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Bottle (open access)

Bottle

Patent for a new and useful improvements in bottles. This invention is to "provide an improved vessel of this class the neck of which is formed in such manner and provided with attachments so constructed that when the vessel has been filled and the attachment applied the vessel may be emptied of its contents, but cannot be refilled or reused" (line 12- 18).
Date: December 14, 1897
Creator: Saunders, David Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Machine (open access)

Acetylene Gas Machine

Patent for a new and useful improvement in gas-machines.
Date: December 14, 1897
Creator: Bryant, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder (open access)

Clothes Pounder

Patent for a new and useful improvements in Clothes-Pounders. The invention "has its object to provide a simple and effective clothes pounder in which the air as well as the water is used as an agent in removing the dirt from the clothes" (line 12- 16).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Allen, William Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle - Nut. (open access)

Axle - Nut.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in Axle-Nuts for wagons and carriages.
Date: November 23, 1897
Creator: Collins, Corties
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie (open access)

Bale Tie

Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This invention is to "provide a new and improved bale-tie which is simple and durable in construction, not liable to become accidentally unlocked, and arranged to permit its use on ordinary compresses" (line 7 - 11).
Date: December 14, 1897
Creator: Edmonston, Thomax Cole
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baking, Cooking, and Heating Furnace (open access)

Baking, Cooking, and Heating Furnace

Patent for a new and useful improvement in baking, cooking, and heating furnaces. This invention "consists in the mechanism and peculiar arrangements of parts, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings and particularly pointed out in the claims" (line 13-16).
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Harry, Owen K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Dumping Cage (open access)

Automatic Dumping Cage

Patent for a new and improved automatic dumping cage. This invention is to "use in the shafts of coal and other mines"(line 9-10).
Date: November 30, 1897
Creator: Gordon, William K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Package - Carrying Bicycle. (open access)

Convertible Package - Carrying Bicycle.

Patent for a convertible package carrying bicycle.
Date: November 2, 1897
Creator: Sanders, Ira B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bolt Lock for Railways (open access)

Bolt Lock for Railways

Patent for a new and useful improvements in bolt locks for railways. This invention is to "provide a simple, durable, and effective device of this class" (line 13-14).
Date: December 21, 1897
Creator: Herrin, Lemuel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Planter. (open access)

Corn-Planter.

Patent relating to "a novel corn-planter, and has for its object the production of a simple, durable, and efficient planting attachment which may be applied to an ordinary plow and which when so applied will automatically effect the distribution of corn or other grain at desired intervals" (lines 12-18).
Date: December 21, 1897
Creator: Ellis, William Wesley
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin Controlled Tire Inflater (open access)

Coin Controlled Tire Inflater

Patent for a new and useful improvements in coin controlled tire inflaters. This invention is to "provide an apparatus to be operated through the introduction of a coin of predetermined value of inflating pneumatic tires to any pressure desired automatically" (line 15 - 19).
Date: December 14, 1897
Creator: Ligon, John Barrows
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Biblical Game Apparatus (open access)

Biblical Game Apparatus

Patent for a new and useful game apparatus. This design is to "provide a biblical game apparatus adapted to be employed in play by two or more persons" (line 8-10).
Date: December 14, 1897
Creator: James, Will S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products (open access)

Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products

Patent for a new and improved apparatus for desulfuring matte or other furnace products.
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Wells, James L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder (open access)

Clothes Pounder

Patent for a new and useful improvements in clothes pounders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Schofield, Frank B. & Schofield, Joseph L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Woman's Wednesday Club Minutes, 1897-1898] (open access)

[Woman's Wednesday Club Minutes, 1897-1898]

Minutes from weekly meetings of the Woman's Wednesday Club of Fort Worth, Texas, containing club business, motions, and events. Includes a club calendar.
Date: 1897-02-03/1898-02-02
Creator: Woman's Wednesday Club
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check - Book (open access)

Check - Book

Patent for a new and useful improvements in check-book for " customer's use, such as are employed by banks for free distribution" (line 11 - 13).
Date: November 2, 1897
Creator: Exline, Marcus P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 245, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 13, 1897 (open access)

The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 245, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 13, 1897

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 13, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 111, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 12, 1897 (open access)

The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 111, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 12, 1897

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 12, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 114, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 15, 1897 (open access)

The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 114, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 15, 1897

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 15, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1897 (open access)

The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1897

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 22, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 188, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 7, 1897 (open access)

The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 188, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 7, 1897

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 7, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 108, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 8, 1897 (open access)

The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 108, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 8, 1897

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 8, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 1897 (open access)

The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 1897

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 29, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 219, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 12, 1897 (open access)

The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 219, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 12, 1897

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 12, 1897
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History