet long.
Date:
February 8, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Miss Navy]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a military-sponsored "Miss Navy" beauty contest in Lake Whitney.
Date:
June 12, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Park]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
September 5, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Meridian]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
September 20, 1969, 6:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 60, July 1956 - April, 1957
The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 587.
Date:
1957
Creator:
Texas State Historical Association
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 58, July 1954 - April, 1955
The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 587.
Date:
1955
Creator:
Texas State Historical Association
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Bottom Spring.
Patent for new and improved bed springs. Due to this design's construction, "in addition to the support furnished by the top spirals, the platform furnishes a broad level bearing for the mattress and prevents sagging between the springs or injury to the mattress itself. Also, the parallels, being springs in themselves, additional comfort and elasticity are added to the bed, and the springs themselves are more readily adapted to the varying width of the slats of different beds" (lines 25-34).
Date:
January 17, 1882
Creator:
Jarrett, Joshua V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool.
Patent for a combination tool "specifically adapted for use as a pan or plate lifter or a stove-lid lifter and which may also be used for holding dishes while being washed" (lines 4-7), including illustrations.
Date:
May 18, 1897
Creator:
Swenson, Charles E. & Swenson, Olive C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door.
Patent for "sliding doors for freight cars, stock cars, &c., in which the car door is suspended at its upper end by means of suitable hangers engaging a track or guide rail extended above and to one side of the door-way in such manner that the door, when unfastened, may be made to slide sidewise to give access to the interior of the car." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 12, 1894
Creator:
Mooney, Patrick T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder.
Patent for an improved clothes washer that is made up of a cylinder, a piston that is two disks attached together with notches and flared edges, and a packing strip in the groove of the disk edges.
Date:
August 14, 1894
Creator:
Lewis, Nathan D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Condenser and Dripper for Coffee or Tea Pots.
Patent for "a combined condenser and dripper for coffee or tea pots, the main object of the invention being the provision of a combined condenser and dripper to be attached to and used in connection with an ordinary coffee or tea pot; second, to construct a condenser readily connected to or disconnected from the lid of coffee or tea pot, and to have the reservoir or body of the condenser a proper distance above the pot to prevent its receiving external heat from the pot; and thereby, to produce such condenser and dripper at a minimum cost; and perfect in its operation" (lines 25-38).
Date:
February 20, 1894
Creator:
McClellan, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "the combination, with the axle, of the U-frame having bearings at its ends for the axle and a rearwardly-disposed sleeve, a shaft mounted in the sleeve and projecting beyond the same at each of its ends and provided with choppers at its rear end and a gear at its front end, a master-gear splined upon the axle and having a grooved hub, and a pivoted yoke terminating in the hub and a lever for operating the same to throw the gear into contact with that upon the shaft" (lines 1-12).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Stanford, Jeff Hillon
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design "ha[s] a curved bottom and rounded ends and consisting of the bottom, the sides, the partitions . . . similar to the sides and arranged adjacent to the latter" (lines 101-104). Said partitions "[form] water compartments, the transverse partition providing a communication between the water compartments and being formed by a plate bent longitudinally at an angle and having its apex extending across the body of the churn, and the dasher arranged above the partition and suitably secured in place" (lines 1-8).
Date:
August 26, 1890
Creator:
Day, William Howel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Washer.
Patent for a new and improved clothes washer "in which air is driven by the action of a piston through the clothing and the water surrounding it"(lines 9-11), includes instruction and illustration
Date:
September 22, 1885
Creator:
Gardner, James D. & Brumbelow, James N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Shears.
Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design is "to secure an equal wear of the teeth of the stationary and the revolving cutter-plates . . . whereby the instrument may be run double the usual time before it is necessary to grind the plates, and enabling the tool to be used as a right or a left hand cutter; also, to render the cutters separable without arresting the motion of the rotary blade . . . also, to provide means whereby the rotation of the cutter may be reversed . . . finally, to provide a simple device for throwing the miter-gears into and out of mesh" (lines 15-29).
Date:
December 9, 1884
Creator:
Carter, Francis W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridle.
Patent for a new and improved bridle. This design "consists in a novel manner of constructing driving-bridles, whereby a leverage upon the bit and curb proportionate to the needs of any particular occasion may be drawn up so that it will be impossible to hold the bit out of control of the driver" (lines 7-14).
Date:
August 19, 1884
Creator:
Roeber, Alexander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the chopper-handle, of the notched-roller, the mortised cross-beam, having the pivot across its mortise or hole, and the spring, attached to an upright, and the handle, whereby the chopper may be operated" (lines 73-78).
Date:
May 15, 1883
Creator:
Pettitt, Francis Alexander.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Kimball Herald (Kimball, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 20, 1860
Quarterly newspaper from Kimball, Texas (now a ghost town) that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 20, 1860
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Banker's Daily-Balance Index.
Patent for a banker's daily-balance index meant to "promote the speed and accuracy of book-keepers in keeping the personal daily balance ledger in banking and other like business" (lines 9-12). The patent is for a piece of paper divided with ink into strips on the front and back.
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
Thomas, Thomas Parry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Halter and Weaning-Muzzle.
Patent for a combined halter and weaning muzzle, "the halter being adapted for use independently of the muzzle and the latter being detachably connected to the halter" (lines 17-19). The halter is "the combination of a chin-strap and nose-band made in one piece and a weaning nose-band" (lines 18-20).
Date:
July 7, 1896
Creator:
Schow, Ottinus E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bosque County, State of Texas.
Map shows tracts of land with landowners names and patents; towns and portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale [1:66,667].
Date:
1890
Creator:
Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History