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[Killeen Livestock Show, 1974]
Barbara Fredrick and Doc Curb at the Killeen Livestock show, March 1974. A man awards a trophy to a young woman. Livestock resale prices are: Cattle, .4250/lb.; Swine, .30/lb; Lambs, .27/lb.
Date:
March 1974
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "consists in the combination, with the follower, the right-and-left-screw, and nuts, of the hinged levers and the bars swiveled thereto; also, in the combination . . . of the slotted bars, the hinged socket, and the swiveled arms; also, in the combination, with the nuts having shoulders and the hinged levers having forked up ends, of the anti-friction rollers journaled in recesses in the said nuts; also . . . of the curved and flattened swiveled arms, whereby the lower ends of the said follower-bars can have a lateral movement" (lines 23-38).
Date:
March 21, 1882
Creator:
Jones, Isaac Van Zandt
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beehive.
Patent for a beehive that is meant "to provide for the ready or convenient "robbing" of the hive without subjecting the bees to injury , as experienced in the old way, by smoking the bees out of the hive" (lines 16-20).
Date:
March 21, 1893
Creator:
Hawkins, Jackson D. & Ray, Francis M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design is "to place two baling-chambers at a suitable angle to each other and to connect both of the followers to the same sweep; to attach each of the filling-doors of the baling-chambers to the sweep, so that when one door closes from its own weight the other will be opened by the movement of the sweep, and to provide each of the filling doors with an automatically-acting bolt mechanism, whereby the movement of the follower bolts the door, so that it cannot be opened upward by the pressure of hay that is being pressed" (lines 15-26).
Date:
March 4, 1890
Creator:
Spencer, Anderson Hood
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Wood-Working Machine.
Patent for improvements in wood-working machine by using a combination of a toothed bar, a retractable slotted bar, a weight attached to the frame and a revolving wheel. With each single revolution of the drive-wheel, the slotted "bar is fed forward the distance of one tooth, and thus the cutter is gradually embedded in the material being operated upon at the same time it is rotated at a high rate of speed," (lines 94-97) illustration is included.
Date:
March 17, 1891
Creator:
Walton, George Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Velocipede.
Patent for a device related to "velocipedes or wagons propelled by hand-power" (lines 20-21), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1880
Creator:
Overstreet, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wash Board.
Patent for a new and improved washboard. This design consists in "a suitable base-frame, a series of alternately right and left handed spirally-grooved rollers journaled therein, an inclined forked frame straddling and pivoted to the base-frame, a lever for securing the adjustment of said forked frame on its axis, a rubber, and rocking spring-arms journaled in said forked frame and connecting the same and the rubber" (lines 92-100).
Date:
March 22, 1887
Creator:
Stone, Charles M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manufacture of Oil Cake.
Patent for a new and improved process for manufacturing oil-cake. This design "involves but a very slight change in the process ordinarily practiced in the manufacture of oil-cake by compressing it to remove the oil and form the residue into a compact shapely mass; and it consists in providing a paper envelope in which to press the seed, instead of the cloth envelope or bag commonly provided for the purpose, whereby [the design] obtain[s] greatly improved results in the manufacture, and a new article of manufacture possessing improved qualities" (lines 9-18).
Date:
March 23, 1886
Creator:
Kay, William V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Surgical Instrument.
Patent for "a tractor device...especially adapted for use in vesico-vaginal fistula operations, but which may advantageously be employed in operating upon other fistulas." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 12, 1895
Creator:
Hawkes, James Patrick
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Hook.
Patent for a simple and durable latch hame-hook that holds trace links in place. It is two plates, one of which is slotted to hold the tongue of the other plate.
Date:
March 6, 1894
Creator:
Dankworth, William J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter.
Patent for a walking seed-planter that has a wheel which is hooked up to a mechanism that lets seed out when the wheel is turned. The wheel is turned when the machine is walked. The mechanism that lets seed out is a rotary seed-plate and a series of gears, bolts, and belts.
Date:
March 17, 1896
Creator:
McKee, Francis A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Packer.
Patent for a new and improved cotton packer. This design consists in "the combination of a reciprocating plunger having an upright frame formed with a cross-piece at its top, a drum having means for revolving it in opposite directions, a chain attached to the plunger and to the drum winding upon the same, a spring secured at its middle to the cross-piece of the plunger-frame, and chains secured to the ends of the spring and to the drum winding upon the same in opposite direction to the chain from the plunger" (lines 93-103).
Date:
March 1, 1887
Creator:
Dulaney, John Thornton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Weekly Independent. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 45, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 13, 1858
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 13, 1858
Creator:
Marschalk, Andrew, Sr.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Weekly Independent. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 46, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 20, 1858
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 20, 1858
Creator:
Marschalk, Andrew, Sr.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Weekly Independent. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 47, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 27, 1858
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 27, 1858
Creator:
Marschalk, Andrew, Sr.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Belton Independent. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 34, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 5, 1859
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 5, 1859
Creator:
Marschalk, A., Sr.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Belton Independent. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 35, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 12, 1859
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 12, 1859
Creator:
Marschalk, A., Sr.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Belton Independent. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 36, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 19, 1859
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 19, 1859
Creator:
Marschalk, A., Sr.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Belton Independent. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 26, 1859
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 26, 1859
Creator:
Marschalk, A., Sr.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Belton Reporter. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 11, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 19, 1889
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 19, 1889
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Bell County Democrat (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1908
Semi-weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 5, 1908
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Bell County Democrat (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 12, 1908
Semi-weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 12, 1908
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Bell County Democrat (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 19, 1908
Semi-weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 19, 1908
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History