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Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 126, Ed. 1 Monday, February 1, 1886 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 126, Ed. 1 Monday, February 1, 1886

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 1, 1886
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 187, Ed. 1, Monday, February 1, 1886 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 187, Ed. 1, Monday, February 1, 1886

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 1, 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 1128, Ed. 1 Monday, February 1, 1886 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 1128, Ed. 1 Monday, February 1, 1886

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 1, 1886
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 283, Ed. 1 Monday, February 1, 1886 (open access)

The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 283, Ed. 1 Monday, February 1, 1886

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 1, 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hill County

Map of Hill County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: February 1886
Creator: Craig, A. M.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Our Brother in Red. (Muskogee, Indian Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 6, Ed. 1 Monday, February 1, 1886 (open access)

Our Brother in Red. (Muskogee, Indian Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 6, Ed. 1 Monday, February 1, 1886

Monthly newspaper from Muskogee, Indian Territory "devoted to the Promotion of the Cause of Education, Temperance, And Religion, in the Indian Territory." (Vol. I, Number 3) Included are social and religious news items, editorials, and literature along with advertising.
Date: February 1, 1886
Creator: Brewer, Theodore F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Philomathean (Chappell Hill, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Monday, February 1, 1886 (open access)

The Philomathean (Chappell Hill, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Monday, February 1, 1886

Monthly newspaper from Chappell Hill, Texas that includes local news and commentary related to the Chappell Hill Female College.
Date: February 1, 1886
Creator: Felder, Kate & Tarrant, Mamie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Property tax receipt for Lizzie Williams] (open access)

[Property tax receipt for Lizzie Williams]

Receipt for payment of fifty dollars towards Lizzie Williams' (Lizzie Johnson) property tax for 1886.
Date: February 1, 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Daily Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 11, Ed. 1, Monday, February 1, 1886 (open access)

San Antonio Daily Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 11, Ed. 1, Monday, February 1, 1886

Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 1, 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Tommie Walker

Photograph of Tommie Walker, a Wyandotte. Photo by Parsons, St. Louis, MO, February 1886.
Date: February 1886
Creator: Parsons
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 27, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 2, 1886 (open access)

Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 27, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 2, 1886

Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Rankin, John G. & Levin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith. (open access)

Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith.

Patent for "a new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith"(lines 4-6)" to insure cleanliness in around privy-vaults and to prevent accumulations therein, especially in localities where water is not easily available"(lines 9-12), instructions and illustrations included.
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Scraper. (open access)

Cotton Scraper.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-scraper. This design "is to produce a cotton-scraper of economical construction that will cut a wider furrow with lighter draft, do the work more perfectly, and at the same time be more easily held to the row than the scrapers in the present general use" (lines 11-16).
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Cooper, Richard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 127, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 2, 1886 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 127, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 2, 1886

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 188, Ed. 1, Tuesday, February 2, 1886 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 188, Ed. 1, Tuesday, February 2, 1886

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 1129, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 2, 1886 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 1129, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 2, 1886

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Funnel for Forcing Molasses, &c. (open access)

Funnel for Forcing Molasses, &c.

Patent for a new and improved funnel. This design "relates to improvements in funnels for transferring molasses and other thick liquid and substances from one receptacle into bottles, jars, and other vessels; and the objects of [the] improvements are to provide a funnel with means for securing it to a table, counter, &c.; to provide said funnel with means for forcing a liquid therethrough and the forcing apparatus with a detachable spout thereunder" (lines 10-19).
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Henke, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 284, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 2, 1886 (open access)

The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 284, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 2, 1886

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail Bag or Pouch (open access)

Mail Bag or Pouch

Patent for an improvement of the device known as a mail-pouch, along with detailed illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Campbell, Parker
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plow-beam, of two side-bars, the rear portion of each of which is folded back upon itself, forming a standard, a shorter standard, a handle the front end of which and the end of the double portion are secured to the said bar by means of a single bolt, and the downturned end of one-half of the adjusting device and a brace for said handle being secured by a single bolt at another place" (lines 8-17).
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Putman, John Howard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Power Stand. (open access)

Power Stand.

Patent for a new and improved power-stand. In this design, "a single pulley is mounted upon a stand, the shaft of said pulley bearing at each end, outside of the stand, one part of a friction or other clutch, which may be engaged with or disengaged from the corresponding part of a clutch attached to the shaft of a machine" (lines 13-19).
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Hetherington, Johnathan S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Daily Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 12, Ed. 1, Tuesday, February 2, 1886 (open access)

San Antonio Daily Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 12, Ed. 1, Tuesday, February 2, 1886

Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash Holder. (open access)

Sash Holder.

Patent for a new and improved sash holder. This design "relates to improvements in window-stops, the object of which is to provide a cheap, convenient, and durable device for supporting windows, which may be set in the sash, so as not to mar its looks" (lines 12-16).
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Whitlock, James Howard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter. (open access)

Seed Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "consists in the detailed construction . . . by which the operator is enabled to see each seed in its passage from the planting-wheel to the ground, and so can guard against the disadvantage of some of the rows being only half planted, from the seed-spout getting stopped up, or from the planter-wheel failing to act properly, and in other improvements" (lines 13-21).
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Lovick, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History