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The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 318, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 16, 1918 (open access)

The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 318, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 16, 1918

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 16, 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 195, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 16, 1918 (open access)

The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 195, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 16, 1918

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 16, 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 103, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 16, 1918 (open access)

The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 103, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 16, 1918

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: July 16, 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 73, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 16, 1918 (open access)

The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 73, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 16, 1918

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 16, 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 226, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 16, 1918 (open access)

The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 226, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 16, 1918

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 16, 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1918 (open access)

The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1918

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 16, 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 287, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 16, 1918 (open access)

The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 287, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 16, 1918

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 16, 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 256, Ed. 1 Monday, December 16, 1918 (open access)

The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 256, Ed. 1 Monday, December 16, 1918

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 16, 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 134, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1918 (open access)

The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 134, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1918

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 16, 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 16, 1918 (open access)

The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 16, 1918

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 16, 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 346, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 16, 1918 (open access)

The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 346, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 16, 1918

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 16, 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 165, Ed. 1 Monday, September 16, 1918 (open access)

The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 165, Ed. 1 Monday, September 16, 1918

Daily newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 16, 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 16, 1918 (open access)

The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 16, 1918

Bi-weekly student newspaper from the Rice Institute in Houston, Texas that includes campus news and commentaries along with advertising.
Date: February 16, 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Centrifugal Brake Mechanism (open access)

Centrifugal Brake Mechanism

Patent for a centrifugal break mechanism, primarily designed as an automatic brake device for elevators travelling at an abnormal speed.
Date: April 16, 1918
Creator: Cobb, Albert C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Field service postcard]

A pre-printed field service postcard. The postcard has explicit instructions on how to fill out, saying the postcard will be destroyed if extra information is added, and to include only a date and signature. The handwriting at the bottom of the postcard is signed by John H. Carper and dated August 16, 1918. Carper has crossed out generated sentences, stating he is quite well and has received someone's letter dated July 18, 1918. On the back of the postcard, the addressee is Mrs. John H. Carper at 818 Austin St., Houston, Texas.
Date: August 16, 1918
Creator: Carper, John H.
Object Type: Postcard
System: The UNT Digital Library
Machine-Gun. (open access)

Machine-Gun.

Patent for a machine gun, meant to have relatively few parts, that includes a belt to carry a large amount of cartridges. The machine gun "provides a structure wherein the cartridges are positively and consecutively fed to the explosion chamber" (lines 11-14).
Date: July 16, 1918
Creator: McManus, Luis M. & Warner, James Harold
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Protecting-Casing for Electrical Conductors (open access)

Protecting-Casing for Electrical Conductors

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Protecting-Cases for Electrical Conductors" (lines 5-7). The object of the invention is to provide a device... for surrounding the commutator of an internal combustion motor and protecting the terminals thereof and the electrical conductors connected to said terminals" (lines 12-17).
Date: July 16, 1918
Creator: Rooke, Henry L., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump Mechanism (open access)

Pump Mechanism

Patent for improvements in well pumps involving protecting and lubricating parts during use.
Date: July 16, 1918
Creator: Layne, Mahlon E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shadowgraph. (open access)

Shadowgraph.

Patent for "improvements in shadowgraphs" (lines 12-13) "to afford entertainment and amusement" (lines 22-23) by means of using "a holder for pieces of which a design may be composed" (lines 31-32), including one illustration.
Date: April 16, 1918
Creator: Barler, Eugene Miles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History