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The Ferris Wheel, Volume 4, Number 49, Saturday, August 7, 1897
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements.
Date:
August 7, 1897
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 4, Number 50, Saturday, August 14, 1897
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements.
Date:
August 14, 1897
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 4, Number 51, Saturday, August 21, 1897
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements.
Date:
August 21, 1897
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 4, Number 52, Saturday, August 28, 1897
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements.
Date:
August 28, 1897
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from J.E. Smith to Milton and Aaron Parks, August 28 1871]
Letter from J.E. Smith to Milton and Aaron Parks. The letter was written August 28, 1871 in Waxahachie, Texas.
Date:
August 28, 1871
Creator:
Smith, J.E.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 5, Number 49, Saturday, August 13, 1898
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements. Included in this issue is an article on peace efforts --[p.2] and war news --[p.3].
Date:
August 13, 1898
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 5, Number 48, Saturday, August 6, 1898
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements.
Date:
August 6, 1898
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 5, Number 51, Saturday, August 27, 1898
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements.
Date:
August 27, 1898
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, [Volume 5, Number 50], Saturday, August 20, 1898
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements. Included in this issue is war news --[p.2], and a proclamation of the suspension of hostilities by President McKinley.--[p.3]
Date:
August 20, 1898
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 6, Number 48, Saturday, August 12, 1899
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements. This issue includes a report of General MacArthur's advance against the Philippine insurgents.--[p.2]
Date:
August 12, 1899
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 6, Number 47, Saturday, August 5, 1899
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements. This issue includes a report of a charity auction of a bale of Texas cotton to raise funds for flood victims.--[p.3]
Date:
August 5, 1899
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 6, Number 50, Saturday, August 26, 1899
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements.
Date:
August 26, 1899
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ferris Wheel, Volume 6, Number 49, Saturday, August 19, 1899
Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements. This issue includes a report of great hurricane damage and aid needed in "Porto Rico"--[p.3], and an update on conditions in the Philippines.--[p.6]
Date:
August 19, 1899
Creator:
Ezzell, Frank
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ellis County
Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Ellis County, Texas. The north line of Mercer's Colony, which is also the south line of Peter's Colony, is shown on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
August 1, 1873
Creator:
Lucas, A. L.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sulky Attachments for Plows.
Patent for improvement in sulky attachments for plows. This invention allows farmers to "apply any kind of plow to the sulky-frame" (1).
Date:
August 21, 1876
Creator:
Langsford, Samuel P. & Stroud, Wiley N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvemnt in Cotton-Gin Feeders
Patent for new improvements to the cotton-gin making the feeders simpler to use especially for the well versed.
Date:
August 29, 1877
Creator:
Dorris, Stephen J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Copy-Holder.
Patent for an inexpensive and simple copy, record, or book holder stand that is easily adjustable. It sits on a table, and the stand is two horizontal plates that are positioned next to each other.
Date:
August 8, 1893
Creator:
Phillips, James M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pruning Implement.
Patent for a new and improved pruner. This design "has relation to that class of pruning elements in which a concave chisel-edge is formed in the upper end of the blade and one concave jaw of a pair of pruning-shears is formed at the lower end of the blade, while a saw is attached to one side of the blade and a pivoted jaw is attached to the lower end, operating together with the lower concave edge, and it contemplates certain improvements upon the pruning implement [of an earlier patent]" (lines 19-29).
Date:
August 17, 1886
Creator:
Bartly, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Some Lexical Variants of Pioneer Ellis County
The purpose of this study is to give the common words, together with a collection of old expressions or terms, of the oldest residents of Ellis County and to trace their usage to the states in the Old South. The importance of recording these old words and terms is to preserve the oldest forms of the community for those who are interested in the growth and development of local speech and, also, to trace the history of these words.
Date:
August 1950
Creator:
Crawford, Bernice Flake
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine a Sound Plan of Using the Ferris Community Resources as Instructional Aids
The problem of this study is to determine a sound plan of using community resources as instructional aids in the school. The purpose of the study is threefold: first, to discover criteria of soundness relative to the use of community resources; second, to discover local resources which could be utilized; and third, to determine how the resources could be used as instructional aids according to criteria.
Date:
August 1950
Creator:
Pollan, Charlie
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Plane Crash]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the crash of a Vought F-8 Crusader jet in a cotton field east of Maypearl, Texas.
Date:
August 14, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Tornado]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a tornado and severe weather in Cleburne, Midlothian, and Britton, and the damage that was sustained.
Date:
August 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Tornado, Parade, Baseball]
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a tornado and severe weather in Cleburne, Midlothian, and Britton, and the damage that was sustained, a carnival to be held at the Fair Park Foods Building in Dallas, Texas, as a fund raising project for the National Polio Foundation, and a dinner honoring two Texas League baseball players who set and broke the home run record.
Date:
August 31, 1956
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Changeable Exhibitor.
Patent for a changeable exhibitor, which has horizontally and vertically moving rollers for displaying items.
Date:
August 24, 1909
Creator:
Williams, Winfield B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History