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Suspension-Bridge (open access)

Suspension-Bridge

Patent for a more easily constructible "bridge the pillar or roadway of which is adjustable to different heights, and to meet certain contingencies and while adjustable as a whole is also adjustable at any point whatsoever, whereby the roadway may be maintained level regardless of the yielding of certain portions of the structure" (lines 11-17).
Date: September 24, 1889
Creator: Greer, William Henry Clay
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence Wire Tightener. (open access)

Fence Wire Tightener.

Patent for a new and improved wire-tightener. This design "relates to devices for tightening the wires of a wire fence whether in the act of building the latter or after it has been put up and the wire is stretched thereon; and the invention consists of a metallic lever-arm adapted to be seated and adapted to turn in a hole in the fence-post, and upon whose body the wire is tightened as the arm is revolved" (lines 9-16).
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: Jinkins, Thomas William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Building Machine (open access)

Fence-Building Machine

Patent for providing "for the weaving or construction of a picket fence by means of a simple and inexpensive machine, but one which will insure a proper binding of the pickets between the several strands of supporting-wire" (lines 10-14).
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: Kline, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 18, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 1, 1889 (open access)

The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 18, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 1, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 1, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 19, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 8, 1889 (open access)

The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 19, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 8, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 8, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 20, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 15, 1889 (open access)

The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 20, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 15, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 15, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 21, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 22, 1889 (open access)

The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 21, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 22, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 22, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 22, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 29, 1889 (open access)

The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 22, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 29, 1889

Weekly newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 29, 1889
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History