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[Letter from H. G. Duugan to C. C. Cox, February 10, 1896] (open access)

[Letter from H. G. Duugan to C. C. Cox, February 10, 1896]

Letter from real estate agent H. G. Duugan to C. C. Cox discussing property in Sioux City, Iowa, and advising him not to purchase any at that time.
Date: February 10, 1896
Creator: Duugan, H. G.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard from A. H. Traylor to C. C. Cox, March 10, 1922]

Letter from A. H. Traylor to C. C. Cox telling him his taxes owed for 1896.
Date: March 10, 1897
Creator: Traylor, A. H.
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Compressing and Baling Cotton Batting. (open access)

Method of Compressing and Baling Cotton Batting.

Patent for a new and improved method of baling cotton. This design "consist[s] in, first, folding the cotton in successive layers and slightly compressing the same at their folds; second, severing the web at intervals into sections; third, subjecting the sections successively and independently to compression; fourth, piling the sections; fifth, subjecting the mass thus formed to final compression, and sixth, binding or baling the same while under such compression" (lines 90-100).
Date: June 10, 1890
Creator: Rembert, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for a car coupling that improves their construction by "providing a link which may be readily directed to the draw-head of a car to be coupled without necessitating going between cars" (lines 12-14).
Date: January 10, 1893
Creator: McDade, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History