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Hemphill County

Map of the Panhandle Plains region covering Hemphill County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: July 1888
Creator: Beaumont, G. N.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Johnson County

Map of Johnson County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:66,667 (2000 varas per inch).
Date: July 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 37, Ed. 1, Friday, July 6, 1888 (open access)

The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 37, Ed. 1, Friday, July 6, 1888

Weekly newspaper from San Saba, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 6, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 40, Ed. 1, Friday, July 27, 1888 (open access)

The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 40, Ed. 1, Friday, July 27, 1888

Weekly newspaper from San Saba, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 27, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1, Monday, July 16, 1888 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1, Monday, July 16, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 16, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1, Tuesday, July 17, 1888 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1, Tuesday, July 17, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 17, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 9, Ed. 1, Wednesday, July 25, 1888 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 9, Ed. 1, Wednesday, July 25, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 25, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 10, Ed. 1, Thursday, July 26, 1888 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 10, Ed. 1, Thursday, July 26, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 26, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1, Friday, July 27, 1888 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1, Friday, July 27, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 27, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 12, Ed. 1, Saturday, July 28, 1888 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 12, Ed. 1, Saturday, July 28, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 28, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 13, Ed. 1, Monday, July 30, 1888 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 13, Ed. 1, Monday, July 30, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 30, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1, Tuesday, July 31, 1888 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1, Tuesday, July 31, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 31, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1, Thursday, July 19, 1888 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1, Thursday, July 19, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 19, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1, Friday, July 20, 1888 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1, Friday, July 20, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 20, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1, Saturday, July 21, 1888 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1, Saturday, July 21, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 21, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 8, Ed. 1, Tuesday, July 24, 1888 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 8, Ed. 1, Tuesday, July 24, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 24, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1, Wednesday, July 18, 1888 (open access)

Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1, Wednesday, July 18, 1888

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 18, 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carriage Top. (open access)

Carriage Top.

Patent for a new and improved carriage top. This design consists in "the combination, with a vehicle-seat, a series of top-supporting bows pivoted thereto, and a jointed brace having its lower end pivoted to the seat and its upper end to one of the bows, of a rigid operating-lever having its upper end pivoted to said jointed brace and its lower end adjustably connected with the seat, whereby the position of the lower end of said lever may be varied and the brace and top secured in any desired position" (lines 51-60).
Date: July 3, 1888
Creator: Goelet, Edward Buncombe
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shearing and Punching Machine. (open access)

Shearing and Punching Machine.

Patent for punches and shears combined to cut metal longitudinally.
Date: July 3, 1888
Creator: Echols, Christaphor Columbus
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Arc Lamp (open access)

Arc Lamp

Patent for improvements arc lamps that "will be uninfluenced by the jar of the locomotive" (lines 17-19). Consisting of carbon-carriers rotated by clock-train.
Date: July 10, 1888
Creator: Gaston, E. James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap. (open access)

Animal Trap.

Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "the combination of the wire frame having the parallel base-arms, the coiled-springs, the upwardly-extending arms, and the downwardly-extending loop, the loop or ring on the bend and engaged portions of said wire, and the trigger-wire having the frontwardly-projecting point engaging said ring" (lines 80-87).
Date: July 10, 1888
Creator: Beversdorf, Louis, Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter Combined. (open access)

Corn and Cotton Planter Combined.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "has relation to that class of cotton and corn planters in which are hoppers smaller at their top than at their bottom and hoppers larger at their top than at their bottom, to adapt them for planting cotton-seed and corn, respectively. It is the object of the invention to provide the planter with interchangeable hoppers of the above construction, whereby either can be used upon the same machine, as found desirable, the hopper-seat being especially adapted to receive and hold thereon either one of the hoppers" (lines 12-24).
Date: July 10, 1888
Creator: Mallison, James C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Beef Tenderer. (open access)

Beef Tenderer.

Patent for a new and improved meat tenderizer. This design consists in "the combination, with the triangular end plates having the bearing-notches, the detachable connecting-bar provided with the threaded ends and shoulders, the thumb-nuts, the smooth rollers, and the coiled springs, of the crank-handle and the [other] roller provided with the teeth having square flat faces and flat sides at right angles to said faces and arranged in aligned longitudinal series and spirally arranged circumferentially, the areas of the teeth being one-fourth of an inch" (lines 7-18).
Date: July 17, 1888
Creator: Welch, Lee L.
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 "consist[s] of a draw-head having a spring-actuated sliding piece projecting into the draw-head, with a shouldered end therein, and a hole adapted to register with the coupling-holes in the draw-head, a coupling-link having yielding slotted pieces pivoted at its ends above slots in the ends of the link, and a coupling-pin with reacting spring mounted in a frame having a winding-drum, and a rope connected with the coupling-pin, the latter projecting through and engaging the sliding piece and link" (lines 76-87).
Date: July 24, 1888
Creator: Griffith, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History