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Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 260, Ed. 1, Sunday, August 25, 1895 (open access)

Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 260, Ed. 1, Sunday, August 25, 1895

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 25, 1895
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 261, Ed. 1, Tuesday, August 27, 1895 (open access)

Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 261, Ed. 1, Tuesday, August 27, 1895

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 27, 1895
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 262, Ed. 1, Wednesday, August 28, 1895 (open access)

Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 262, Ed. 1, Wednesday, August 28, 1895

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 28, 1895
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 263, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 29, 1895 (open access)

Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 263, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 29, 1895

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 29, 1895
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 264, Ed. 1, Friday, August 30, 1895 (open access)

Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 264, Ed. 1, Friday, August 30, 1895

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 30, 1895
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 265, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 31, 1895 (open access)

Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 265, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 31, 1895

Daily newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 31, 1895
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 8, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 1, 1895 (open access)

Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 8, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 1, 1895

Weekly newspaper from Shiner, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 1, 1895
Creator: Ward, C. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 10, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 15, 1895 (open access)

Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 10, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 15, 1895

Weekly newspaper from Shiner, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 15, 1895
Creator: Ward, C. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 11, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 22, 1895 (open access)

Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 11, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 22, 1895

Weekly newspaper from Shiner, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 22, 1895
Creator: Ward, C. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 12, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 29, 1895 (open access)

Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 12, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 29, 1895

Weekly newspaper from Shiner, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 29, 1895
Creator: Ward, C. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Canal or Ditch Digging Machine. (open access)

Canal or Ditch Digging Machine.

Patent for a canal or ditch digging machine that has a carriage and a mechanism that draws the carriage across the ground, and a boring-tool beneath the carriage. The boring-tool can bore at an adjustable angle.
Date: August 20, 1895
Creator: Hoefs, Otto
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Pot. (open access)

Coffee-Pot.

Patent for "improvements in coffee-pots, and has for its object the provision of an improved coffee-grounds holder, together with a device of improved form for spraying the water thereover, the latter device operating in conjunction with a condenser; and a further object is to provide the pot with an adjustable handle." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 20, 1895
Creator: Cummings, James K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine. (open access)

Adding-Machine.

Patent for an adding-machine meant to "add fixed amounts of money received or to calculate the number of days a laborer has worked or the number of fractions of days" (lines 14-17). Mounted keys have mechanisms that rotate a ratchet wheel or disk. "Secured to the shaft upon which this ratchet wheel or disk is mounted is a rate-indicator, consisting of a disk divided off into radial sections, and also divided by lines running parallel to the circumference of said disk, dividing the same up into sections, which indicate money advanced on pay-roll, addition column, total amount at a fixed rate, and the number of days worked by any workman" (lines 25-34).
Date: August 27, 1895
Creator: McElyea, James L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooking Cotton-Seed Meal. (open access)

Apparatus for Cooking Cotton-Seed Meal.

Patent for an apparatus for cooking cotton-seed meal meant to get the maximum amount of oil for the meal used and puts moisture into dry meal and evaporates excess moisture in meal. Meal is continuously supplied through the machine and water-bath. The steam does not burn or harm the meal.
Date: August 27, 1895
Creator: Dabney, Benjamin & Yopp, William I.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Stock. (open access)

Animal-Stock.

Patent for an improved animal-stock that holds animals during branding, dehorning, castrating, &c. It looks like an open-topped cage where the operator puts the animal, and the animal cannot move. The invention is on a platform and can tip to one side and a chain is tied from the top of the machine to the bottom of the frame.
Date: August 27, 1895
Creator: Schecher, Conrad
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Stuffing Mattresses. (open access)

Machine for Stuffing Mattresses.

Patent for an improved and simple automatic machine for stuffing mattresses that is similar to previous patents granted to the inventor (Nos. 376,399 and 399,093). The mattresses can be of different widths.
Date: August 13, 1895
Creator: Stephenson, Edwin N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad. (open access)

Knee-Pad.

Patent for a simple and expensive knee-pad used while picking cotton, berries, &c. The invention affords "the most perfect protection to the user by protecting his knee against contact with objects which would tend to bruise and injure it, and by preventing the dampness of the ground from being transmitted to the knee, which, as is well known, results in various diseases, such as rheumatism" (lines 13-20).
Date: August 6, 1895
Creator: Hamilton, James William & Siebenthall, John Francis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack. (open access)

Lifting-Jack.

Patent for a strong, simple, and easily-operable lifting-jack meant for use in railroad car-axle boxes. It is a lifting bar with ratchet teeth, a lever that pivots against the lifting bar, a mechanism that holds and releases the bar, a pawl, and a double-arm spring connected to the pawl.
Date: August 13, 1895
Creator: Hough, William S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lantern. (open access)

Lantern.

Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and efficient lantern meant to be used outside in high winds, and can carry a candle or oil light.
Date: August 20, 1895
Creator: Seys, Cornelius D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad. (open access)

Knee-Pad.

Patent for a simple and efficient knee-pad "made of leather or other pliable material, padded with a yielding lining to give comfort to the wearer" (lines 9-11). It prevents gravel, moisture, and other things from injuring the knee of the user.
Date: August 27, 1895
Creator: Dowling, Stonewall Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Treating Slag and Furnace Therefor. (open access)

Process of Treating Slag and Furnace Therefor.

Patent for a process of treating slag and furnace therefore. It has an improved method for separates melted metals produced during smelting and extracting the precious metals from slag. The richer matte and base-bullion run off separately and into separate taps.
Date: August 20, 1895
Creator: van Cleve, Charles M. & Rhodes, Robert D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Frame for Agricultural Implements. (open access)

Sulky-Frame for Agricultural Implements.

Patent for "a new and improved sulky-frame adapted for the attachment of several agricultural implements and provided with means for elevating or lowering the frame and the implement thereto attached, whereby the latter is brought in contact with the soil or elevated above such contact." (Lines 16-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 27, 1895
Creator: Carson, John Richard & Denman, Jackson Harvey, Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire-House Supporter. (open access)

Fire-House Supporter.

Patent for a fire-hose supporter that can be stretched out, washed, and dried easily. The invention also has a hose-carrying frame that elevates the hose and allows for the hose to be quickly and easily used.
Date: August 20, 1895
Creator: Bramble, James Elworth
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Exhaust-Steam Condenser. (open access)

Exhaust-Steam Condenser.

Patent for an exhaust-steam condenser meant for steam-engines in places where water needs to be conserved. It also "prevents the use of water for cooling the surfaces of the condenser" (lines 14-16).
Date: August 20, 1895
Creator: Bachman, Joseph A. & Goeth, Adolf C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History