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Coyote Wisdom

Description: This volume contains popular folklore of Mexico and Texas, including animal folk stories, Navajo creation myths, discussions about folk characters, discussions about the philosophy of folklore, and other miscellaneous folk stories. The index begins on page 293.
Date: 1938
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Partner: UNT Press

[News Script: Plane crash]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about fatal plane crash near Goldthwaite.
Date: October 20, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Egg Preserving Compound

Description: Patent for a egg preserving compound. This invention consists of an air-excluding coating to prevent deterioration for an indefinite period.
Date: December 22, 1903
Creator: Brown, William F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Churn

Description: Patent for a churn. This invention is a class of rotary dasher churns using two paddles. Illustration included.
Date: June 28, 1904
Creator: Roberts, Chandler Y.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Axle-Skein.

Description: Patent for an improved version of a certain type of axel skein or spindle holder (the kind in which a spindle with a box or housing rigidly holds a tapered axle.) This patent claims to be an improvement by “simple and inexpensive construction and in which the connections are such that the parts can be conveniently joined or separated and when joined produce a strong and durable combination” (lines 14-21).
Date: September 29, 1903
Creator: Cryer, Henry M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator

Description: Patent for an improvement in cultivators. This invention is designed to vary the distance between the cultivator-beams. Illustration included.
Date: March 8, 1904
Creator: Eddy, William Lafayette
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Brake

Description: Patent for a rail-car brake system. Illustration included.
Date: March 15, 1904
Creator: Brown, Herbert E. & Brown, Marcus L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a cultivator, by William J. Gillentine. It provides a means to adjust cultivator shovel-gangs relative to each other. Includes a lever-and-ratchet mechanism.
Date: June 12, 1906
Creator: Gillentine, Willliam A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Crate

Description: Patent for a type of crate used for shipping eggs. Illustrations included.
Date: April 6, 1909
Creator: Brown, Willaim F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mills Co.

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Mills County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, towns and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:228,571] (6000 varas to 7/8 of an inch).
Date: 1906
Creator: Clark, S. C.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Mills County Courthouse

Description: Photograph of the C.S.A. 1861-1865 (Confederate States of America) memorial in front of the Mills County Courthouse in Goldthwaite, Texas. Names on the memorial are: James Thomas Guthrie Pvt 13th TX Cav Co. E; David Morris Frontier Protection; Wm. D. Rudd Co. D 46th Reg Inf; Daniel H. Trent Co. E 31st TX Brigade Tst; George W. Trent Co. E 31st TX Brigade Tst; Josiah G. Trent Co. E 31st TX Brigade Tst; Henry A. Atkinson Sgt Co. 1 2nd Reg Ark Inf; Hiram C. Dunlap Pvt Co G 31st Reg TX Cav; C.C. C… more
Date: April 22, 2006
Creator: Howington, Ann
Partner: UNT Libraries

Bridle Bit.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bridle bit. This design "consist[s] of curb-plates provided with the mouth-bar and having the upper ends provided with slots and the lower ends formed with longitudinal slots, and the cheek-plates loosely fitted to the outer ends of the mouth-bar and having their opposite ends formed with openings for the attachment of the head-stall and reins" (lines 72-79).
Date: March 11, 1890
Creator: Allen, John Hudson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mills County

Description: Map shows shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1907
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mills County, state of Texas.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century Mills County, Texas property boundaries, land patents, landowners, towns, and plat numbers. Scale [1:66,667].
Date: 1888
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0601

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Mills County may fund the Fox Crossing Water District.
Date: February 11, 2008
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6131

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Salaries or compensation of county Commissioners of Mills County.
Date: 1944
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6365

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Maximum Compensation of the County Officials of Mills County.
Date: January 20, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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