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Harvesting Sack Supporter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved harvesting-sack supporter. This design "relates to improvements in supporting devices for harvesting-sacks, being especially adapted for use in corn-pulling, and by cotton-pickers, and its objects are to provide means whereby the sack may be so attached to the picker that its weight will be distributed proportionately over the body of the wearer, and will not strain and tire the back of the person bearing the same" (lines 16-24).
Date: March 2, 1886
Creator: Poteet, James Elias
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Sweep Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and improved sweep-plow. This design is "to provide a sweep-plow especially adapted for the cultivation of cotton and to so construct the same that the blades or wings thereof may be adjusted for the purpose of plowing between rows of various widths" (lines 8-13). It consists, "with the sweep curved in cross-section to form the central shovel-receiving seat, which is slotted opposite the rearwardly-disposed triangular sides or flanges, which latter are perforated near their low… more
Date: May 24, 1892
Creator: Miller, Amanuel M.
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Four-Wheel Drive

Description: Patent for a four-wheel drive with a combined central driving unit and differential that simplifies construction and improves efficiency in operation.
Date: January 25, 1921
Creator: Littlejohn, Lonzo B.
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Fish-Line Bob

Description: Patent for a fish bob that can clamp and grip the fishing line. The fish bob can also be moved at will to any position with the users thumb or fingers.
Date: December 29, 1914
Creator: Bissett, Caleb
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Spring-Wheel

Description: Patent for a spring wheel designed with a rim that supports the hub so that the wheel can rotate smoothly and quietly. Illustrations included.
Date: November 19, 1912
Creator: Barnes, George F. & Suttle, Willis A.
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Slicing Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved slicer. This design "consists, essentially, in the combination, with a suitable frame and slotted clamping or holding plates, which are adjustable with relation to each other in order to accommodate articles of varying thickness, of a revolving eccentric or cam shaped cutter having a spiral or volute edge and secured spirally upon a shaft which has its bearings of the frame of the machine, and which, when revolved through the medium of the said spirally-arranged cu… more
Date: April 5, 1887
Creator: Miller, Walker C.
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Portable Dairy.

Description: Patent for a portable dairy that consists of a frame with legs, a pan at the top of the frame, a tube that goes from the bottom of the pan and through the middle of the frame, a perforated bottom for the dairy, a cloth that surrounds the dairy while still allowing for air circulation, and the cloth goes into the pan.
Date: May 1, 1894
Creator: McIlveen, James H.
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Plow

Description: Patent for plow improvements, including a "novelly adjusted stock" and "adjustable colter knife," with illustration (lines 10-15).
Date: February 16, 1915
Creator: Hankins, Elias
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Game Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a new and improved game. This design "relates to that class of game apparatus in which tilting levers or arms located at the end of an alley or board and bearing numerals designating their value in the game are designed to be struck by balls, so as to displace or change the position of said levers. The invention consists in the construction and combination of the parts forming the apparatus" (lines 14-22).
Date: April 19, 1881
Creator: Pittman, William D.
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Gas Producer

Description: Patent for a new invention of a "reverse draft gas producer in which a clean and pure dry gas can be obtained from lignite or low grade fuel, and especially adapted for use in connection with explosive engines" (lines 11-14).
Date: May 26, 1914
Creator: Guggolz, John F.
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Fence.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fence. This design calls for two spring-bars to be driven into the ground alongside two crossbars and laced between the latter. This lacing of spring-bars allows for "much additional bracing strength" for the crossbars and enables barbed wire to be stretched along where the spring-bars intersect (line 33).
Date: April 11, 1882
Creator: Daviss, Horatio P.
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Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design has for its object "to render the points or shovels laterally adjustable with relation to each other and the plow-beam and to render the side rows of points or shovels reversible in position on the plow-beam" (lines 19-23).
Date: March 29, 1887
Creator: Kirven, Peter E.
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Cotton Sweep.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton-sweep. This design "has for its object to provide a sweep which can be used either as a solid sweep or with one wing solid and the other cut away; to so construct the cut-away wing that it can be run very close to the plants without injuring them or throwing too much dirt or earth thereon to cover them, and to provide a sweep which shall be cheap, strong, durable, and effective" (lines 27-35).
Date: January 19, 1886
Creator: Awalt, Jesse C.
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Boot or Shoe Brace.

Description: Patent for a new and improved brace for shoes and boots. This design "relates to a brace adapted to be applied to boots and shoes, and is designed as a brace for the counter, heel, and instep; and it has for its object to provide a brace . . . which shall be simple in its construction, one that may be readily and easily applied, and manufactured and supplied at a slight cost" (lines 9-16).
Date: May 5, 1885
Creator: Awalt, Jessee C.
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Attachment to Cotton Gins.

Description: Patent for a new and improved attachment for cotton gins. This design "consists of a lever-frame journaled to the gin-frame and carrying a shaft provided with a friction-pulley which may, by will of the operator, be thrown in contact with the driving-pulley of the gin, thus rotating the shaft, which is provided with a set of cleaning-blades fitting between the gin-saws between which they are, by the said mechanism, made to revolve rapidly, thus cleaning the said saws" (lines 18-27).
Date: April 26, 1881
Creator: Steward, Francis Marion
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Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6666

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Under the provisions of Senate Bill No. 123, Regular Session, 49th Leg., can the Commissioners' Court of Freestone County increase a part of the officials' salaries and leave some as they are under the old salary law?
Date: June 25, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
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Soil Survey of Freestone County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Freestone County, Texas.
Date: 2002
Creator: Janak, Edward F., Jr. & Griffin, Edward L.
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General Soil Map, Freestone County, Texas

Description: Map displays soil types along with creeks, towns, schools, churches, power transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols. Scale 1:316,800
Date: 2002
Creator: United States. Soil Conservation Service.
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