The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 1886 (open access)

The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 1886

Weekly newspaper from Willis, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 29, 1886
Creator: Cravens, N. A., Jr.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. [2], No. [1], Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 1885 (open access)

The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. [2], No. [1], Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 1885

Weekly newspaper from Willis, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 16, 1885
Creator: Cravens, N. A., Jr.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. [4], No. [1], Ed. 1 Friday, January 7, 1887 (open access)

The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. [4], No. [1], Ed. 1 Friday, January 7, 1887

Weekly newspaper from Willis, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 7, 1887
Creator: Cravens, N. A., Jr.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Montgomery Journal. (Montgomery, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, January 7, 1881 (open access)

The Montgomery Journal. (Montgomery, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, January 7, 1881

Newspaper from Montgomery, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 7, 1881
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Buncher. (open access)

Cotton Buncher.

Patent for a new and improved cotton buncher. This design utilizes a wheel that "is to press down the plants and weeds that are to be destroyed, so that the plows, whether used along with the wheel or afterward, will cover them up with fresh earth, and thus assist in destroying them, and at the same time cultivating the plants to be retained and facilitating the subsequent thinning process" (lines 62-68).
Date: January 16, 1883
Creator: Goodin, James Louis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Boot and Shoe Box. (open access)

Revolving Boot and Shoe Box.

Patent for a new and improved revolving boot and shoe box. This design "consists in the employment of a revolving conoidal or tapering case having a series of compartments arranged one series above another throughout its entire height, and disposed within a surrounding case or inclosure provided with sliding doors" (lines 23-29).
Date: January 9, 1883
Creator: Irvine, William Fielding
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ox-Yoke. (open access)

Ox-Yoke.

Patent for a new ox yoke design to reduce wear of the yoke, including illustrations.
Date: January 3, 1888
Creator: Herren, William Willison
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History