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Package-Tie.
Patent for a package tie for packages of mail, which holds securely and is easily undone by pulling from both ends.
Date:
August 18, 1908
Creator:
Sharpe, Edmund L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Poll Tax Receipt]
Poll tax receipt for $1.75 received from A.M. Avant on January 30, 1908 in Pleasanton, Texas.
Date:
January 30, 1908
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seeder
Patent for a seeder. This invention relates to seed dropping mechanisms for corn planters. Illustration included.
Date:
January 29, 1907
Creator:
Mouser, Robert H., Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter From R. Avant to A. M. Avant]
Letter from R. Avant to A. M. Avant. The letter concerns family business and real estate. It is written on Dillard & Avant letterhead and dated September 30, 1906.
Date:
September 30, 1906
Creator:
Avant, R.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seeder
Patent for an attachment or stand-alone seeding device which is "inexpensive...durable, and easy and effective in operation." (lines 16 & 17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 17, 1906
Creator:
Mouser, Robert H., Jr
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Annual Catalog of the Pleasanton High School Term of 1906 and 1907
Annual catalog of the Pleasanton High School for 1906 and 1907. It contains a description of Atascosa County, courses of study for grades one through ten, and features many local advertisements. The name Ben S. Avant is written in pencil on the front cover.
Date:
1906
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire-Alarm.
Patent for the automatic fire alarm system relates to a fusing wire that reacts to any heat or fire by closing circuit inside of the battery resulting in sounding off the alarm, and thus, improving the fire-alarm system structure.
Date:
March 15, 1904
Creator:
Fred, Mason K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter
Patent for a seed planter. This invention is designed to plant seed in hills at any desired predetermined distance apart.
Date:
October 6, 1903
Creator:
Coble, William H.; Coble, Robert L.; Johnson, Bennett & Johnson, N. J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter From John W. Harris to A. M. Avant]
Letter from John W. Harris to A. M. Avant, Esq., concerning rent for land in Atascosa County. The letter is dated April 24, 1903 and is written on Harris & Rogers Insurance letterhead.
Date:
April 24, 1903
Creator:
Harris, John W.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for improvement in cotton chopper and cultivator in “which the cultivator-blades may be readily adjusted to cultivator-blades may be readily adjusted to any desired distance from the row of plants that is being operated upon, and in which the number of chopping-hoes may be increased or diminished, so as to regulate the distance between the stands of cotton or the extent of each stand.” (Lines 13-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 24, 1903
Creator:
McAda, James Newton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sheriff's Posse in Atascosa County, Texas, 1903
Photograph of a Sheriff's posse in Atascosa County, Texas in 1903. The men stand with their rifles in hand, in front of the jail around their prisoner, the bandit "Gomez" who sits in a chair.
Date:
1903
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Miss Blanche Avant's Teaching Certificate]
Teaching Certificate belonging to Miss Blance Avant of Pleasanton, Texas. Signed the 25th day of June 1901.
Date:
June 21, 1901
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History