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Mail Bag Fastening.
Patent for a new and improved mail-bag fastener. This design "is to provide a fastening for mail-bags, which may be quickly manipulated to fasten or unfasten the bag. To this end the invention consists, essentially, of a slide formed with key-hole slots and carried by an overlapping flap, the said slide being adapted to engaged headed studs that are secured to one side of the main portion of the pouch and passed through apertures formed in the other side of the pouch" (lines 7-16).
Motor.
Patent for a new and improved motor. This design "has for its object to provide a motor of the class . . . that shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, cheapness, durability, and general efficiency; and to these ends [the] invention consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts" (lines 17-23).
Stock Collar.
Patent for a new and improved stock-collar. This design is "for the purpose of positively and unmistakably identifying cattle and other like stock, and to obviate the necessity of marking and branding cattle, &c., which shall be light, simple, strong, and durable in construction, thoroughly effective for the purposes designed, easily attached to and removed from the necks of cattle, &c., which shall be cheap and inexpensive of manufacture, and not liable to become lost, misplaced, broken, or detached by the animal in its efforts to release itself" (lines 16-26).
Oil Press Mat.
Patent for a new and improved oil press mat. This design "is to flexibly connect the metal plates or leaves of a three-leaved oil-press mat in such manner that when the mat with the bags of meal interposed between its leaves is subjected to pressure for the purpose of expressing the oil the parallelism of the leaves will be maintained and endwise shifting of the same prevented. A further object is to provide a fastening . . . which shall be stronger, more durable, and more positive in its functions" (lines 31-41).
The Hempstead Ledger (Hempstead, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1885
Weekly newspaper from Hempstead, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
The Hempstead Ledger (Hempstead, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, April 23, 1886
Weekly newspaper from Hempstead, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
The Hempstead Ledger (Hempstead, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 1886
Weekly newspaper from Hempstead, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
The Hempstead Ledger (Hempstead, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1886
Weekly newspaper from Hempstead, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
The Daily Ledger. (Hempstead, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 20, 1886
Daily newspaper from Hempstead, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
The Daily Ledger. (Hempstead, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Monday, February 22, 1886
Daily newspaper from Hempstead, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
The Daily Ledger. (Hempstead, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 24, 1886
Daily newspaper from Hempstead, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
The Daily Ledger. (Hempstead, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 1886
Daily newspaper from Hempstead, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
The Tri-Weekly Ledger. (Hempstead, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 27, 1886
Tri-weekly newspaper from Hempstead, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Hempstead 1885 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hempstead in Waller County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Hempstead 1885 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Hempstead in Waller County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
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