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Device for Removing Broken Screws, &c. (open access)

Device for Removing Broken Screws, &c.

Patent for a new and improved device for removing broken screws. This design "is to provide a . . . bit specially designed for extracting screws, taps, screw-bolts, &c., from iron, marble, or other hard substances in case one of the said articles is broken off in the material into which it is screwed. The invention consists of a bit provided with an internal spiral cutting-thread and external cutters" (lines 7-15).
Date: September 10, 1889
Creator: Cahn, Maurice
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Sun (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 1889 (open access)

The Sun (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Weatherford, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 30, 1889
Creator: Hoeny, John, Sr.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Sun (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 1889 (open access)

The Sun (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Weatherford, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 27, 1889
Creator: Hoeny, John, Sr.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Weatherford 1889 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Weatherford in Parker County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Weatherford 1889 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Weatherford in Parker County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Weatherford 1889 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Weatherford in Parker County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Weatherford 1889 Sheet 4

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Weatherford in Parker County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1889
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Parker County, state of Texas.

Map shows land ownership, land grants, towns, property boundaries, and watershed. Scale [ca. 1:133,334].
Date: 1889
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Parker County, state of Texas.

Map shows land ownership, land grants, towns, property boundaries, and watershed. Scale [ca. 1:133,334].
Date: 1889
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rein Holder. (open access)

Rein Holder.

Patent for a new and improved rein-holder. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a base-plate and spaced posts upon one face of the said plate grooved on their adjacent sides, of a spring-actuated lever provided with a cylindrical surface at one end and a flange projecting from the outer face beyond said surface, the opposite extremity of the lever being curved to form, essentially, a hook, the cylindrical surface being adapted for engagement with one post and the hook extremity with the other post" (lines 71-81).
Date: June 4, 1889
Creator: Turman, William F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trace Attachment. (open access)

Trace Attachment.

Patent for a new and improved trace attachment. This design "relates to an improvement in couplings for tug-straps, and has for its object to provide a simple, economical, and durable device, capable of convenient manipulation, and whereby the tug-strap may be expeditiously attached to the cockeye of the whiffletree or detached therefrom" (lines 8-14).
Date: November 26, 1889
Creator: Turman, William F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Parker County

Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1889
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Franco-Texan Land Co. (open access)

The Franco-Texan Land Co.

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of business name and text reading: "The Company Has a large amount of lands for sale or lease in Parker, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Shackelford, Callahan, Jones, Taylor, Nolan, Fisher and Mitchell counties"; "Lands Will be sold in Tracts to suit purchasers, and either for cash or long credit. The Company has no Local Agents. Apply direct to this office." Letterhead includes the names A. J. Hood, Pres.; J. Pit, Sec'y and Treas.
Date: 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Parker County

Cadastral map of Parker County, Texas in the Prairies and Lakes region. Some borders and features are shaded in color. Scale [ca. 1:66,667] (2000 varas per inch).
Date: 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History