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Evening Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 125, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 23, 1870 (open access)

Evening Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 125, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 23, 1870

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date: August 23, 1870
Creator: Chew, J. C.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease, August 23, 1870] (open access)

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease, August 23, 1870]

The sixth in a series of eleven letters to Lucadia Pease from E.M. Peaseā€”in them he discusses, among other things, yellow-fever and typhoid epidemics.
Date: August 23, 1870
Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Ranchero. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 10, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 23, 1870 (open access)

The Daily Ranchero. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 10, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 23, 1870

Tri-weekly newspaper from Brownsville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 23, 1870
Creator: Maltby, H. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Daily State Journal. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 175, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 23, 1870 (open access)

Daily State Journal. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 175, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 23, 1870

Daily newspaper from Austin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 23, 1870
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Gang-Plow and Cultivator (open access)

Improvement in Combined Gang-Plow and Cultivator

Patent for a new gang-plow and cultivator design, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 23, 1870
Creator: Thornton, Sterling C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Pickers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.

Patent for a cotton-picking machine that "consists in a set of saws mounted on a truck, and geared with the driving-wheels, to run in the tops of the plants...and detach the cotton and convey it to a brushing-roller above, which detaches the cotton from the saws and delivers it into a receptacle behind." (Lines 10-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 23, 1870
Creator: McRae, Daniel M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History