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Post Auger.

Description: Patent for a new and improved post-auger. This design "is to improve that class of post-augers whose blades are made adjustable so as to make large or small holes. They have ordinarily been adjusted by means of a bolt, nut, and slot in the blade; but the blades work out of correspondence with each other, the nuts becoming more or less loosened. [This design] dispense[s] with bolt, nut, and slot" (lines 15-23).
Date: October 22, 1889
Creator: Harris, Green Berry
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Post Hole Auger.

Description: Patent for a new and improved post-hole digger. This design is "compris[ed of] an operating handle having a series of radial horizontal wings provided on their lower faces with downwardly-projecting flanges, cutting-blades having horizontal slotted arms at their upper ends adapted to fit between the flanges of the wings, said cutting-blades having their lower ends pointed or bent and curved inwardly and transversely, to bring the cutting edge of one blade out of the plane of rotation of the rea… more
Date: November 17, 1885
Creator: Grimm, Frederick
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Post Hole Auger.

Description: Patent for a new and improved post-hole auger. This design consists in "the shank forked and continued in the arms, the latter having elbows at their lower ends, in combination with the ring-shaped band having a sharp lower edge and bolts passing through said bands and arms and through said elbows and arms" (lines 91-97).
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: McCall, Dugald Bell
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[News Clip: Water wells combat shortage]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Fort Worth homeowners digging wells in their yards to avoid high city water bills.
Date: June 21, 1953
Duration: 2 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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