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Agricultural Implement (open access)

Agricultural Implement

Patent for a novel and improved implement of this general character including a plurality of supporting members provided with ground working elements together with a body positioned upon said supporting members and wherein said said supporting members and body are capable of relative movement transversely of the direction of travel of the implement.
Date: August 7, 1917
Creator: Harris, Joseph A. & Howard, Arthur W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Change-Speed Gearing (open access)

Change-Speed Gearing

Patent for "power transmission for automobiles... provides a driving shaft and a driven shaft arranged in alignment, and a countershaft which parallels the driving and driven shafts and carries a set of gears that continuously mesh."
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Relle, William A. So
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a novel churn "whereby the dasher or agitator carried by staff or stem within the churn body will be simultaneously rotated and reciprocated...and the reciprocation will effectively agitate the contents of the churn for churning the same" (lines 14-21), with illustrations.
Date: February 16, 1915
Creator: Logan, William L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[City of Clarendon Ledger: Minutes for September 10, 1901- April 19, 1917] (open access)

[City of Clarendon Ledger: Minutes for September 10, 1901- April 19, 1917]

This ledger includes text of minutes from City Commission meetings and motions passed by the Commission of the City of Clarendon.
Date: 1917~
Creator: Clarendon (Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[City of Clarendon Ledger: Ordinances 1-20] (open access)

[City of Clarendon Ledger: Ordinances 1-20]

This ledger includes the documentation filed in the Office of the County Court for Donley County which covers the incorporation of the Town of Clarendon as well as the text of ordinances proposed and approved by the City of Clarendon. This version starts with an index and handwritten ordinances, but later ones are printed and attached to the ledger pages.
Date: 1915~
Creator: Clarendon (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clock-Actuated Display Apparatus. (open access)

Clock-Actuated Display Apparatus.

Patent for a clock actuated display apparatus comprising a casing, a spring-pressed rotatable reel, and display tape adapted to wind which will cause the drum to rotate.
Date: November 20, 1917
Creator: Shure, Ralph Deane
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Scrubber and Mop (open access)

Combined Scrubber and Mop

Patent for a combined mop and scrubber. The invention consists of a brush, mop, wringer, and water receptacle.
Date: July 1, 1913
Creator: Shaw, Horace G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner

Patent for a crude oil burner for stoves or heaters. Illustrations included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Risley, Carolile
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disk Cultivator (open access)

Disk Cultivator

Patent for improvements to a disk cultivators which allows for the disks to hit the ground at various angles, thus improving cultivation,
Date: May 12, 1914
Creator: Atkinson, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disk Cultivator (open access)

Disk Cultivator

Patent for an improvement on disk cultivators. This makes it easier to arrange the wheels on the disk cultivators to be able to work on the soil on land of different shapes and sizes.
Date: December 30, 1914
Creator: Craddock, John E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hog-Yoke. (open access)

Hog-Yoke.

Patent for a hog yoke, which prevents hogs from crawling under fences and rooting up their pen.
Date: November 8, 1910
Creator: McCarroll, William R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Irene Biffle Williams, reading in her dorm room]

Photograph of Irene Biffle sitting in a chair, reading in her dorm room at Clarendon College. The room is sparsely decorated, with a bed and a vanity dresser. Two college pennants hang on the wall.
Date: [1910..]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), Jr.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Journal of the Northwest Texas Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South: 1915 (open access)

Journal of the Northwest Texas Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South: 1915

Journal of the North Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, including the proceedings of the annual conference, committee reports, updates to conference leadership and contact information, and other related information. Index starts on page 95.
Date: 1914/1915
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South. North Texas Conference.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Northwest Texas Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South: 1920 (open access)

Journal of the Northwest Texas Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South: 1920

Journal of the North Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, including the proceedings of the annual conference, committee reports, updates to conference leadership and contact information, and other related information. Index starts on page 84.
Date: 1919/1920
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South. North Texas Conference.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Male students of Clarendon College, 1911]

Composite photo of male students at Clarendon College in Clarendon, Texas. Each student has an oval-shaped portrait, labeled with his last name; they are organized around an illustration of a pennant that says "Adkissonian '11" an has an eagle carrying a striped flag.
Date: 1911
Creator: Mulkey, Homer
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mine-Sweeper and Ship-Shield (open access)

Mine-Sweeper and Ship-Shield

Patent for protecting a ship from mines with a net that serves as a "mine sweeper and ship shield" (lines 9-10). It is also for collecting underwater weapons and improving the net.
Date: October 15, 1918
Creator: Coin, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mirror-Supporting Device. (open access)

Mirror-Supporting Device.

Patent for a mirror supporting device for use in supporting mirrors from a window pane.
Date: August 23, 1910
Creator: McClelland, James B., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock. (open access)

Nut-Lock.

Patent for improvement in nuts-locks whereby a nut is coupled to a bolt by a washer with a pivoted tooth.
Date: September 18, 1917
Creator: Harris, Joseph A. & Howard, Arthur W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner (open access)

Oil-Burner

Patent for new improvements to oil-burners in stoves and furnaces providing "a proper inlet of air to fire generated on the hearth" (lines 14-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1912
Creator: Braly, Hugh L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Elizabeth Black McMillin]

Photograph of Elizabeth Black McMillin wearing a white or light-colored shawl collared blouse. "Elizabeth Black McMillin, Lizzie" is written on the back.
Date: 1910~/1913~
Creator: Mulkey
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Holder (open access)

Pipe-Holder

Patent for a pipe-holder that is designed "to provide a novel, conveniently operated, effective and compact pipeholder" (line 8-10).
Date: July 7, 1919
Creator: Heckman, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Puller (open access)

Pipe Puller

Patent for a pipe puller design to be used in wells.
Date: September 30, 1919
Creator: Heckman, J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Rod Coupling. (open access)

Pump-Rod Coupling.

Patent for "a pump rod coupling and more particularly to a coupling adapted to connect together pump rods made of wood or similar substance" (lines 8-11).
Date: July 22, 1913
Creator: Kemp, Thomas Stephen
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Clamp. (open access)

Safety-Clamp.

Patent for a safety clamp that secures wagon seats in place.
Date: February 7, 1911
Creator: Gammon, William Willey
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History