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Churn-Dash.

Description: Patent for new improvements to a churn dash, including two concentric rings joined by inclined wings with accompanying illustrations.
Date: May 10, 1898
Creator: Renfro, John R., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press

Description: Patent for a hay baling press that uses less compressions per bale to lengthen the life of the press and speed up the process, requires less workers to attend to it, and is a more powerful baler than previous models. It also could be operated by horses or by a gas-motor.
Date: April 9, 1907
Creator: Carney, James A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Measure and Funnel.

Description: Patent for "a combined measure and funnel, the same being especially designed for dealing out molasses" (lines 13-15), including illustrations.
Date: June 8, 1897
Creator: Sevier, Moses Nimrod
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn-Heading Knife

Description: Patent for improvements in the cutting blades of corn-heading knives that are worn on the hands. Illustrations included.
Date: March 31, 1914
Creator: Owen, Melville D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil Survey of the Vernon Area, Texas

Description: Text describes the location and boundaries, history of settlement and agricultural development, climate, physiography and geology, soils, agricultural methods, and agricultural conditions of the Vernon area in the Texas panhandle.
Date: 1902
Creator: Lapham, J. E. (Jesse Erwin)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Mung beans]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: 1990
Duration: 1 minute 56 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: China Palace]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: 1990
Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Beef Day]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the town of Vernon serving steak to the public.
Date: April 17, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Injunction hearing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. about hearing in Vernon on an injunction involving a multi million dollar cotton deal.
Date: July 25, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Vernon bank]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about state and federal examiners who are probing the closing of the first state bank in Vernon which may have been the initial casualty in a bogus cotton deal affecting 26 creditors and eleven banks in four states.
Date: July 24, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Marker at Doan's Crossing

Description: Photograph of the granite marker at Doan's Crossing, a point where over six million longhorn cattle crossed the Red River on the way to Kansas. The monument has over 60 Texas cattle brands illustrated on it.
Date: unknown
Partner: Cattle Raisers Museum

[Photo Album]

Description: Family photo album containing portraits and landscape photos of a ranch. Many of the portraits appear to have been taken by photographers in Vernon, Texas, and the surrounding region. The album pages have a printed floral design around the photo slots and decorative border along the edges.
Date: unknown
Partner: UNT Libraries

Weighing-Scale.

Description: Patent for a weighing-scale that is "of simple and improved construction which will instantly determine and indicate the weight of the article placed thereon" (lines 13-16). The scale uses revolving disks that have a chain around them which moves a lever to indicate the weight of the object being weighed. The object being weighed sits on a pan that is suspended by the same chains that hold the revolving disks in place.
Date: December 15, 1896
Creator: Stephens, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hull-Burner.

Description: Patent for a hull burner in particular for use with cotton gins, and is intended to easily attach to the door of a furnace without inconveniencing the operator. The hull burner provides a door to which the chute may be easily disconnected or attached to form an air tight joint to prevent escape of smoke into the furnace room.
Date: June 1, 1915
Creator: Sneed, William Vernon
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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