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Gate-Latch. (open access)

Gate-Latch.

Patent for a new and useful gate latch, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 16, 1899
Creator: Perkins, Oscar P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a new improvement in cattle guards, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 4, 1899
Creator: Arnold, Eliphalet Lester
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 8, 1893 (open access)

The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 8, 1893

Weekly newspaper from Willis, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 8, 1893
Creator: Cravens, N. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, November 18, 1898 (open access)

The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, November 18, 1898

Weekly newspaper from Willis, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 18, 1898
Creator: Cravens, N. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, December 23, 1892 (open access)

The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, December 23, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Willis, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 23, 1892
Creator: Cravens, N. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, November 16, 1894 (open access)

The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, November 16, 1894

Weekly newspaper from Willis, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 16, 1894
Creator: Cravens, N. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. [], Ed. 1 Friday, November 6, 1896 (open access)

The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. [], Ed. 1 Friday, November 6, 1896

Weekly newspaper from Willis, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 6, 1896
Creator: Cravens, N. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, July 13, 1894 (open access)

The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, July 13, 1894

Weekly newspaper from Willis, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 13, 1894
Creator: Cravens, N. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, October 20, 1893 (open access)

The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, October 20, 1893

Weekly newspaper from Willis, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 20, 1893
Creator: Cravens, N. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 1898 (open access)

The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 1898

Weekly newspaper from Willis, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 20, 1898
Creator: Cravens, N. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner. (open access)

Cotton-Cleaner.

Patent for a cotton cleaner that provides "certain improvements in machines for cleaning lint cotton, and especially to provide a machine of this character which is intended to be arranged in the common lint flue, so as to occupy a position between the ordinary condenser in the lint room, and the nearest gin thereto" (lines 9-16). The cotton is thoroughly cleaned after leaving the gin, so that motes, stems, sticks, dry leaves, sand, &c. will be separated from the cotton.
Date: October 3, 1893
Creator: Rembert, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flood-Gate. (open access)

Flood-Gate.

Patent for a flood-gate meant for use in mill-dams, races, and levees. Its intended use is to allow water to come to a certain height, and automatically release water once it gets past that point. When the water returns to a reasonable height, the gate automatically closes.
Date: December 26, 1893
Creator: Dean, Asa
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
Apparatus for Baling Cotton. (open access)

Apparatus for Baling Cotton.

Patent for a cotton baling machine in which, it would provide a mechanism for baling the fiber in packages, for the ease of transporting and handling; and to prevent the loss of cotton or fiber in transporting from the gin to the baling-press. Illustration is included.
Date: February 24, 1891
Creator: Rembert, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner. (open access)

Cotton-Cleaner.

Patent for a cotton-cleaner that has the flue leading from the gin to the condenser. It is an improvement previously granted to the inventor (No. 506,134), where "dust-laden air will be effectually prevented from passing through the cleaning drum of the cleaner and mingling again with the cleaned cotton which is fed to the condenser" (lines 16-20).
Date: December 4, 1894
Creator: Rembert, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas, the Lone Star State (open access)

Texas, the Lone Star State

Real estate brochure for sale of lands in Montgomery County.
Date: 1893
Creator: Daugherty, J.S.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conroe Enterprise. (Conroe, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, January 20, 1893 (open access)

Conroe Enterprise. (Conroe, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, January 20, 1893

Weekly newspaper from Conroe, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 20, 1893
Creator: Mayfield, Fred F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Conroe Courier. (Conroe, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. [], Ed. 1 Friday, November 15, 1895 (open access)

The Conroe Courier. (Conroe, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. [], Ed. 1 Friday, November 15, 1895

Weekly newspaper from Conroe, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 15, 1895
Creator: Jones, H. P.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conroe Courier. (Conroe, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, December 9, 1898 (open access)

Conroe Courier. (Conroe, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, December 9, 1898

Weekly newspaper from Conroe, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 9, 1898
Creator: Frazer, Lee H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Photostat Copy of Receipt for Taxes Paid by H. M. Trueheart & Company, 1890] (open access)

[Photostat Copy of Receipt for Taxes Paid by H. M. Trueheart & Company, 1890]

Photostat copy of a receipt for taxes paid on a property in San Jacinto and Montgomery Counties by H. M. Trueheart & Company on behalf of S. J. McAlpine for the year 1890.
Date: November 7, 1890
Creator: Darden, S. H. & Walsh, D. H.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt for Taxes Paid by H. M. Trueheart & Company, 1899] (open access)

[Receipt for Taxes Paid by H. M. Trueheart & Company, 1899]

Receipt for taxes paid on property in Montgomery and San Jacinto Counties by H. M. Trueheart & Company on behalf of the estate of Sarah J. McAlpine.
Date: November 15, 1899
Creator: Walsh, D. H. & Finley, R. W.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt for Montgomery County Taxes, 1893] (open access)

[Receipt for Montgomery County Taxes, 1893]

Receipt for property taxes paid by H. M. Trueheart & Company to Montgomery County for property owned by S. J. McAlpine for the year 1893.
Date: November 2, 1893
Creator: Office of Collector of Taxes
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Photostat Copy of Receipt for Taxes Paid by H. M. Trueheart & Company, 1891] (open access)

[Photostat Copy of Receipt for Taxes Paid by H. M. Trueheart & Company, 1891]

Photostat copy of a receipt for taxes paid on a property in San Jacinto and Montgomery Counties by H. M. Trueheart & Company on behalf of S. J. McAlpine for the year 1891.
Date: November 23, 1891
Creator: Darden, S. H. & Walsh, D. H.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt for Taxes Paid by H. M. Trueheart & Company, 1895] (open access)

[Receipt for Taxes Paid by H. M. Trueheart & Company, 1895]

Receipt for taxes paid by H. M. Trueheart & Company on behalf of S. J. McAlpine for property in Montgomery and San Jacinto Counties for the year 1895.
Date: December 31, 1895
Creator: Walsh, D. H. & Finley, R. W.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History