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Clothes-Pounder.

Description: Patent for a clothes pounder "which will inclose a body of air and expel the same when it is brought down upon the clothes forcing water through the clothes and filling with water an upper chamber, and which when lifted from the clothes will release a body of water at the top of the pounder and cause water to pass through the clothes" (lines 12-19).
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Beaver, William G.
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Collar-Support.

Description: Patent for improvements to collar supports "...to provide a supporter which may be readily pinned to the collar and which is therefore easily detached therefrom when desired" (lines 11-14) including illustrations.
Date: July 7, 1914
Creator: Towler, Mary E.
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[Cotton card on display at the Hill County Cell Block Museum in Hillsboro, Texas]

Description: Photograph of a wooden cotton card on display at the Hill County Cell Block Museum in Hillsboro, Texas. The cotton card has an inscription on it that reads, "The Only Genuine; Old Whittemore Patent No. 10 Cotton; Watson-Williams Mfg. Co.; Leicester, Mass." There is also a handwritten inscription to the left that reads, "H10, $2.00, I." Some cotton is seen inside the two cards and there is a folded piece of paper on the table in front of the card that states, "Cotton Cards."
Date: April 7, 2012
Creator: Keelin, Russell
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Location: 32.012947 -97.129775
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[News Script: Head on collisions]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about head on collisions between truck and car killing two youngsters.
Date: August 7, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Insect-Trap.

Description: Patent for an insect trap that entraps and kills insects that infest live plants or trees. This trap has a lantern to attract insects; the lantern is mounded in a pan that can be filled with liquid that injures and kills the insects.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: Cook, Katherine B.
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Mail-Pouch-Transferring Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a mail pouch transferring apparatus for use on trains, which consists of a crane that can be used in the same position no matter which direction the train is going past it.
Date: December 7, 1909
Creator: Pepple, John W.
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Railway Tie.

Description: Patent for a hollow metallic railway tie that is braced horizontally and vertically, with a new type and arrangement of tie-plates. This railway tie prevents rails from slipping, and allows for spreading of the track, which is useful on curves.
Date: August 7, 1906
Creator: Pepple, John W.
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