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The Rockdale Messenger. (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 1880
Weekly newspaper from Rockdale, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 11, 1880
Creator:
Breeding, Enoch
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide Composition.
Patent for an insecticide to kill red ants and "other noxious insects" (line 9).
Date:
March 24, 1885
Creator:
Howard, Frank M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace Carrier.
Patent for a new and improved trace carrier. This design "consists in a frame having an oblong slot . . . for the passage of the back-band, and which has the trace-hook formed as a portion of it, in combination with a pivoted triangular-shaped bar or bars, which are loosely connected to the frame, and which close in the oblong opening . . . to clamp or hold the back-band . . . to provide a buckle and back-band hook which can be attached to either a cloth or leather back-band by frictional contact . . . prevent[ing] the necessity of . . . forming tongues upon the buckles" (lines 14-30).
Date:
March 12, 1889
Creator:
Clark, Alexander E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Puller.
Patent for a new and improved cotton stalk puller. This design utilizes "[a] pulling-wheel having radial jaws that are opened and closed by cam devices" when "[i]t is driven astride the [cotton] row, and will be found to operate rapidly and with absolute certainty. It is simple, durable, and may be constructed at a very small expense" (lines 79-84).
Date:
March 15, 1881
Creator:
Wilson, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Deep Well Pump.
Patent for a new and improved well pump. This design consists in "the timber bed arranged on the bottom of the well, in combination with two superposed metallic cylinders connected by a stock, said stock being provided at the bottom with inwardly-turned flanges made fast to said bed" (lines 55-60).
Date:
March 22, 1887
Creator:
Clark, Alexander Evans
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History