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[Letter from P. R. Clarke to C. C. Cox, April 18, 1922] (open access)

[Letter from P. R. Clarke to C. C. Cox, April 18, 1922]

Letter from P. R. Clarke to C. C. Cox discussing school vouchers and related business. The envelope is included.
Date: April 18, 1922
Creator: Clarke, P. R.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from A. C. Allen to C. C. Cox, November 18th, 1918] (open access)

[Letter from A. C. Allen to C. C. Cox, November 18th, 1918]

Letter from lawyer A. C. Allen to C. C. Cox discussing a lawsuit against a Mr. Corbett in Montgomery County, Texas. The envelope is included.
Date: November 18, 1918
Creator: Allen, A. C.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from T. F. Loughran to C. C. Cox, January 18, 1923] (open access)

[Letter from T. F. Loughran to C. C. Cox, January 18, 1923]

Letter from T. F. Loughran to C. C. Cox to ask how he is doing and ask for a restart in their correspondence. The letter is written on Singer Sewing Machines stationary. Included is the envelope, postmarked in Winona, MN for 5:30 PM on January 18, 1923.
Date: January 18, 1923
Creator: Loughran, T. F.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bills 2463, Chapter 1367 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bills 2463, Chapter 1367

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of a Medicaid health literacy pilot program and health care funding districts in certain counties and authorizing the districts to impose taxes on certain institutional health care providers located in the districts.
Date: June 18, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sawing-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Sawing-Machines.

Patent for a new and valuable sawing-machine is combined and, "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the vibrating beam, vertically-sliding block, and flanged support," (pg. 3) e.g...including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 18, 1873
Creator: Westmoreland, Joseph M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Baling Cotton. (open access)

Method of Baling Cotton.

Patent for a new and improved method of baling cotton. This design "is to gin, condense, and bale the cotton in one continuous operation and to so effectually reduce the size of the resulting bale of cotton in this first, original, initial process as to make it of suitable dimensions and density for market or transportation by rail or sea to final destination" (lines 13-19). It consists "in compressing the same in the form of a continuous sheet, lapping said sheet before it has time to expand in the form of a bale, and subsequently applying pressure to expel the air from between the layers" (lines 29-33).
Date: November 18, 1890
Creator: Rembert, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Egg Preserving Apparatus. (open access)

Egg Preserving Apparatus.

Patent for a new and useful egg container for packing, storing, and preserving eggs.
Date: February 18, 1902
Creator: Glacken Hugh
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History