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El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. Seventh Year, No. 55, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 8, 1887 (open access)

El Paso Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. Seventh Year, No. 55, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 8, 1887

Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "the combination, with a draw-bar, a sliding box, a movable eccentric secured therein, a coupling-rod, and a pivoted locking-jaw, of a locking-plate secured to said box and adapted to lock the jaw against movement" (lines 84-89).
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: Zedler, Fridrick
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists "in combination with the jaws . . . which are arranged to move laterally and simultaneously . . . each having two side hooks combined with the bar and springs . . . the levers, shaft, pulleys, and the chains which pass over the pulleys and connect the rollers with the jaws" (lines 86-96).
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: Neal, Adam Sylvester
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 47, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 8, 1887 (open access)

The Dallas Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 47, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 8, 1887

Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: Gilbert, C. E.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 89, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 8, 1887 (open access)

Sherman Daily Register (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 89, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 8, 1887

Daily newspaper from Sherman, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 57, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 8, 1887 (open access)

Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 57, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 8, 1887

Daily newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: Rankin, John G. & Levin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 220, Ed. 1, Tuesday, March 8, 1887 (open access)

Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 220, Ed. 1, Tuesday, March 8, 1887

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 155, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 8, 1887 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 155, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 8, 1887

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 1471, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 8, 1887 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 1471, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 8, 1887

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Fluid (open access)

Washing-Fluid

Patent for invention has relation to improved detergent and it consists in combining certain ingredients and the manner and proportions as will be here in after fully set forth, and particular pointed out in the claim appended.[10]
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: Mnnick, Maggie, E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Arc Lamp. (open access)

Electric Arc Lamp.

Patent for a new and improved electric-arc lamp. This design consists in "the combination of a single horseshoe electro-magnet in the circuit of a main line, connected on the positive side to a binding-post having shunt material as a bushing around it, an armature hinged at its center and free to vibrate throughout its length with a carbon-rod holder, which it is adapted to clutch at the hinged part, said magnet acting upon the ends of the armature only, and an adjustable trip and limiting-stops, and means permitting both to be readily adjusted upon the outside of the casing to regulate the lamp" (lines 46-58).
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: McDill, Henry C. & Gaston, James E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Saddle. (open access)

Spring Saddle.

Patent for a new and improved spring-saddle. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the saddle-tree, the spiral springs secured in pairs under the lateral halves of the saddle-tree, and the stirrup-straps, of the metallic plates each provided with a series of holes about its edge for securing padding thereto, and with a notch and a slit at the middle of one side for the passage of the stirrup-straps" (lines 57-64).
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: Quintero, Antonio Hidalgo
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Arm. (open access)

Fire-Arm.

Patent for an improvement to adjusting rifle barrels and holding those adjustments in place. Includes illustrations.
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: Alston, William F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History