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Automatic Feed-Water Steam-Generator
Patent for a steam generator for hydrocarbon burners. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 4, 1913
Creator:
Mills, John H. T. & Mills, Virgil H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burial-Vault
Patent for an air and moisture proof burial vault which can also expel gases. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Pepple, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Lifting-Jacks
Patent for an attachment for lifting jacks.
Date:
March 28, 1911
Creator:
Porter, Horton B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Casting-Machine
Patent for a casting machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 11, 1911
Creator:
Mills, Virgil H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Hillsboro Dispatch (Hillsboro, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 252, Ed. 1 Monday, September 14, 1914
Daily newspaper from Hillsboro, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 14, 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Hillsboro Dispatch (Hillsboro, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 113, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 7, 1914
Daily newspaper from Hillsboro, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 7, 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Hillsboro Dispatch (Hillsboro, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 229, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 19, 1914
Daily newspaper from Hillsboro, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 19, 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Fifth Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Journal proceedings of Central Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, condensed minutes of the proceedings, reports of boards and committees, appointments, memoirs, statistical tables, and advertisements. Indexes to the journal and advertisements on page 109.
Date:
November 1914
Creator:
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[W. R. Robison's Funeral]
Photograph of the funeral of W. R. Robison at the Abbott Cemetery. A crowd stands around the grave marker of W. R. Robison (1859-1910), where a pile of freshly turned dirt can be seen. The crowd has cleared a pathway. A fence separates half of the crowd from the other.
Date:
1910
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Window-Shade
Patent for an adjustable window-shade that is more useful and can be "raised and lowered in its entirety" (lines 10-11) including instructions and illustration.
Date:
December 5, 1916
Creator:
Hayes, George Daniel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Guano Distributor
Patent for the distribution of guano for fertilization over a given area of territory.
Date:
July 19, 1912
Creator:
H. D. Pate
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lamp-Burner.
Patent for improved lamp burners, which reduces explosion risk, improves wick trimming, and maintains chimney positioning.
Date:
September 16, 1913
Creator:
Mills, Virgil H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hobble.
Patent for a new, simple hobble for cultivators made up of fewer parts to reduce cost and for east of use and adjustment. Illustration included.
Date:
October 30, 1917
Creator:
Ferguson, John R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvements in cotton choppers that are reliable, cost-effective, and move transversely through the rows of cotton "separately producing a vertical adjustment of each earth turning member." (lines 17-19), including illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1915
Creator:
Gant, Jesse B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collar-Support.
Patent for improvements to collar supports "...to provide a supporter which may be readily pinned to the collar and which is therefore easily detached therefrom when desired" (lines 11-14) including illustrations.
Date:
July 7, 1914
Creator:
Towler, Mary E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Window Shade and Curtain Hanger.
Patent for an adjustable window shade frame that can be mounted on an existing window to allow curtains or shades to be adjusted from the top or the bottom, and secured at any desired level for privacy and/or ventilation.
Date:
December 31, 1918
Creator:
Edens, Myrtle J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Itasca Item. (Itasca, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Itasca, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
May 15, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Itasca Item. (Itasca, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Itasca, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
May 22, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Itasca Item. (Itasca, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 29, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Itasca, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
May 29, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Itasca Item. (Itasca, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Itasca, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 12, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Itasca Item. (Itasca, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 26, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Itasca, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 26, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Itasca Item. (Itasca, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Itasca, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 3, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Itasca Item. (Itasca, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 19, 1914
Weekly newspaper from Itasca, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 19, 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Itasca Item. (Itasca, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 6, 1914
Weekly newspaper from Itasca, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 6, 1914
Creator:
Green, Joe T. & Green, Mrs. Joe T.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History