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[News Clip: Mayor/Lead]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 18, 1983, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Soil-Pulverizer.

Description: Patent for a soil-pulverizer with an efficient, revolving drum. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 18, 1914
Creator: Briles, James Monroe
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[News Clip: Water treatment]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 18, 1981, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Twin Cultivating-Harrow.

Description: Patent for a twin cultivating harrow with an especially designed coupling that connects the harrow frames. It is adjustable and is meant to cultivate corn, cotton, and similar crops.
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Waldrip, Thomas A.
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Machine for Picking Cotton.

Description: Patent for an improved machine for picking cotton that is designed for the purpose of picking cotton fiber from the plants of the row. The machine is adapted to pass along over the row to extract the fiber from the bolls of the plants. The machine's provision allows for discharging the hairy tuft of the cotton seeds into elevating chutes so that the cotton seed can be discharged into a suitable receptacle mounted upon the framework of the machine.
Date: May 18, 1920
Creator: Threadgill, Wilmer
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[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to I. H. Kempner, August 18, 1949, Page 2]

Description: Second page of a letter from Daniel W. Kempner to I. H. Kempner discussing cotton production. Daniel mentions the poor property maitenance that he witnessed on his trip, and emphasizes how the lack of property care is going to lead to costly repairs. Daniel also urges I. H. to consider investing in more mechanical means to do farm work and harvests.
Date: August 18, 1949
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
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Knee-Pad.

Description: Patent for a knee-pad used while picking cotton, berries, or gardening. It protects the knee from dampness, stones, roots, etc. The pad goes on the knee, and two wooden braces are on the sides. A strap goes around the user's shoe, and the bolts were the pad is attached to the braces also has string where the operator ties the brace to himself.
Date: February 18, 1896
Creator: Davis, James Walter & Brown, Elijah Clark
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Improvement in Grain-Driers.

Description: Patent for an improved grain-drier with design specifications and a description of the object's applications and usage, including illustrations.
Date: June 18, 1878
Creator: Henesee, Richard Tiernan
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Improvement in Combined Plow-Carrier and Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for improvement in combined plow-carrier and cotton-chopper by “combining with a plow-carrier, a revolving wheel, placed at right angles with the line of direction of the plows, and provided with a number of horizontal cutters at the ends of its spokes, for the purpose of cutting square across the ridges of earth cast up by the plows, in which cotton seed is sown, and dividing the ridges into isolated hills, each containing one or more cotton-plants.” (Lines 23-29) Illustration is incl… more
Date: May 18, 1869
Creator: Kirtley, Fielding L.
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Stock-Trough.

Description: Patent for a simple and durable stock-trough that feeds and waters stock and is easily cleaned. No wooden parts are exposed to the watering portion of the trough, and the invention will not injure the stock.
Date: December 18, 1894
Creator: Harry, Thomas C. & Harry, Hugh W.
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Peanut-Harvester

Description: Patent for a peanut harvester that uproots the peanut and lifts it for delivery to a carrier. This harvester also includes a pair of colters that roll alongside the row of peanuts to cut grass and loosen the soil, this includes a mechanism for raising and lowering the digging structure and fingers to guide to stems of the plants so that they are not cut.
Date: June 18, 1918
Creator: Phillips, Preston D. & Phillips, Herbert L.
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Ratchet-Clutch

Description: Patent for a clutch design that enables the use of a single clutch in agricultural machine engines.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Smith, John H.
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Plow-Point Attachment

Description: Patent for an attachment for the point of a plow that protects the point from wear and tear, especially in soil that is sandy.
Date: July 18, 1916
Creator: Trout, Calvin L.
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Draft Equalizer.

Description: Patent for an improved double tree adapted to be used without single-trees designed to equalize the draft in case on horse gets ahead of the other in a draft team.
Date: July 18, 1882
Creator: Jones, Jeremiah C. & Robertson, Alexander W.
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Draft-Equalizer.

Description: Patent for improvement in draft-equalizer “to drive a plurality of animals abreast, and is arranged so that neither of the animals need travel upon ploughed ground. It is also designed to obviate the usual unnecessary looseness of the draft connections and to provide for an adjustable tension upon the connection between the opposite equalizing-bars.” (Lines 12-19) Illustration is included.
Date: June 18, 1901
Creator: Shipman, Samuel H.
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Cotton-Harvester

Description: Patent for cotton harvesters and particularly to the picker mechanism, in which the picker is able to provide means for picking the cotton and delivering the same to the desired basket on the vehicle.
Date: February 18, 1918
Creator: Newman, Joe
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