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Clothes-Pounder.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive clothes pounder that has a conical casing, interior concentric partition, and equal draft and suction. The casing is divided into two compartments, but the divider has openings for air and suds.
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Ware, William P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ventilator and Mirror-Protector.

Description: Patent for improvements in ventilators and mirror-protectors is to “arranging pendent streamers and a rotatable fan near a mirror that the means for actuating the fan will serve to agitate the streamers for the chasing of flies from the mirror and also ventilate and cool a room by the current of wind produced by the fan.” (Lines 9-15) Illustration is included.
Date: July 8, 1902
Creator: McBride, William C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Heating Device

Description: Patent for a heating device. This invention is for using the heat from the device to pass through to an oven for the purposes of cooking. Illustrations included.
Date: July 14, 1903
Creator: Henderson, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Swing.

Description: Patent for a swing, particularly for children, that provides a foot rest that rises from the floor when a person sits down and includes a back that can be reclined. The particular design is also cheaper and easier to build.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Shaw, John Copeland Miller
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[News Clip: Grapevine lake holds boat races]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a series of motorboat races held at Grapevine Lake. The script goes on to describe a water skiing show and beauty contest at Whitney Lake near Hillsboro.
Date: July 12, 1953
Duration: 3 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Grapevine lake holds boat races]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a series of motorboat races held at Grapevine Lake. The script goes on to describe a water skiing show and beauty contest at Whitney Lake near Hillsboro.
Date: July 12, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Traffic deaths]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Dallas police questioning a motorist in connection to the traffic death of a child and van rear-ending a dump truck where the occupants of the van were killed.
Date: July 5, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Rape slaying]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about central Texas lawmen who are investigating the rape slaying of a teenaged clerk at a store South of Hillsboro.
Date: July 24, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Rape slying]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about 17 year old Linda Ruth Pibil of Abbot who was robbed, raped and shot to death.
Date: July 24, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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