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Combination-Wrench. (open access)

Combination-Wrench.

Patent for a combination wrench that combines a sliding-jaw wrench with a tallow box, hammer, nail claw, horseshoe-pick, plow-paddle, and screwdriver.
Date: December 1, 1885
Creator: McKenzie, Winfield S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 1, 1889 (open access)

Forney Tribune. (Forney, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 1, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Forney, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 1, 1889
Creator: Elliott, Sercey & Adams, Walter D.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Smoke and Cinder Conductor. (open access)

Smoke and Cinder Conductor.

Patent for a new and improved smoke and cinder conductor. This design "has for its object to provide a simple and efficient conducting mechanism to be attached to the cars, and provided with an improved coupling device at its ends, by which a coupling can be automatically effected with the conducting mechanism of an adjoining car" (lines 11-17).
Date: May 1, 1883
Creator: Brown, William A. & Smith, James F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History