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Rod-Coupling Device.

Description: Patent for a rod-coupling device, "to provide a simple, convenient, and effective device for the pump plunger-rods of windmills and the like" (lines 12-15). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 12, 1897
Creator: Ponkney, August C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

M. J. Barlow & Co.

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative images, business name, and text reading: "Millinery, Hardware, Crockery"; "Cheapest Cash House"; "Groceries and Dry Goods."
Date: 1890
Partner: Texas General Land Office

O'Connor Brothers, Stock-Raisers

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes illustrated images and decorative text with business name and text reading: "Steer Cattle a Specialty" in lithographic print by Clarke & Courts Lith. Galveston. Letterhead contains names D. M. O'Connor; T. M. O'Connor.
Date: 1890
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Johnson & Wimbish, Dealers in General Merchandise

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes decorative designs, illustration of business, and business name with text reading: "Ranch Supplies a Specialty" in lithographic print by Maverick Lith. S. A. Tex. Letterhead contains the names R. Johnson; A. G. Wimbish.
Date: 1891
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Combination-Tool.

Description: Patent for "a simple and effective tool designed especially for wire-fence working and combining in a single implement a hatchet, nail-claw, staple-puller, wire kinker or twister, and wire-cutter." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 12, 1897
Creator: Ponkney, August C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Hatchet and Wire-Tightener.

Description: Patent for a device that operates as a hatchet and as a wire-twisting device, so that "slack may be taken up in fence-wires as fast as it occurs" (lines 11-12). The wire-tightener is two triangles stick out from the side of the hatchet, where the operator can pinch the wire.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Keck, Edgar A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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