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The Western Star. (Paris, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 1, 1851
Weekly newspaper from Paris, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 1, 1851
Creator:
Lewelling, Thomas
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Star. (Paris, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 4, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 8, 1851
Weekly newspaper from Paris, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 8, 1851
Creator:
Lewelling, Thomas
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Star. (Paris, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 15, 1851
Weekly newspaper from Paris, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 15, 1851
Creator:
Lewelling, Thomas
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Star. (Paris, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 22, 1851
Weekly newspaper from Paris, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 22, 1851
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Star. (Paris, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 7, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 29, 1851
Weekly newspaper from Paris, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 29, 1851
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Henry S. Moore to Charles B. Moore, March 5, 1860]
Letter to Charles B. Moore from Henry S. Moore regarding plans to build a cotton gin and how the work on the building would be done. On the first page is a drawing of the building and the second page contains an estimate of costs for construction.
Date:
March 5, 1860
Creator:
Moore, Henry S.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Envelope from Liza Moore to Charles B. Moore, March 1861]
Envelope addressed to Charles B. Moore in Paris, Lamar County, Texas. There is a note written in blue ink that says "A friendly letter written to Henry from Liza Moore at Flatwood, Ark." According to the dates written at the top, the letter was written on March 8, 1861 and March 10, 1861. The note at the bottom left corner says that it was received on March 27, 1861. A portion of the envelope has been torn away, including most of the postmark.
Date:
March 1861
Creator:
Moore, Liza
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Henry S. Moore to Ziza Moore, March 29, 1861]
Letter from Henry S. Moore to Ziza Moore, addressed as "Papa." He discusses the secession of Texas from the Union, slavery, crops, and a recent turkey hunting trip. The letter is torn in several places so that not all of it can be read. All that is visible of the sender's name is S. Moore.
Date:
March 29, 1861
Creator:
Moore, Henry S.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from J. S. Nimmo to Charles B. Moore, March 31, 1861]
Letter from J. S. Nimmo to Charles B. Moore. Much of the letter is written as a poem discussing recent news, secession, and slavery, and there is a drawing in pencil of a bearded man on the last page. There is a note written in ink on the first page from Henry S. Moore to Charles. He says that he is mailing this letter along with another from J. B. Harris to him. The note is dated June 11, 1861 in Paris.
Date:
March 31, 1861
Creator:
Nimmo, J. S. & Moore, Henry S.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Improvement in Apparatus for Separating the Seed from Fruit-Pulp
Patent for a simple machine "for separating the seed from the pulp of the Bois-de-Arc or Osage orange and other apples where the seed is required to be separated uninjured for planing and other purposes" (line 26-29).
Date:
March 29, 1870
Creator:
Mayo, Robert H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Curtain-Rollers and Brackets.
Patent for the improvement of curtain rollers that may be installed inside or outside the frame.
Date:
March 26, 1878
Creator:
Morris, James P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a mechanism that aims "to promote convenience in adjusting and regulating cotton choppers" (line 44-46), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 6, 1883
Creator:
Mowrey, Ephraim L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn Sheller.
Patent for a new and improved corn sheller. This design "comprises a double-shelling surface of peculiar construction in one plate or bed-piece, whereby a corn-sheller having but little weight is produced, which shall be capable of shelling either one ear of corn, or, by using both hands, two ears of corn at the same time, and which shall do its work with increased ease, ready clearance for the shelled corn, and protection, when using both hands, against their striking each other" (lines 12-21).
Date:
March 4, 1884
Creator:
Matthews, Luther
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Seat Recorder.
Patent for a new and improved car-seat recorder. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the following elements: a car-axle, the depressible car-seat, and the recording apparatus arranged alongside the seat and consisting of friction feed-wheels, a paper strip, meshing spur-gears, and a puncturing device arranged vertically, a lever which operatively connects said seat and apparatus, and gearing which connects the latter with the axle, whereby movement of the car operates said apparatus and enables the record to be made by slitting the strip when the seat is depressed" (lines 22-33).
Date:
March 2, 1886
Creator:
Bywaters, Joseph K. & Burke, John Y.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Frame.
Patent for a new and improved quilting frame. This design consists in "the combination of the vertical standards bent forward at their upper ends and provided with dovetailed projections, the track-bar beveled toward the upper edge and provided with dovetailed notches to receive the projections whereby the said bar may be removed from the standards, the folding braces between the standards, the roller-bar having the rollers to run on the track-bar, and the frame connected to the roller-bar by the suspending-cords" (lines 38-49).
Date:
March 20, 1888
Creator:
Raines, Burress Wesley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn that consists of an upright frame, an adjustable central ring, a dasher rod, and devices for operating the rod.
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
Martin, William F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and improved construction for sliding gates that is easily opened and closed with minimal effort. The gate slides back and forth on a track which is set in a frame above the gate.
Date:
March 27, 1894
Creator:
Smith, Stansbury J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Bicycle.
Patent for a railway-bicycle that travels on one rail and needs two wheels with connecting frames. It has a forward double flanged wheel and a wheel behind the first wheel, and this machine is faster and lighter than other similar machines.
Date:
March 26, 1895
Creator:
Herz, Raymond
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth-Bolt Clamp.
Patent for a clamp "to hold the folds of a bolt of cloth in position and to prevent the same form being unwound except when desired." (Lines 23-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 30, 1897
Creator:
Leveritt, Nicholas T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arm for Telegraph - Poles.
Patent for a new and useful arm for telegraph poles.
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Herald. (Paris, Tex.), Vol. [2], No. [52], Ed. 1 Thursday, March 31, 1898
Weekly newspaper from Paris, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 31, 1898
Creator:
Straiho, A. P. A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chainless Bicycle.
Patent for a new and useful chainless bicycle, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 20, 1900
Creator:
Baker, Erle K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rein-holder.
Patent for simple, inexpensive and efficient rein holder "adapted to be readily applied to a vehicle and capable of ready adjustment to arrange it to suit the height of a horse and of supporting the lines and of preventing them from coming in contact with the tail of the animal" (lines 11-16).
Date:
March 5, 1901
Creator:
Campbell, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead
Patent for bedsteads. Illustration included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Stone, John Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History