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Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6680

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: Liability for city and school taxes of bus and freight lines operating through the city of Sulphur Springs.
Date: September 10, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7308

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: Whether City Commission of City of Sulphur Springs legally may sit as a Board of Equalization.
Date: 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7339

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: The power and authority of the City Commission of Sulphur Springs to grant a motor bus franchise without submission to popular vote.
Date: August 12, 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4340

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Liability arising under teacher's contract after destruction of school building by fire.
Date: February 2, 1942
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Trading Card: Bois d'Arc Tree]

Description: Trading card issued as part of the Geocache Challenge program for Cooper Lake State Park (South Sulphur Unit), depicting an image of several bois d'arc (bow-wood) trees in a meadow filled with wildflowers. The back of the card includes information about the trees.
Date: 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ironing Table.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ironing board. This design consists in "the rigid supporting-frame of an ironing-table, a cross-piece secured to the outside of the upper ends of the supports at one end of the frame, so that its upper edge shall project above the supports, an ironing-board top hinged to one side of the cross-piece, and a shelf secured to the upper edge and projecting to the opposite side of said cross-piece" (lines 86-94).
Date: October 19, 1886
Creator: Adair, Annie E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lemon and Lime Squeezer

Description: Patent for an improved lemon and lime squeezer that can divide the lemon and lime into two halves and squeeze the halves in succession, or one half be left un-squeezed.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Bolton, Jack R.; Williams, John D. & Struve, Felix L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Leaf-Turner.

Description: Patent for a new and improved leaf turner which allows the piano player to turn the pages of their sheet music without taking their hands off the keyboard. This leaf turner is "noiseless and efficient in operation and...will respond instantly to the actuating impulse" (lines 21-23). It is not expensive to make, and securely holds music and releases it without effort.
Date: January 11, 1921
Creator: Holcom, Jarret C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Tire

Description: Patent for a bolt-free spring connection between a vehicle tires inner and outer rims, allowing for an air cushion between rims and improving overall performance of vehicle tires.
Date: September 18, 1917
Creator: Horne, Henry M. & Buford, John C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wrench.

Description: Patent for improving wrenches to reach "parts of machinery [that are] ordinarily difficult [to] access" (lines 12-13), specifically "used in removing or replacing the nut or nuts on a fourth connecting rod of a Ford motor [ . . . ] such rod being in a position difficult to reach by an ordinary wrench" (lines 17-21).
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Slagle, George R.; Garner, Arthur N. & Rushin, Willliam R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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