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"Sunset, Montague Co. Texas, 1890"

Bird's eye view of Sunset, Texas, notes the public school, M.E. Church, commercial hotel, and railroad station
Date: 1890
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener. (open access)

Wire Tightener.

Patent for a new and improved wire tightener. This design "has for its object to provide a novel, simple, economical, and efficient implement or tool for tightening wire fences by forming twists or loops in the fence-strands to take up the slack, and to provide a novel implement of this type wherein a rod or bar can be conveniently applied to increase the leverage in turning the implement to form the twists or loops" (lines 8-16).
Date: July 15, 1890
Creator: Bellah, William N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History