Clothes Pin (open access)

Clothes Pin

Patent for a clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date: April 6, 1909
Creator: Everett, Edgar B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-419 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-419

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the County Court of Cass County has jurisdiction of eminent domain matters.
Date: April 12, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-chopper. (open access)

Cotton-chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper. The text describes the construction of the machine and explains how it is different from current cotton choppers.
Date: April 22, 1913
Creator: Forrest, Bedford W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Providers of Telecommunications Services, April 2012 (open access)

Providers of Telecommunications Services, April 2012

This document provides information on the jurisdictions that have imposed local sales tax on telecommunication services.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Portable Fences. (open access)

Improvement in Portable Fences.

Patent for portable fencing with sections that can be connected and set up in a particular area, or removed and put elsewhere at will.
Date: April 21, 1874
Creator: Griffin, James Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traction-Wheel and Means for Driving Same. (open access)

Traction-Wheel and Means for Driving Same.

Patent for "a new and Improved Traction-Wheel and Means for Driving Same" (lines 5-7) , including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 15, 1913
Creator: Graley, Morton Adrian
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Planter. (open access)

Cotton Seed Planter.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-seed planter. This design "consists in the combination of a front pair of scraping-wings attached to a central furrow-opener, a revolving biconical wheel for pressing open the furrow and operating a toothed or spiked seed stirring and distributing shaft, and a rear covering-roller having a concave periphery" (lines 18-24).
Date: April 5, 1881
Creator: Crow, John Alexander
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History