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[News Script: Old Vet Honored with Army Medal]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Walter W. Williams. At age one-hundred-and-thirteen, Williams is the oldest surviving veteran of the Civil War. He receives a medal authorized by the eighty-fourth Congress.
Date: November 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Combined Corn and Cotton Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "consists . . . in pivoting the plow-beam, provided with a shovel for making a furrow into which the seed is dropped, in between the front ends of the beams of the two covering-shovels, the seed-covering-shovel beams being secured to the handles of the machine, whereby the pivoted beam is controlled entirely by the handles; second, in pivoting the seed-box to the rear end of the beam, provided with shovel for forming a furrow for the seed to dr… more
Date: November 2, 1880
Creator: Carter, Hiram H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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