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Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 196, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 18, 1885 (open access)

Evening Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 196, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 18, 1885

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 18, 1885
Creator: Burson, J. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 986, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 18, 1885 (open access)

Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 986, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 18, 1885

Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 18, 1885
Creator: Hanschke, Robert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from P.E. Peareson to W. Von Rosenberg - August 18, 1885] (open access)

[Letter from P.E. Peareson to W. Von Rosenberg - August 18, 1885]

Letter written to W. Von Rosenberg from P.E. Peareson concerning his interest in land, which he intended to give back to Mrs. Glasscock.
Date: August 18, 1885
Creator: Peareson, P. E.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 18, 1885 (open access)

San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 18, 1885

Weekly newspaper from San Marcos, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 18, 1885
Creator: Hull, C. M.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
El Paso Daily Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 103, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 18, 1885 (open access)

El Paso Daily Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 103, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 18, 1885

Daily newspaper from El Paso, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 18, 1885
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 116, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 18, 1885 (open access)

The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 116, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 18, 1885

Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 18, 1885
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 277, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 18, 1885 (open access)

The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 277, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 18, 1885

Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 18, 1885
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Cosmopolitan (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 309, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 18, 1885 (open access)

The Daily Cosmopolitan (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 309, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 18, 1885

Daily newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 18, 1885
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Cutting Apparatus. (open access)

Cloth Cutting Apparatus.

Patent for a new and improved cloth-cutting machine. This design "relates to cloth-cutting apparatus, and particularly to that class wherein the fabric or other material to be cut is operated upon by revolving cutters; and it has for its object to provide devices of this character which may be enabled to cut the goods by a continuous forward movement of the said cutters" (lines 9-15).
Date: August 18, 1885
Creator: Monday, Robert Owens
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a removable churn-body, of the frame, with a friction-wheel mounted thereon, a dasher-spindle provided with friction-wheel, movable notched bar, and spring-rod" (lines 79-83).
Date: August 18, 1885
Creator: Conner, Laurence H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve Gear. (open access)

Valve Gear.

Patent for a new and improved valve-gear. This design "relates to improvements in mechanical movements adapted especially to the valve-gear of steam-engines, and is designed to produce a device having a reciprocatory movement having intermediate impulses" (lines 9-14).
Date: August 18, 1885
Creator: Pinkham, Delmar D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Magneto-Electric Telegraphy. (open access)

Magneto-Electric Telegraphy.

Patent for a machine that telegraphs messages between distant points by means of induced currents that produce magnets without the use of battery current, including illustrations.
Date: August 18, 1885
Creator: Brown, Fred H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self Cleaning Plow. (open access)

Self Cleaning Plow.

Patent for a new and improved self-cleaning plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a mold-board having a plane face on the larger portion of its area, a blade having an axle journaled near the center of the said plane, a wheel journaled in the plow, with its rim parallel to and extending below the landside of the plow, a beveled gear-wheel upon the said wheel-axle, and another beveled wheel upon the blade-axle, engaging each other" (lines 79-87).
Date: August 18, 1885
Creator: Jones, Allen
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton, Corn, and Pea Planter. (open access)

Cotton, Corn, and Pea Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a planter and fertilizer-distributer, of a revolving drum having openings communicating with a groove in its periphery for sowing fertilizer, and a seeding mechanism arranged above the drum, whereby the seeds will fall into the groove of the drum and be thereby conveyed to the furrow" (lines 3-9).
Date: August 18, 1885
Creator: Applewhite, David Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 195, Ed. 1, Tuesday, August 18, 1885 (open access)

The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 195, Ed. 1, Tuesday, August 18, 1885

Daily newspaper (except Sunday) from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 18, 1885
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 243, Ed. 1, Tuesday, August 18, 1885 (open access)

Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 243, Ed. 1, Tuesday, August 18, 1885

Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 18, 1885
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History