Texas Patents: List of Weekly Grants by Texas Inventors
Reported by C. A. Snow & Co. patentees include Charles B Barclay Rockland level finder Chauncey R Benefield Dallas seed cotton elevating device Edward N Gilbert Canadian caisson Charles McGinnis El Paso door check Frank P Pfleger El Paso indicator Eugene Rosenbaum Dallas cultivator Albert Fridwell Celina cotton handling apparatus James Printz Sour Jake petroleum oil treatment. Send ten cents for copies with paper date to Snow & Co Washington D C.
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Texas
C. A. Snow & Co
Washington, D. C
Charles B Barclay
Rockland
Chauncey R Benefield
Dallas
Edward N. Gilbert
Caisson
Charles McGinnis
el Paso
Frank P Pfleger
Eugene Rosenbaum
Albert Fridwell
Celina
James Printz
Jake
Washington, Dp
Announcement Fees and Rates for Local Notices
The notice lists fixed prices for political and public ads including Congress 10, District offices 10, County offices 5, Public Weigher 5, County Commissioner 30, Justice of the Peace 8,000, and Constable 6,800. It notes legal restrictions prevent free notices and require payment with the ad and states ads must be written by someone other than the editor. It also includes various filler advertisements and endorsements for remedies and rail topics from unrelated items.
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Tue Jimp Secute
Congress
Justice of the Peace
The hens of the United States produce enough eggs annually
The article notes that egg production by U S hens is sufficient to purchase all the dairy cows, highlighting the poultry sector's economic impact.
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United States
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Claims Broad Cures
A brief item notes Chamberlains Cough Remedy is advertised to cure colds croup and whooping cough. The second line states on December 1 1877 state convicts were in the hands of the penitentiary commissioners.
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Chamberlain
Penitentiary Commissioners
New Year Greetings From Lippincott's Magazine
The editor predicts land ownership by farmers will solve labor problems and improve the South through united effort. Lippincott's Magazine sends New Year wishes and previews the January issue with Marie Van Vorst's new novelette The Master of Craven and six short stories.
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Southern Farm Magazine
South
Brenham
Lippincott’s
Marie van Vort
Master of Craven
van Vorst
Lippicott’s January issue highlights three menu papers
Lippicott’s for January lists three papers of special interest: Benjamin Franklin's Trials as a Benefactor by Emma Reppl ier, Is a Surplus More of a Menace than a Surity by the financier pseudonym "W.1.," and Memories of Some Generals of the Civil War by Wimer Bedford. The latter concludes reminiscences begun in December.
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Lippicott
Benjamin Franklin
Emma Repplier
W.1
Wimer Bedford
Girdling the Globe With a Global Happy New Year
The Washington Star describes a nationwide time signal from a Georgetown height origin, past the observatory led by Admiral Chester, to ring in the year 1006. The electric greeting travels via cables to San Francisco Honolulu Manila Hongkong and beyond, reaching Europe Africa and the Americas in a single instant.
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Uncle Sam
Georgetown Heights
Admiral Chester
National Observatory
Our
Republic
St. Petersburg
Europe
London
Africa
Alexandria
Nile
Madagascar
Mauritius
Lisbon
Madeiras
Cape Verde Islands
Pernambuco
Brazil
Argentina
Bolivia
Windward Isles
Lesser Antilles
West Indies
Washington Star
New Year’s on the Nile in Ancient Egypt
The article describes Egypt’s New Year, the night of the drop, occurring mid June when Isis’s tear supposedly raises the Nile. Priests and people watch the river, light sacred fires, and households ignite fires with altar coal. People wash old garments, adorn themselves in white, anoint with oil, crown with flowers, bear palms, and celebrate with chants and feasts.
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Egypt
Isis
Invocation to the New Year in a World column
A humorous or satirical poem from a New York World page mocks religious rites and urban wealth. It jests about money, marriage, and social mores with playful imagery such as angel cake and banana skins while hinting at fashionable excess and domestic life.
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R. KK
Nuuitteegtk
New York World
Peter Stuyvesant New Year Customs in New Amsterdam
The New Year celebration under Peter Stuyvesant featured extensive Dutch customs in New Amsterdam. Women were greeted with kisses as part of the day’s merriment, contrasting with Puritan restraint and the era’s strict religious attitudes.
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Peter Stuyvesant
Zieme
New Amsterdam
Christendom
Stuld Purixagy
Janus
New York Evening Post
New Year's In Cacani's Time And Janus Festivals
The article notes Roman New Year customs at Janus festivals on the calends of January with gifts greetings feasting dancing masking and mumming. It explains January’s name from Janus the two faced god looking to past and future.
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Cacani
Janus
Lampasas Poultry and Egg Business Growing
Lampasas poultry and egg business amounts to about 100 000 a year and is growing.
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Lampasas
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