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Arc-Lamp Attachment
Patent for improving arc lamp attachments. The attachment allows an arc lamp to be able to use an incandescent lamp in place of the electrodes in an arc lamp. The attachment increases the efficiency and durability of the arc lamp.
Date:
April 2, 1918
Creator:
Pratt, James R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Butter-Mold
Patent for "a butter mold embodying means for cutting and shaping a piece of wrapping paper to conform to the configuration of the mold in which it is adapted to be placed to receive the butter." (lines 9-13).
Date:
February 19, 1918
Creator:
Higginbotham, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Collinsville Times. (Collinsville, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, July 19, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Collinsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 19, 1918
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Collinsville Times. (Collinsville, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, July 26, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Collinsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 26, 1918
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Collinsville Times. (Collinsville, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, August 2, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Collinsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 2, 1918
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Collinsville Times. (Collinsville, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Collinsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 9, 1918
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning and Extracting Machine.
Patent for an apparatus that improved the cleaning process for machine-processed boll cotton. The invention made it possible to extract more lint cotton from closed bolls which were typically unharvestable by traditional machine-based cotton gins. The machine also improved success in late fall or winter cotton harvesting by allowing bolls containing hard-to-reach cotton to be processed.
Date:
September 4, 1918
Creator:
Blackmon, Enoch J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coupling.
Patent for a coupling invention that consists of a detachable key member and locking key member for a valve plug. It is meant to improve couplings for detachable handles of drain-cocks.
Date:
December 3, 1918
Creator:
Copeland, Joe S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Car Door.
Patent for Grain-Car Door. "The object the present invention is to arrange the door for use in transporting grain without requiring any additional grain door or planking on the inside door opening." (Line 3)
Date:
April 23, 1918
Creator:
Hartough, Edward W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grease-Gun
Patent for an applicator of grease to targeted areas with improved method for refilling, including illustration.
Date:
November 26, 1918
Creator:
Miller, Charles R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heel-Attaching Means.
Patent for a new means of using screws and plates to securely attach wooden heels to women's shoes, including illustrations.
Date:
May 14, 1918
Creator:
Dickerson, Harry P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hopper-Door.
Patent for a hopper door especially designed to be used "with a vertically movable weighing hopper adapted to receive and weigh cotton seed" (lines 10-12). The specifics of how the door is hinged and operates is especially important to the design.
Date:
July 16, 1918
Creator:
Peck, James F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hot Box Cooler dated November 12, 1918
Patent for the implementation of improvements to hot box coolers. This will assist in the cooling of hot bearings in railway cars.
Date:
November 12, 1918
Creator:
Edward W. Hartough
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from James Baily Dickey to Katie Harshbarger, July 21, 1918]
Letter to Katie Harshbarger from James Dickey from Camp Cody in New Mexico. Dickey describes how he is lonesome and will soon be shipped off to France for the Great War.
Date:
July 21, 1918
Creator:
Dickey, James Baily
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from James Baily Dickey to Katie Harshbarger, July 21, 1918]
Letter to Katie Harshbarger from James Dickey from Camp Cody in New Mexico. Dickey says he misses girls from Sadler, Texas, that he hasn't seen any other boys sent to the Camp from Sadler, and that he apologizes for his poor writing.
Date:
July 21, 1918
Creator:
Dickey, James Baily
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letters of Rev. Dr. Thomas McHutchin Cunningham]
The Rev. Dr. Thomas McHutchin Cunningham (March 22, 1887 - March 3, 1979) wrote these letters to family members from April 14, 1918 to November 28, 1927. The letters detail his life as a minister in Texas and other locations. The letters are written from Stamford, Spur, Eliasville, Sherman, Gainesville, Orange, Boston (Mass.), Richmond (Va.), and Knoxville (Tn.). The letters detail church news, family life, and travel on the S.S. Leviaton in 1927 to visit London, Paris, and Jerusalem.
Date:
1918
Creator:
Cunningham, Thomas McHutchin
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Hanging Car-Doors and The Like
Patent for a mechanism for hanging car doors and similar objects. The tool reduces the amount of people needed to install a car door or similar object, providing a more efficient installation.
Date:
December 24, 1918
Creator:
Hartough, Edward W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
R. L. Polk & Co.'s Sherman City Directory, 1918
The directory for Sherman, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the directory contains "a complete alphabetical list of business firms and private citizens; a miscellaneous directory of city and county officials, churches, public and private schools, banks, asylums, hospitals, commercial bodies, secret societies, street and avenue guide, etc., etc., etc. Also a Complete Classified Business Directory (The Buyers' Guide) and Numerical Street Directory." Indexes to content and advertisers are on the pages following page 6.
Date:
1918
Creator:
R.L. Polk & Co.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Tom Bean Times (Tom Bean, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, July 19, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Tom Bean, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 19, 1918
Creator:
Curtis, C. T.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Tom Bean Times (Tom Bean, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, July 26, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Tom Bean, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 26, 1918
Creator:
Curtis, C. T.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vulcanizing Apparatus
Patent for an apparatus used during the process of retreading tires that updates the manufacture of rubber tire patches.
Date:
July 12, 1918
Creator:
Rasor, James, E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. [37], No. [29], Ed. 1 Friday, January 4, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Whitewright, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 4, 1918
Creator:
Waggoner, J. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, January 11, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Whitewright, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 11, 1918
Creator:
Waggoner, J. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, January 18, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Whitewright, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 18, 1918
Creator:
Waggoner, J. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History