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Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 276th week of the war, 158th week of U.S. participation
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: 600-mile water jump, Pacific war in the air, Nazis stage offensive, Budapest Under Siege, Eighth Takes Strongpoint. Maps: Mindoro -- Pacific war in the air -- Red Army -- Western action. Inset maps: Philippine Islands -- Budapest. Back: Map of South Burma and Thailand
Date:
December 25, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type:
Poster
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 34, Number 52, Pages 9265-9546, December 25, 2009
A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date:
December 25, 2009
Creator:
Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 23, Number 52, Pages 12967-13151, December 25, 1998
A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date:
December 25, 1998
Creator:
Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a "new and improved corn and cotton planter" (lines 3-4), to plant both cotton and corn seed,including instructions and illustrations. The configuration includes a new combination of parts.
Date:
December 25, 1877
Creator:
Domschke, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Air-Pressure Fluid-Vents.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in air-pressure automatic fluid vents for the use in the discharge of all liquids" (lines 3-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 25, 1877
Creator:
Park, Hardy B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blind Stop.
Patent for a new and improved blind-stop. This design consists "[i]n blind-stops, the rod, consisting of two parts connected by a thin piece of metal, in combination with a blind provided with a median open-slotted tapering screw and thumb-nut" (lines 49-53).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Warren, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Dropper
Patent for corn or cotton dropper in which improvements are made on general efficiency, "simplicity, expensiveness, [and] durability" (lines 12-13).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Brown, William Franklin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Engine and Superheater Apparatus.
Patent for a "combined steam superheater apparatus and engine driven thereby, which in turn is utilized to automatically shift the steam feeding and cut off devices, and such invention primarily has for its object to provide a combined mechanism of this character which will effectively operate for its intended purposes" (lines 7-14). It also requires a minimal amount of effort to operate, sifts solids out of the water, and retains heat.
Date:
December 25, 1894
Creator:
Walker, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Construction.
Patent for "a construction which will permit the speedy and easy removal of brake supporting blocks or equivalent parts from the lower or floor frame of a car and the substitution of others without displacement or injury of other parts of the car." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 25, 1894
Creator:
Coffin, Walter E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "a simple, safe, and practical coupling for cars, arranged to couple at one time as many cars as may be desired, and to operate automatically so as to avoid all necessity of going between the cars, and adapted to use the ordinary link and to couple with cars having a higher or lower draw bar than itself." (Lines 7-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 25, 1894
Creator:
Elliott, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breast-Strap for Harness.
Patent for "a breast-strap so constructed as to obviate pressure on the windpipe of the horse and to transfer such pressure to the shoulders; to obviate chafing or rubbing of the breast-strap upon the shoulders, and to permit them to move freely in advance of each other as a result of the movements of the horse." (Lines 12-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 25, 1894
Creator:
Russell, Charles H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Poison Distributor
Patent for "new and useful improvements in devices for sprinkling potato-vines and the like with powder - such as paris-green" (lines 15-18).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Heaton, Lorenzo D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer.
Patent for a new and improved pest control device. This design "consist[s] of the flexible air-supply funnel, having end-supporting and mouth-distending rim, terminating in vertical bottom legs or branches, the gas generator, the air-inlet tube having the valve, and the rigid gas-discharge tube" (lines 22-28).
Date:
December 25, 1883
Creator:
Grafton, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Logging-Truck.
Patent for a logging-truck that is a "simple and convenient apparatus which is operated by a team to raise the logs from the ground, and which thus obviates the necessity of using a hand windlass as is usually done" (lines 14-18). This is used in countries where it does not snow often.
Date:
December 25, 1894
Creator:
Brough, William, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive thill-coupling that "can be conveniently applied to any ordinary vehicle, which is arranged in such a way that rattling is positively prevented, and which, when the thills are dropped, permits them to be freely lifted from the coupling; also to a modified form of the device designed to prevent rattling only" (lines 12-18).
Date:
December 25, 1894
Creator:
Parker, Daniel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manufacture of artificial stone.
Patent for the manufacture of artificial stone using gravel, sand, water, cement, lamp-black, isinglass and sesquioxide of iron.
Date:
December 25, 1883
Creator:
Gallup, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sweat Leather for Riding Saddles.
Patent for a new and improved sweat-leather for saddles. This design "has for its object to construct sweat-leathers which shall be absolutely impervious to the sweat and moisture exuding from the animal, and thus serve to protect the rider's clothes. Sweat-pads, as ordinarily constructed of leather, are liable to be permeated with moisture, by which their efficiency as protectors is not only impaired, but they are liable to curl up . . . To avoid this . . . [the] improved sweat-pads [have] linings of India-rubber" (lines 20-31).
Date:
December 25, 1883
Creator:
Harriss, James Wilson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Latch.
Patent for an improved gate-latch for swinging gates that is especially simple, economic, and efficient.
Date:
December 25, 1894
Creator:
Wilson, James L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Kindler.
Patent for a new and improved fire-kindler. This design is for "[a] fire-kindling torch consisting of two perforated sections, each having an exterior longitudinal ridge, and angular side flanges, and provided at one end with lugs which bear flatly against each other, a pivot-pin passing transversely through the lugs to permanently connect the sections and form a pintle on which they can turn, and a handle connecting the other ends of the sections together, said sections having an interposed filling of mineral wool" (lines 1-11).
Date:
December 25, 1883
Creator:
Osborn, Adelbert E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate for Railway Tracks.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a shaft crossing a railway-track and provided with weighted depending ends, with rollers connected eccentrically to said ends, a gate connected to said shaft, and lever and bar apparatus for operating said weighted ends from the vicinity of the rails" (lines 41-47).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Jacobs, William Ramsey & Houston, Samuel Callahan
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter
Patent for a seed planter so that the distances between seeds can be changed from equidistant to a continuous row and vice versa and so that it can be adapted to sew both seeds and grains.
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Leamon, John B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Removable Can Top.
Patent for a new and improved removable lid for cans. This design "consists of a can top or protector to be fitted over the top of the can which has had one of its heads cut out in such a manner that the contents of the can can be easily and conveniently removed and, should it be desired, the life and usefulness of the can prolonged at a trifling expense" (lines 24-30).
Date:
December 25, 1883
Creator:
Grainger, Charles J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gas Compressing Pump for Ice Machines.
Patent for a new and improved pump for refrigerators. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the cylinder, having inlet at or near its lower end, a downward-closing valve at its upper end, an open-ended piston having internal ribs or projections, annular valve-seat around its upper open end, and a centrally-apertured bottom plate, of the valve having vertical movement within the piston and closing upwardly against the valve-seat, said valve being formed of the two sections . . . having hemispherical recesses and the lower section having an aperture, communicating therewith" (lines 30-42).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Farnsworth, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Abdominal Supporter.
Patent for a new and improved abdominal supporter. This design "consist[s] of the waist-belt, the abdominal sector-shaped pads hung from the waist-belt by elastic straps, the straps buttoned to the belt behind and to the bottom of the abdominal pads in front, the side straps connecting the abdominal pads with the pieces at the back, and the front strap connecting the two abdominal pads together with the shoulder-straps" (lines 70-79).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Gray, Harriet N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History