Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for an improvement to churns. "The purpose of the invention is to provide a novel churn structure embodying a pair of oppositely reciprocating dashers mounted in a common churn receptacle or body and operated from a single crank wheel" (lines 15-19).
Date: February 25, 1913
Creator: Burdeaux, Carey E. & Burdeaux, Charley W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Seed Planter and Cultivator. (open access)

Combined Seed Planter and Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved combined planter and cultivator. This design has for its object "to facilitate the planting of seed and the cultivating of plants, and to promote convenience in adjusting the machines for the different kinds of work. The invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts" (lines 21-27).
Date: November 25, 1884
Creator: Shannon, Thomas Brandon
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4769 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4769

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Matter of encumbering Item No. 134 of the current appropriation for the Texas Prison System with the purchase of two rugs to be installed in the General Manager's residence at Huntsville.
Date: August 25, 1942
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History