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The Mineola Courier. (Mineola, Tex.), Ed. 1 Thursday, October 11, 1894 (open access)

The Mineola Courier. (Mineola, Tex.), Ed. 1 Thursday, October 11, 1894

Weekly newspaper from Mineola, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 11, 1894
Creator: Pyle, O. P.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mineola 1896 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mineola in Wood County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Winnsboro 1899 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Winnsboro in Wood County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1899
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mineola 1891 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mineola in Wood County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Winnsboro 1899 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Winnsboro in Wood County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1899
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mineola 1896 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mineola in Wood County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mineola 1896 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mineola in Wood County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1896
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mineola 1891 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mineola in Wood County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Winnsboro 1899 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Winnsboro in Wood County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1899
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mineola 1891 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Mineola in Wood County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1891
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Couch and Bath-Tub. (open access)

Combined Couch and Bath-Tub.

Patent for a new and useful combined couch and bath tub, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Smith, Samuel Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Latch. (open access)

Latch.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in latches, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 18, 1899
Creator: Lott, William E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Latch. (open access)

Latch.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in latches, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 29, 1898
Creator: Lott, William Edward
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non Refillable Bottle (open access)

Non Refillable Bottle

Patent for a new and useful improvements in non-refillable bottles. This invention is to " provide a bottle of this character which can not be refilled and sold as an original package without detection" (line 11-15).
Date: November 30, 1897
Creator: Taylor, James Moss
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Conveyer. (open access)

Cotton-Seed Conveyer.

Patent for a new and useful cotton seed conveyer, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1899
Creator: Moore, John T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin-Saw Cleaner. (open access)

Cotton-Gin-Saw Cleaner.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton gin saw cleaners, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 12, 1899
Creator: Mapes, Joseph Calvin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alliance Courier (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1892 (open access)

Alliance Courier (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1892

Weekly newspaper from Mineola, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 6, 1892
Creator: Perdue, J. M.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1895 (open access)

The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1895

Weekly newspaper from Mineola, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 25, 1895
Creator: Sewell, Frank M.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wood 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: 1895
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed-Slat Fastener. (open access)

Bed-Slat Fastener.

Patent for an improved construction of a bed-slat fastener, one "adapted to support a bed-slat firmly in position and to prevent the side rails of a bedstead from springing outward" (lines 14-16). There are also "no recesses or crevices for the accumulation of vermin" (lines 19-20) in this design.
Date: January 26, 1897
Creator: Fielding, Charles S. & Grogan, John R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Andiron. (open access)

Andiron.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive andiron that can easily be moved and holds the logs in place. "The invention consists of an andiron having two dogs or members connected together and a fender removably connected to the front of said dogs and extending over the intervening space or opening" (lines 9-14).
Date: August 28, 1894
Creator: Grogan, John Richard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Walking Seed-Planter. (open access)

Walking Seed-Planter.

Patent for a walking seed-planter. It has a frame, a supporting-wheel between two beams of the frame, a seed-slide with forwardly-projecting arms and blocks that are engaged by cams, a hopper that overlies the seed-slide, springs attached to the hopper and the seed-slide that return the slide to its usual position, a pin that limits the seed-slide's movement, shovels on the frame, a seed-spout, a bolt that holds the frame together, and brace-rods.
Date: February 4, 1896
Creator: White, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock. (open access)

Nut-Lock.

Patent for improvements in nut-locks, "wherein a ratchet and pawl is employed to prevent retrograde movement of the nut after it has once been turned up into the desired position." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 23, 1891
Creator: Magee, William L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock. (open access)

Nut-Lock.

Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive nut lock that can be easily used and removed. It lengthens the life of the bolt. The invention is "a bolt with a longitudinal groove or slot in which fits a tongue or lug on a washer which is provided with a notch or notches into which may be forced a portion or portions of a washer made of bendable material, opposite portions of which are designed to be forced into notches in the faces of the nut and thus the nut and both washers are bound or held firmly together" (lines 14-23).
Date: June 6, 1893
Creator: Woods, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History