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Check-Punch. (open access)

Check-Punch.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and compact check-punch that can be operated by one hand and doesn't take much power to operate. The machine consists of two movable members, "one of which carries all of the male and the other all of the female dies, said members being so related that when moved relatively to each other in one direction all the male dies move as a single member...and enter the female dies, and when moved in the opposite direction all of said male dies are withdrawn" (lines 12-20).
Date: March 17, 1896
Creator: Woodworth, Charles H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chicago Eagle. (Chicago, Ill.), Vol. 6, No. 154, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 17, 1892 (open access)

Chicago Eagle. (Chicago, Ill.), Vol. 6, No. 154, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 17, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Chicago, Illinois that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 17, 1892
Creator: Donovan, Henry F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History