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Baling-Press
Patent for an improved baling press for hay, cotton, and similar materials granted to Charles M. Stone.
Date:
March 10, 1885
Creator:
Stone, Charles M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 1, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 12, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 12, 1885
Creator:
Cox & Lewis
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 2, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 19, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 19, 1885
Creator:
Cox & Lewis
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 26, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 26, 1885
Creator:
Cox & Lewis
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John Jeremiah Osterhout to Paul Osterhout, November 22, 1885]
Letter from John Jeremiah Osterhout to his brother, Paul Osterhout, updating him on events at home. John regretted not writing sooner and mentioned an expensive wedding that was being planned in Belton, Texas. He told Paul that he was well and that some of their mutual acquaintances had arrived in town.
Date:
November 22, 1885
Creator:
Osterhout, John Jeremiah
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Taylor Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1885
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Belton 1885 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Belton in Bell County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1885
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Temple 1885 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Temple in Bell County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1885
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Belton 1885 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Belton in Bell County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1885
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Packing Cotton.
Patent for an improvement in devices for packing and compressing cotton in press-boxes. This patent is an improvement on the inventor's previous Letters Patent of the United States granted June 26, 1883, No. 280,333.
Date:
December 15, 1885
Creator:
Summer, Dewitt C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door Check.
Patent for a new and improved door check. This design "consists in a disk pivoted on a plate and provided with a notch for receiving the corner of the door, and with a series of teeth with which a pawl engages for locking the disk in place after it has been adjusted" (lines 11-15).
Date:
April 14, 1885
Creator:
Callaway, James William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ribbon and Braid Holder.
Patent for a new and improved ribbon and braid holder. This design "consist[s] of [a] V-shaped wire having the cross-piece and the pin, having eyes at its ends, through which eyes the shanks of the V-shaped wire pass freely . . . [and] [t]he combination, with the roll, having the central aperture" (lines 55-61).
Date:
July 14, 1885
Creator:
Stone, Charles M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History