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Hill County
Map of Hill County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
October 30, 1857
Creator:
Martin, Joseph
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hill County
Map of Hill County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
October 1882
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rein-Holder.
Patent for improvement in rein-holders that are being used in carriages and wagons by using two horizontal jaws, one with a downwardly-projecting rear end and the other with a downwardly-projecting front end; the first jaw is secured to the side of the wagon and the second jaw is pivoted to the first jaw. This device will "hold the reins when the driver is absent and capable of being tripped by pressure of the driver’s foot" (lines 11-13). Illustration is included.
Date:
October 6, 1891
Creator:
Watson, Thomas H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongue Support.
Patent for a new and improved tongue-support. This design "is to provide a simple and inexpensive tongue-support capable of being readily applied to any vehicle" (lines 9-12). It "consist[s] of the two wires provided intermediate their ends with coils and twisted together at opposite sides of the coils to provide the spring-arms" (lines 48-51).
Date:
October 25, 1892
Creator:
Johnson, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Car Coupling and Bumper.
Patent for a combined car coupling and bumper. It has a draw-head with a throat, mouth, recess, and coupling pin hole; the recess has a slot that opens into the front of the draw-head; a lock-block that fits in the slot; a pin-seat that receives the lock-block; a spiral spring that holds in the pin-seat; and a coupling pin in the pin seat and a link.
Date:
October 2, 1894
Creator:
Wallace, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental-Plate-Polishing Tool.
Patent for a machine that dresses or reduces dental plates uniformly, and can dress dental plates to any thickness. It also can "provide permanently-exposed means for indicating the thickness to which the plate is being reduced" (lines 16-19). It will not puncture or weaken dental plates.
Date:
October 13, 1896
Creator:
Barnes, Preston B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter Attachment For Cultivators.
Patent for a new and useful planter attachment for cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 24, 1899
Creator:
Collier, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sweep Stock Attachment for Plows
Patent for an "improved sweep-stock attachment for plows", so that a "sweep or shovel may be attached to a plow and operated at any desired angle." (lines 8-11)
Date:
October 1, 1901
Creator:
Ziecheck, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Hubbard City News. (Hubbard City, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, October 7, 1904
Weekly newspaper from Hubbard City, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 7, 1904
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Hubbard City News. (Hubbard City, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 1904
Weekly newspaper from Hubbard City, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 14, 1904
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Hubbard City News. (Hubbard City, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 1904
Weekly newspaper from Hubbard City, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 21, 1904
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment
Patent for a plow attachment. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 25, 1904
Creator:
Smith, Fletcher & Smith, Joe Vane
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Hubbard City News. (Hubbard City, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, October 28, 1904
Weekly newspaper from Hubbard City, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 28, 1904
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Hubbard City News. (Hubbard City, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, October 12, 1906
Weekly newspaper from Hubbard City, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 12, 1906
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Hubbard City News. (Hubbard City, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, October 4, 1907
Weekly newspaper from Hubbard City, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 4, 1907
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Hubbard City News. (Hubbard City, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, October 11, 1907
Weekly newspaper from Hubbard City, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 11, 1907
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Hubbard City News. (Hubbard City, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 1907
Weekly newspaper from Hubbard City, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 25, 1907
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap.
Patent for an insect trap that entraps and kills insects that infest live plants or trees. This trap has a lantern to attract insects; the lantern is mounded in a pan that can be filled with liquid that injures and kills the insects.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Cook, Katherine B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for rail joints that will remove the need for bolts to secure the chairs. The joints will also allow the chair to be removed from the rail without using tools.
Date:
October 14, 1913
Creator:
Ernest, Albert C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Invitation from Blair Stribling to Etta Mae Carroll - October 5, 1915]
Invitation extended to Miss Etta Mae Carroll of Abbott, Texas to serve as Duchess of Abbott in the Texas Cotton Palace of Waco, Texas. It is signed by Blair Stribling, the Queen's Chancellor. Included with the invitation is information for visiting duchesses and their attendants at the queen's court and a court calendar.
Date:
October 5, 1915
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pin-Fastener.
Patent for pin fastener that safely allows for buttons, jewelry and other items to attached to clothes and not pierce the wearer.
Date:
October 5, 1915
Creator:
Towler, Mary E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety Car Net
Patent for safety car-net to be attached to train freight-cars closing the space between adjacent cars and protecting train workers from falling.
Date:
October 9, 1917
Creator:
Matthews, Harrison C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hobble.
Patent for a new, simple hobble for cultivators made up of fewer parts to reduce cost and for east of use and adjustment. Illustration included.
Date:
October 30, 1917
Creator:
Ferguson, John R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Luggage-Carrier
Patent for improvements on rear folding luggage-carriers for motor cars.
Date:
October 8, 1918
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, Monroe C. & Dobbs, Charles S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History