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[News Script: Woodville]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the death of four members of the Stafford family following alleged asphyxiation from a faulty car exhaust system.
Date: September 1, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Cultivating-Plow.

Description: Patent for "an improved cultivating-plow adapted for cultivating a number of rows of growing plants at a single operation" with improvements in connecting plow-beams to the axle, to devices for raising the plows from the ground, and in operating the cultivator.
Date: November 27, 1900
Creator: Wells, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Axle-Skein

Description: Patent for an axle skein that holds the skein on the axle.
Date: December 20, 1910
Creator: Bevil, Andrew H. & Bevil, Charles W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Headlight.

Description: Patent for "an electric head-light which will adjust the carbons of the arc lamp without the usual vibration" (lines 12-14) and be more durable and efficient.
Date: October 31, 1911
Creator: Dooley, Robert M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for improvements a cotton chopper that "consists of a two-wheeled carriage having a hoe situated to thin the cotton and is operated by bevel gear-wheels, a ratchet-wheel, and a spring" (lines 12-15).
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Levings, Enoc
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn-Thinner.

Description: Patent for improvements in corn-thinners for removing excess stalks in the field by constructing the “upper portion’s blade flat to present straight side cutting edges, and having the lower portion curved transversely to present to a lower semicircular cutting edge.” (Lines 53-56.) With this design, the operator would not have to stoop over, making the thinning operation easier. Illustration is included.
Date: February 17, 1903
Creator: Horn, Henry G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Map of Tyler County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Tyler County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:177,778] (4000 varas to 3/4 of an inch).
Date: 1897
Creator: Rowe, S. J.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Bed Stay.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bed stay. This design "consist[s] of wires doubled at their center parts and twisted . . . to form loops . . . and diverged from said twisted parts and attached to the corner portions of the bedstead, and a tension and locking device consisting of a straining-lever fulcrumed to one of the loops and adapted to lock thereon and engaging the other loop" (lines 90-97).
Date: October 2, 1888
Creator: Bethea, Cade
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bed Stay.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bed stay. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a bed-stay, of wires connected to the corners of the bed-stead, blocks on the wires, loops connected to the blocks, a lever hung to the loop, and a latch device locking the free end of the lever to the loop" (lines 10-15).
Date: December 6, 1887
Creator: Bethea, Cade
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Funeral Program for Richard Earl Gill, October 1, 1970]

Description: Funeral program for former NTSU football player Richard Earl Gill, born January 16, 1949 and died September 27, 1970. The funeral was held October 1, 1970 at Kirby High School Auditorium, officiated by Rev. Allen and Rev. M. Frazier. Funeral arrangements were made through Tyler County Funeral Home and he was buried in Town Bluff Cemetery in Woodville, Texas.
Date: October 1, 1970
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-192

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Tyler County or the utility company must bear the expense of relocating poles and other facilities of the utility company incident to the widening of a public road.
Date: January 11, 1968
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO89-50

Description: Letter opinion 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, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the wife of the Tyler County Judge may be employed by the Tyler County Hospital as head of a new Cardiac Rehabilitation Department.
Date: June 19, 1989
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

General Soil Map, Tyler 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.
Date: unknown
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Location: None
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil Survey of Tyler 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 Tyler County, Texas.
Date: 2008
Creator: Steptoe, Levi, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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