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Improved Medical Compound.
Patent for improvements in medical compound.
Date:
January 7, 1868
Creator:
Taylor, Daniel W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for a new improvement in agricultural plows that will not clog when used with sticky prairie-soil, including illustration.
Date:
January 27, 1874
Creator:
Ford, Isaac M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Grub-Plow and Stalk-Cutter.
Patent for a device to remove grubs from soil, which consists of an adjustable gage-wheel and a cutter to remove grubs and to cut roots. The cutter can be also used to cut cotton-stalks. It includes illustrations.
Date:
January 14, 1879
Creator:
Talley, Reuben Jones
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Ring and Buckle.
Patent for a new and improved combined ring and buckle. This design is "to provide a device particularly for use in halters, whereby the manufacture of the latter may be accomplished without so much sewing or riveting of the parts together as is required where the ordinary halter-ring is used. [It] is capable of application to purposes other than harnesses" (lines 9-16).
Date:
January 4, 1887
Creator:
Kay, William V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine
Patent for improvements to typewriters "to provide means whereby a number of sheets of paper may be inserted at one time and removed successively after each page is written, there by obviating the necessity of removing the completed sheet and replacing it by a new one at the end of each page" (lines 14-20).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Pierce, Jesse W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Tug.
Patent for a simple thill-tug that can be easily connected and disconnected, and is strong and durable. It does not use spring latches, and the device attaches to the harness.
Date:
January 29, 1895
Creator:
Carton, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener.
Patent for "devices for tightening the tires on new wheels, as well as wheels that have been in use, and upon which the tires have become loosened, and the object of the invention is to provide a tightener which will be exceedingly simple, durable and economic, and wherein the tightener may be expeditiously and conveniently applied without altering the shape of the felly and at the same time maintain a true circular shape for the tire." (Lines 7-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 12, 1897
Creator:
Garrett, Robert N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press.
Patent for a new and improved hay press. This design consists, "with the frame, of the pivot-pin mounted in the end of the frame and having a crank disk on its lower end, the pitman pivoted to said disk, the spring secured to the pitman and the frame, the double-cam secured on the pivot-pin, the sweep loosely mounted on the pivot-pin above the said double cam, and the dogs pivoted within the sweep and bearing on the cam" (lines 59-67).
Date:
January 7, 1890
Creator:
Mayes, Thomas T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Belton Evening News. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 214, Ed. 1 Monday, January 5, 1903
Daily newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 5, 1903
Creator:
Savage, H. B.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Weekly Independent. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 16, 1858
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 16, 1858
Creator:
Marschalk, Andrew, Sr.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Weekly Independent. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 38, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 23, 1858
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 23, 1858
Creator:
Marschalk, Andrew, Sr.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Farmer (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 37, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 9, 1884
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising. The paper is the "official medium of communication for the Texas State Grange" (Vol. 2, No. 5).
Date:
January 9, 1884
Creator:
Fuller, J. F.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Belton Journal (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 5, 1882
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 5, 1882
Creator:
Batte, J. G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Belton Journal (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 12, 1882
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 12, 1882
Creator:
Batte, J. G.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Belton Journal (Belton, Tex.), Ed. 1 Saturday, January 15, 1898
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 15, 1898
Creator:
Robinson, George
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Bell County Democrat (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 30, 1908
Semi-weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 30, 1908
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Gertrude Osterhout to Paul Osterhout, January 6, 1886]
Letter from Gertrude Osterhout to Paul Osterhout. Gertrude wrote to inform Paul about wedding preparations their family was helping to make. She also wrote that their father sold the stocks to a business he was involved in and might start up a small one of his own.
Date:
January 6, 1886
Creator:
Osterhout, Gertrude
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Paul Osterhout to John Patterson Osterhout, January 23, 1988]
Letter from Paul Osterhout to John Patterson Osterhout. Paul wrote his father a short letter to provide an update on what had happened locally after his after his father had left. The letter touched upon some of Paul's communications, local church service attendance, and someone he saw recently.
Date:
January 23, 1888
Creator:
Osterhout, Paul
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard from Lillian Graves to Ora and Junia Roberts Osterhout, January 9, 1911]
Postcard from Lillian Graves to Ora and Junia Roberts Osterhout discussing Lillian's recent trip home. She apologizes for not being able to see them while she was there, but her mother was sick. There is a picture of the San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio, Texas on the front, and the description printed on the back says "This is the original Parish Church and the oldest of all these Spanish Mission churches which was erected by public subscription in 1732, and it was on the roof of this building that Santa Anna mounted his cannon in besieging the Alamo in 1836. The postcard is addressed to Misses Ora and Junia Osterhout in Belton, Texas, and it is postmarked San Antonio, January 9, 1911.
Date:
January 9, 1911
Creator:
Graves, Lillian
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Elvira Spurgin to Bettie Wade, January 28, 1868]
Letter from Elvira Spurgin to Bettie Wade discussing recent news of family and friends. She mentions that the weather has been very cold in Belton, and she has some new boarders. Someone named Loraine had typhoid fever.
Date:
January 28, 1868
Creator:
Spurgin, Elvira
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1953
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas, published for the military and civilian personnel of Fort Hood, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 8, 1953
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 15, 1953
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas, published for the military and civilian personnel of Fort Hood, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 15, 1953
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 29, 1953
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas, published for the military and civilian personnel of Fort Hood, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 29, 1953
Creator:
Lacy, Joe M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, January 6, 1961
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas, published for the military and civilian personnel of Fort Hood, that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 6, 1961
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History