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The Snow Man

Description: Short story set in Colorado in the winter. "Editorial note.--Before the recent fatal illness of William Sydney Porter...this American master of short-story writing had begun for Hampton's Magazine the story printed below...When he realized that he could do no more...O. Henry told in detail the remainder of "The Snow Man" to Harris Merton Lyon..."
Date: August 1910
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Item Type: Refine your search to only Prose fiction
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Safety Car Net

Description: Patent for safety car-net to be attached to train freight-cars closing the space between adjacent cars and protecting train workers from falling.
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Matthews, Harrison C.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process for Making Cattle Food

Description: Patent for providing "a process whereby cattle food may be economically produced from sotol which, when combined with certain other food products, will produce an equivalent to alfalfa and which can be produced at a cost far below that required to provide a feed of the same amount of alfalfa &c., &c." lines 17-23
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Thatcher, Frank
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
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Cranking Device

Description: Patent for cranking device to start internal combustion engines and designed specifically for automobiles.
Date: June 24, 1919
Creator: Harris, Irvin F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Fort Sam Houston Bulletin 124]

Description: Bulletin reprinting War Department special regulations 28, change 3, which outlines footcare regulations for soldiers, as well as letters from the US Army Adjutant General's office regarding a change to form 1010 "P.M.G.O.," a change to general orders number 82 section IV, and a reminder about regulation of Red Cross sweaters.
Date: September 30, 1918
Creator: United States. War Department.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Account-Book.

Description: Patent for improvements in account books to "facilitate the identification of pass books and to expedite the keeping of accounts by enabling the cashier, or bookkeeper, or other clerk concerned, to readily identify the book of the depositor or other owner and thereby more readily post the entries from one book to another in keeping accounts" (lines 16-22); includes illustration.
Date: August 28, 1917
Creator: Exline, Marcus, P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Picker's Knee-Pad.

Description: Patent for Cotton-Picker's Knee-Pad. "This invention relates to pads and particularly to a new, useful, simple and practical knee pad especially designed fo use by cotton pickers." (line 2)
Date: April 30, 1918
Creator: Boynton, Willie A. & Terrell, George A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Valve-Grinding Device

Description: Patent for a device that can simultaneously grind "several valves of a multi-cylinder engine or motor" (lines 11-12). This device allows the "ready interchangeability, repair and adjustment of the working parts" (lines 16-17).
Date: February 4, 1919
Creator: Lohec, Joseph C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Writing-Desk and File-Cabinet.

Description: Patent for a writing desk with combined filing cabinet designed for routine clerical and writing tasks. The desk has the added benefit of maximizing file space in both the front and back of the desk while permitting the user to remain seated in order to access files.
Date: February 16, 1915
Creator: Cooper, Samuel W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Fort Sam Houston Bulletin 126]

Description: Bulletin reprinting changes to Army Regulations, paragraph 1165, which addresses discharge, as well as letters from the US Army Adjutant General's Office regarding: carrying ammunition on troop transports; naming an artillery battery at Fort Crockett after soldier Leonard Hoskins; application to Central Officers' Training Schools; and enlisted men sent to officers' schools.
Date: October 2, 1918
Creator: United States. War Department.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Bridle-Bit.

Description: Patent for a bridle bit that holds and manages vicious horses and that can be adjusted to also fit a calf or colt.
Date: December 19, 1911
Creator: Smith, John T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Road-Grader

Description: Patent for an improvement or update to a device called a road-grader. This patented upgrade will make the use of a road-grader easier.
Date: January 18, 1916
Creator: Harris, Elie B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sheet-Metal Tank

Description: Patent for a sheet metal tank supported by outside beams made of metal studs or sheets. The design also provides means by which the tank can be sheathed and secured by concrete.
Date: October 19, 1915
Creator: Harry, Owen K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Disinfectant Telephone-Mouthpiece

Description: Patent for a mouthpiece for transmitters that contains a disinfectant used to prevent the spread of bacteria that has been exhaled into the mouthpiece. Illustrations included.
Date: January 18, 1910
Creator: Dixon, Joseph W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Flash-Lamp

Description: Patent for a flash lamp for taking photographs. Illustrations included.
Date: October 22, 1912
Creator: Harrington, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe-Tongs.

Description: Patent for improvement upon the use of chain tongs. The invention "permits the application of a very strong rotative force" (lines 11-12), "produce rotation of a pipe in either direction" (lines 17-18), and "provides a chain tong which will not crush the pipe..." (lines 22-23).
Date: May 12, 1914
Creator: McLeod, Rueben A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
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