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[The Crazy Water Well--1974]

Description: What is said to be the original Crazy Woman's Well is preserved under the sidewalk at the northwest corner of the Crazy Hotel. This is supposed to be the well the mentally-challenged (or the once-designated "Crazy woman") drank from that "Cured" her dementia. Stories are in conflict about how many women there were--and whether the water actually cured any of them of epilepsy. Subsequent analysis of the water refuted a rumor that there was any Lithium was in it. … more
Date: March 24, 1974
Creator: Weaver, A. F.
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[The Fire at the Sangcura-Sprudel Well Building]

Description: The Sangcura-Sprudel Well, located at 800 NW 2nd Avenue, was built around 1900. The building was later moved to 314 NW 5th Street, and the porches were enclosed. It was then re-modeled into a rooming house. The building burned down on December 5, 1973, five minutes before the annual Christmas Parade in Mineral Wells.
Date: December 5, 1973
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[News Script: Dynamite Blast Fatal]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a premature dynamite explosion which killed Tom Hamitt and injured Lupe Rodriguez
Date: January 5, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Analytical Study of the Ogallala Aquifer in Carson County, Texas: Projections of Saturated Thickness, Volume of Water in Storage, Pumpage Rates, Pumping Lifts, and Well Yields

Description: Report documenting statistical data and analysis about the state of depletion for the Ogallala Aquifer in Carson County, and to provide water-usage information for planning purposes.
Date: November 1979
Creator: Bell, Ann E. & Morrison, Shelly
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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