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Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 49, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1882 (open access)

Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 49, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1882

Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: Rankin, John G. & Levin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker's Wagon. (open access)

Cotton Picker's Wagon.

Patent for a new and improved wagon for cotton pickers. This design "consists in a suitable frame-work supported on wheels and covered on top by canvas or other suitable material to protect the pickers from the rays of the sun or from the rain, and on one or both sides of the frame, preferably both, is a trough for receiving the picked cotton" (lines 10-16).
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: Collins, Charles P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 72, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1882 (open access)

The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 72, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1882

Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Evening Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1882 (open access)

The Evening Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1882

Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fertilizer. (open access)

Fertilizer.

Patent for improvements in fertilizers “for restoring to the soil the elements which form the food for plants, and which have been abstracted therefore by the absorption of successive crops, or which are naturally deficient in quantity or entirely wanting in the soil.” (Lines 12-16) Instructions on preparing the fertilizers and ingredients are included. No illustration.
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: Elsasser, Isaac
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Democrat-Advance. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 56, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1882 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Democrat-Advance. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 56, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1882

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 3713, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1882 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 3713, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1882

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 287, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1882 (open access)

The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 287, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1882

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Norton's Daily Union Intelligencer. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 246, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1882 (open access)

Norton's Daily Union Intelligencer. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 246, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1882

Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: Norton, A. B.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spark Arrester. (open access)

Spark Arrester.

Patent for a new and improved spark arrester for train smokestacks. This design is of "a locomotive-engine, a pipe or pipes for conveying sparks from the smoke-stack, in combination of a diaphragm or cone placed in the stack and a steam or water chamber placed around the discharge of said pipe or pipes" (lines 88-93).
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: Nichols, George B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Store Counter. (open access)

Store Counter.

Patent for a new and improved store counter. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the horizontal slideways in the lower portion of the counter extending from front to rear, the rectangular slide-frames working therein, and the angular boxes pivoted by their lower and middle portions to the slide-frames and reversible therein by a rocking movement" (lines 17-24).
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: Conrad, William Jenkens
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 299, Ed. 1, Tuesday, February 21, 1882 (open access)

The Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 299, Ed. 1, Tuesday, February 21, 1882

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Brake. (open access)

Wagon Brake.

Patent for a new and improved wagon brake. This design consists "[i]n the brake-beams pivoted in the clamp, in combination with the bent rods, castings, brake-blocks, and lever" (lines 87-89).
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: Zellers, Robert Emanuel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window Frame. (open access)

Window Frame.

Patent for a new and improved window frame. This design "has for its objects to provide an improved means for holding the sash of a window in any position to which it may be elevated, and at the same time permit the sash to be readily moved up or down" (lines 11-15).
Date: February 21, 1882
Creator: Sturm, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History