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Combined Cotton Chopper and Planter (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper and Planter

Patent for a combined cotton chopper and planter, made to be easy to construct and easy to convert between functions.
Date: October 11, 1892
Creator: Parker, Francis H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1914 (open access)

The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1914

Weekly newspaper from Crockett, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 8, 1914
Creator: Aiken, W. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 15, 1914 (open access)

The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 15, 1914

Weekly newspaper from Crockett, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 15, 1914
Creator: Aiken, W. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 22, 1914 (open access)

The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 22, 1914

Weekly newspaper from Crockett, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 22, 1914
Creator: Aiken, W. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 29, 1914 (open access)

The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 29, 1914

Weekly newspaper from Crockett, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 29, 1914
Creator: Aiken, W. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 3, 1912 (open access)

The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 3, 1912

Weekly newspaper from Crockett, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 3, 1912
Creator: Aiken, W. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 10, 1912 (open access)

The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 10, 1912

Weekly newspaper from Crockett, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 10, 1912
Creator: Aiken, W. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 17, 1912 (open access)

The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 17, 1912

Weekly newspaper from Crockett, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 17, 1912
Creator: Aiken, W. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 24, 1912 (open access)

The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 24, 1912

Weekly newspaper from Crockett, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 24, 1912
Creator: Aiken, W. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1912 (open access)

The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1912

Weekly newspaper from Crockett, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 31, 1912
Creator: Aiken, W. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 1, 1914 (open access)

The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 1, 1914

Weekly newspaper from Crockett, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 1, 1914
Creator: Aiken, W. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed Attachment for Invalids. (open access)

Bed Attachment for Invalids.

Patent for a new and improved bed attachment for bed-ridden persons. This design "consists, principally, of a frame, hinged between the side boards of the bedstead, said frame having a removable seat and adapted to be brought to a vertical position for supporting the [bed-ridden person] in a sitting position. The invention also consists in the construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 10-16).
Date: October 11, 1881
Creator: Brown, Joshua Perry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-285 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-285

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: What is the legal authority for the creation of Independent School Districts at the Gainesville State School, the Gatesville State School and the Colored Girls Training School at Crockett, Texas, since Opinion No. WW-251 does not define these schools as Eleemosynary Institutions? and related questions.
Date: October 24, 1957
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Paul Osterhout to John Patterson and Junia Roberts Osterhout, October 9, 1881] (open access)

[Letter from Paul Osterhout to John Patterson and Junia Roberts Osterhout, October 9, 1881]

Letter from Paul Osterhout to his parents, John Patterson and Junia Roberts Osterhout. He wrote about a ride atop a train's caboose he took, change in employment at the train station, and requested his parents send him his winter coat.
Date: October 9, 1881
Creator: Osterhout, Paul
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Paul Osterhout to Osterhout Family, October 23, 1881] (open access)

[Letter from Paul Osterhout to Osterhout Family, October 23, 1881]

Letter from Paul Osterhout to Osterhout family. Paul wrote his family to inform them that he received the coat they sent and to tell them about his job at the train station. He included information about an assault that happened at the station and a lantern he stole to use on the way home.
Date: October 23, 1881
Creator: Osterhout, Paul
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Houston fire] (open access)

[News Script: Houston fire]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire that took place at the Globe Discount City Building in Houston.
Date: October 17, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

Houston County

Cadastral map of Houston County, Texas in the Piney Woods region. There are notes in different colored inks. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date: October 1868
Creator: Stremme, C. C. & Lungkwitz, Herman
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston County

Map of Houston County, Texas, including the Piney Woods region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: October 1868
Creator: Stremme, C. C.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from parolee/inmate to T. N. Carswell - October 8, 1955] (open access)

[Letter from parolee/inmate to T. N. Carswell - October 8, 1955]

A letter addressed to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas from a parolee/inmate in Huntsville, Texas, dated October 8, 1955. Subject No. 108,345 discusses the decision made by the Board regarding his parole having been turned down and advises Carswell of the decision he made to make the best of his time in prison. The reverse side includes notes handwritten by Carswell indicating that on December 14, 1955 he answered the correspondence from Subject No. 108,345 on October 8, 1955. He talked to Mr. Turner while in Austin on December 2, 1955 noting that Turner would look into the file and give any conclusion to the Board.
Date: October 8, 1955
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Rice-Texas] captions transcript

[News Clip: Rice-Texas]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the University of Texas football team playing against the Rice University team at the Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas.
Date: October 26, 1958
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Monroe-Crook House]

Photograph of the Monroe-Crook House in Crockett, Texas.
Date: October 1, 1975
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Edith Smith, October 1, 1994

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Edith Smith about her recollections of the Progressive Era of Texarkana, Texas. Smith discusses her marriage to Wilbur Smith, courting practices, her childhood, family servants, her education, church activities, a survey of downtown businesses, her job in the newspaper business, leisuretime activities, Red Cross activities during World War I, family reading material, and political activities.
Date: October 1, 1994
Creator: Rowe, Beverly & Smith, Edith
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spring Bed Bottom. (open access)

Spring Bed Bottom.

Patent for a new and improved spring bed-bottom. This design utilizes a new method of coiling the wire so that only one wire may be used to make up all of the springs. By moving diagonally from one end of one spring to the end of another, this design eliminates the possibility of losing any individual spring.
Date: October 18, 1881
Creator: Eichelberger, Henry. H. C. & Bruner, Hilary Wentz
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Mr. W. Brown Baker, October 25, 1945] (open access)

[Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Mr. W. Brown Baker, October 25, 1945]

Letter from Harris L. Kempner to W. Browne Baker announcing his arrival home and looking forward to going to Seabrook in the near future.
Date: October 25, 1945
Creator: Kempner, Harris Leon
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History