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[News Script: Bank robbery]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the largest bank robbery in Texas.
Date: June 27, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Motor-Driven Impliment

Description: Patent for a motor-driven farming tool that can be used as a cultivator, planter, or plow. Illustrations included.
Date: November 19, 1912
Creator: Horn, Lafayette
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Photographic-Printing Machine

Description: Patent for a new and improved Photographic Printing Machine. The device allows for accurately positioning negative to contact accurately with printing paper.
Date: September 17, 1912
Creator: Loving, Roy R.
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Grass-Destroyer

Description: Patent for a grass destroyer designed to remove unwanted vegetation. Illustrations included.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Nelson, George Abner
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Bolt Lock for Railways

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in bolt locks for railways. This invention is to "provide a simple, durable, and effective device of this class" (line 13-14).
Date: December 21, 1897
Creator: Herrin, Lemuel
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Sanitary Banana-Display Case.

Description: Patent for sanitary banana display case for retail purposes, which displays bananas as well as keeping them away from insects and being touched.The display case is made of glass or other transparent material and provides both the fruit, hung from hooks within the case, and the case itself to be rotated.
Date: September 19, 1911
Creator: Haden, Wesley W.
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Sand Band

Description: Patent for sand band. This invention is for carriages and wagons to prevent dust and other materials from fouling the axle. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1911
Creator: Nelson, George A.; Hamil, Frank H. & Duke, Fred H.
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Body-Brace

Description: Patent for a body brace made of wire and padding. One pad rests against the chest and the other rests against the front of the legs. There is a coil mechanism in the center that helps the wearer stand upright.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: Russell, Manning W.
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Combined Knife and Scale.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in a combined knife and scale. This design "has relation to a combined knife and scale, and is particularly adapted for the use of butchers" (line 12 - 14).
Date: February 1, 1898
Creator: Herrin, Lemuel
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Roller Bearing

Description: Patent for improvement on roller bearings that include spaced rings and multiple rollers.
Date: November 2, 1911
Creator: Tatum, Franklin M.
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Vehicle-Wheel.

Description: Patent for a vehicle wheel that has hub casings, which keep the lubricating oil inside and dirt outside.
Date: October 31, 1911
Creator: Tatum, Franklin M.
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Gate

Description: Patent for special operating mechanism for opening and closing a gate by use of a lever that will cause the gate to swing open and closed.
Date: May 29, 1906
Creator: Fears, John
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Harrow

Description: Patent for an improved harrow. Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: McWilliams, Thomas J.
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Scraper for Cultivators.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in scrapers for "cultivators-shovels, plows, and like tilling implements" (line 12-13).
Date: September 20, 1898
Creator: Butler, Albert C.
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Street Scene

Description: Copy photograph of a street scene in Brady, Texas. Visible are the courthouse, two people in a horse-drawn vehicle, and several other buildings. A hand-written note says, "Don't you wish you could see this beautiful scenery. We all miss you won't you come home." Text at the bottom of the photograph says, "Bird's-Eye View, Brady, Texas."
Date: unknown
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