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[News Script: Other fires]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a fire in McKinney, Texas and a fire in Lockhart, Texas.
Date: August 29, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Stalk Puller

Description: Patent for a stalk puller. This invention is designed to pull cotton stalks from the ground. Illustration included.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Smith, Cullen Rogers
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper, which has a hoe on one side and a cultivator on the other.
Date: March 15, 1910
Creator: Dittrich, William
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Churning Machine

Description: Patent for a churning machine that pumps liquids. It is designed to reduce materials used in this labor. This machine will also improve the quality of the labor and decrease the cost of this labor.
Date: December 6, 1905
Creator: Van Dusen, Henry L
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Photographic-Printing Device.

Description: Patent for a new photographic-printing device featuring an improved apparatus, as well as new exposure and printing capabilities, including illustrations.
Date: February 20, 1906
Creator: Brown, William H.
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Device for Locking Shafts in Hubs or Couplings.

Description: Patent for a new and useful device for locking shafts in hubs or couplings. This design is to "avoid the use of a key-way in the shaft and o provide the tubular member with a removable and reversible key having a serrated face adapted to be forced into close contact" (line 12-16).
Date: January 11, 1898
Creator: Rylander, Parrish H.
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Sunshade-Gear for Personal Wear.

Description: Patent for a wearable sunshade, which is worn over the shoulders and allows free movement of the body while in use and has holders for farm tools included on the sunshade holding device.
Date: November 17, 1908
Creator: Ridout, William Louis
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Motor Car Traffic System

Description: Patent for motor car traffic system. "This invention has reference to improvements in motor car traffic systems, and its object is to provide a means whereby motor cars may be constrained to move in a predetermined path without the violation of the chauffeur, so that motor cars may be adapted for use in suburban traffic in place of the ordinary trolley cars." (lines 8-15). Illustration included
Date: May 21, 1907
Creator: Yates, Robert T.
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Automatic Gate.

Description: Patent for an automatic gate that can be unlatched and opened by a vehicle approaching; and then, closed and latched again after passage of the vehicle. The automatic gate is reliable, not easily deranged, and simple in construction.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Laas, Louis August
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Disk Cultivator

Description: Patent for an improved "disk cultivator that will be adapted for the various purposes to which such devices are ordinarily applied. The invention consists in certain details of construction and combination and arrangement of parts" (lines 13-18)
Date: August 9, 1898
Creator: Brock, Andrew L.
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Sunshade

Description: Patent for a sunshade to shield field workers from the sun. Illustrations included.
Date: March 10, 1908
Creator: Ridout, William L.
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Tag

Description: Patent for a tag. This tag is intended for use with dry goods, material bolts, and like items. Illustration included.
Date: March 17, 1908
Creator: Brown, Sampson H.
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper, which cuts faster and more accurately than other models and sends the waste cotton and weeds to one side.
Date: March 9, 1909
Creator: Winkler, Christoph
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Churn

Description: Patent for a new churn with a simplified and improved construction, includes illustrations.
Date: October 1, 1901
Creator: New, John
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Hose-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and useful hose coupling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 30, 1899
Creator: Conley, Andrew Jackson
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Wire Fence

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in wire fences. This invention is to "make a cheap and efficient post to which fence-wires may be quickly and durable stapled" (line 15-17).
Date: December 21, 1897
Creator: Johnson, Thomas
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Baling-Press

Description: Patent for a baling press which uses less power to press hay the same tightness as current baling presses.
Date: February 8, 1910
Creator: Smith, Ernest D.
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