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The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 13, 1891 (open access)

The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 13, 1891

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 13, 1891
Creator: Park, Milton
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hot Pan Lifter. (open access)

Hot Pan Lifter.

Patent for a new and improved potholder. This design is "to provide novel means whereby the various sizes of baking and other pans in the equipment of a kitchen can be conveniently and safely handled without danger of the pan being accidentally disengaged from the implement . . . to provide a novel hot-pan lifter which will in use have a positive toothed engagement with the rim of a hot-pan . . . to provide novel, simple, and efficient means whereby the lifter or implement can be promptly and conveniently released from . . .the pan . . . by the simple pressure of the thumb" (lines 18-31).
Date: January 13, 1891
Creator: Penfield, Matie B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History