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Animal Power.
Patent for a new and improved animal power (engine). This design "consists in an animal-power constructed with a small wheel placed loosely upon a stationary upright shaft, and connected by hinges with the inner ends of arms and sweeps attached to the main wheel, which is mounted upon caster-wheels to support the weight of the wheel and its attachments. . . . The object of this invention is to economize power and promote convenience" (lines 16-25).
Date:
October 31, 1882
Creator:
Knox, William Curtis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Roaster.
Patent for a coffee roaster, including illustrations. The purpose of the coffee maker "is to provide an improved apparatus by which green coffee may be evenly, quickly, and economically parched or roasted to the desired degree without burning" (lines 8-12).
Date:
October 31, 1882
Creator:
Dunn, William Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Print. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. 44, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 31, 1882
Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 31, 1882
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Print. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 44, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 31, 1882
Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 31, 1882
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Evening Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 242, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 31, 1882
Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 31, 1882
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 120, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 31, 1882
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 31, 1882
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 191, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 31, 1882
Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 31, 1882
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Matilda Dodd to Mary Ann Dodd and Charles B. Moore, October 31, 1882]
Letter from Matilda Dodd to her daughter, discussing family news and discusses unhappiness that she has to move out of her house so her son and daughter-in-law can move in and they don't seem to appreciate it. Many people have colds and she recommends a cure for the chills of hop bitters. Also mentions dry weather, along with flies and grasshoppers is damaging the wheat crop.
Date:
October 31, 1882
Creator:
Dodd, Matilda
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Norton's Daily Union Intelligencer. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 156, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 31, 1882
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 31, 1882
Creator:
Norton, A. B.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Plow.
Patent for a new and improved revolving plow. This design calls for a cylinder with blades attached radially for "cutting up, breaking, and turning over the soil or turf, in which the cutter blades are freed automatically" (lines 7-10). This plow cuts up, breaks, and turns over earth faster than previous designs.
Date:
October 31, 1882
Creator:
Hurd, Judson B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Running Gear for Vehicles.
Patent for a new and improved running gear for vehicles. This design "has for its object . . . to dispense with the reach or pole, and while doing this to provide for or avoid interference with the normal action of the springs, and to render it applicable to vehicles already in use. To these ends [the] invention consists in the employment of braces adapted to be connected to and permit the springs to have the required movement, and also of additional braces arranged between the body support or frame and axles, having the one a slotted plate and the other a slotted bridge" (lines 15-27).
Date:
October 31, 1882
Creator:
Roberts, John William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 271, Ed. 1, Tuesday, October 31, 1882
Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 31, 1882
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design utilizes a roller shaft, hand crank, ratchet wheel, and pawl to stretch wires to any desired tautness.
Date:
October 31, 1882
Creator:
Milby, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1209: Reeves, Sarah (Deceased)
Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Reeves, Sarah (died November 16, 1889) and R.A. Reeves (Executor or Guardian)
Date:
1882-10-30/1890-08-23
Creator:
Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Evening Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 241, Ed. 1 Monday, October 30, 1882
Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 30, 1882
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 119, Ed. 1 Monday, October 30, 1882
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 30, 1882
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Norton's Daily Union Intelligencer. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 155, Ed. 1 Monday, October 30, 1882
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 30, 1882
Creator:
Norton, A. B.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 293, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 29, 1882
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 29, 1882
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 190, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 29, 1882
Daily newspaper from Galveston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 29, 1882
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Paul Osterhout to Gertrude Osterhout, October 29, 1882]
Letter from Paul Osterhout to his sister, Gertrude Osterhout, about his recent arrival at their family home in Belton, Texas. Paul was sent for by their father so that Paul could work with him in the post office. He mentioned visits he had made around town and told her he would forward a letter to her.
Date:
October 29, 1882
Creator:
Osterhout, Paul
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Waco Daily Examiner. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 270, Ed. 1, Sunday, October 29, 1882
Daily newspaper from Waco, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 29, 1882
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 45, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 28, 1882
Weekly - and some times semi-weekly - newspaper from Bastrop, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 28, 1882
Creator:
Cain, Thomas C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Comanche Chief. (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 49, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 28, 1882
Weekly newspaper from Comanche, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 28, 1882
Creator:
Hill, Joe W.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Daily Herald. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 292, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 28, 1882
Daily newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 28, 1882
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History