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[News Clip: Fathers Day gifts]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: unknown
Duration: 2 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter with Cutouts, October 19, 1951]

Description: Letter describing the scotch the writer had to celebrate a Captain Smith's birthday and sending well wishes and a "shaker of scotch" to the recipient. Various cutout images and jokes are adhered to the page, including an image of a cocktail shaker.
Date: October 19, 1951
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[U.S. Air Force Pilots Complaints and Solutions]

Description: List of supposed airplane complaints from Air Force Pilots and comical responses from maintenance teams. The page has the name and address of Codye Gwen Linder is in the top right along with the WASP Fifinella logo. "Women Airforce Service Pilots WWII" is typed at the top of the page.
Date: unknown
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[News Script: Polar bear idiots]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Polar Bear Division of the Yacht Club of Fort Worth, whose 15 members have pledged to spend at least 3 minutes each month water-skiing - or forfeit $26; The reporter makes it clear how he feels about the whole thing, and how crazy the members are for pledging to what he calls a "suicide pact" to go water-skiing at Eagle Mountain Lake in 35 degree weather.
Date: December 10, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Funny ties]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 6, 1952
Duration: 45 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News briefs one]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering three news stories. The first story is about a Missouri woman, Evalene Dampier, who arrives in Fort Worth for a visit after winning an essay contest about lying Texans. The second story is about a visit to Fort Worth by film actress Arlene Whelan, promoting the release of her new film, "Passage West." The third story is about units of the Fort Worth National Guard leaving for summer training in Camp Polk, Louisiana.
Date: June 6, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Slingshot John Milligan calming down Waitress Covered in Egg]

Description: Photograph of Slingshot John Milligan calms down the waitress covered in egg after shooting through it with his slingshot. In the image that woman, holding a skillet is making a face from being covered in egg matter and shells, one shell has landed on her head. Narration by Junebug Clark: After letting John scramble three dozen eggs of of the back of his hand, Joe decided to do the shot he had pictured. Inspired by the Greek Coney Islands in Detroit that attracted crowds by cooking breakfast in… more
Date: January 17, 1961
Creator: Clark, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

The Old Flag (Tyler, Tex.), Volume 1, Number 3, March 15th, 1864

Description: Newspaper manuscript first published by Captain William H. May and Union soldiers while imprisoned at Camp Ford, in Tyler, Smith County, Texas. The paper was published for the purpose of "enlivening the monotonous, at times almost unbearably eventless life of Camp Ford" (J. P. Robbins, Preface to The Old Flag). Included is a work of fiction by D. K. Meigh entitled "High-Bird, or, The League of Blood! A Tale of the Mysteries and Miseries of Ford City, Texas," an obituary, and other various news… more
Date: March 15, 1864
Creator: May, William H.
Partner: Pearce Museum at Navarro College
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