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[Letter from Robert Lee Kempner to D. W. Kempner, August 16, 1950]

Description: Letter from Robert Lee Kempner to D. W. Kempner discussing providing updates on the toilet facilities at Sections OPQR&S, family news, advice from Guaranty Trust on the Jacquel matter, loans, C.C.C. cotton, renting out space to either the Southern Pacific or the American Cancer Society, a clipping about Craig Cullinan, and the Korean War.
Date: August 16, 1950
Creator: Kempner, Robert Lee
Partner: Rosenberg Library

Cotton Buncher.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton buncher. This design utilizes a wheel that "is to press down the plants and weeds that are to be destroyed, so that the plows, whether used along with the wheel or afterward, will cover them up with fresh earth, and thus assist in destroying them, and at the same time cultivating the plants to be retained and facilitating the subsequent thinning process" (lines 62-68).
Date: January 16, 1883
Creator: Goodin, James Louis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Picker's Sack.

Description: Patent for improvements in a cotton-picker's sack, allowing for easy access to deposit and empty picked cotton while remaining nearly closed to hold and protect the cotton.
Date: October 16, 1888
Creator: Cliett, Taylor
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Forcing Liquids from Barrels.

Description: Patent for a new and improved device for extracting liquids from sealed containers. This design utilizes a bellows apparatus, and "by simply compressing [it] air is forced into the space in the barrel or vessel above the liquid, when the pressure of this air will exhaust the liquid through the faucet at the bottom under pressure" (lines 65-70).
Date: October 16, 1883
Creator: Park, Hardy B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: News briefs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a giant stone bible from Italy erected in Laurel Land Memorial Park in Oak Cliff, a call to inoculate dogs against rabies in Dallas, SMU coeds performing modern dance, and the two-day Cotton Bowl Bond and Option holders drawing at Fair Park.
Date: May 16, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Car-Coupling

Description: Patent for invention relating "to improvements in automatic car-couplings" (lines 9-10) for railroad cars.
Date: April 16, 1901
Creator: Priddy, Miles C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the draw-heads provided with projections . . . each having at its inner-portion a horizontally-elongated slot, and at its outer portion a vertically-elongated slot, of the horizontally-slidable coupling-pins, for respectively engaging the said slots" (lines 82-88).
Date: March 16, 1886
Creator: Sessions, Egbert G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Plano Star Courier article, January 16, 1992]

Description: An article written by Valerie Barna in the Plano Star Courier about the multinational studies program created at Carlisle Elementary School to highlight the cultures of some of its students. The PTA set up stations where students could experience the cultures.
Date: January 16, 1992
Creator: Barna, Valerie
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Defendant's Joint Motion to set aside the informations and for discharge for failure to provide a speedy trial…]

Description: A court filing titled "Defendant's Joint Motion to set aside the informations and for discharge for failure to provide a speedy trial, and for consolidation of this motion with those presently on file for purposes of defendants' pre-trial hearings for discharge pursuant to Art. 32A.02, C.C.P." and dated April 16, 1980.
Date: April 16, 1980
Creator: Maison, Donald J., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Remarks-Barbara Jordan, Knights of Peter Claver, Texas Award Banquet, Houston, Texas, October 16, 1976

Description: Text of speech delivered by Barbara Jordan regarding the presidential debate of 1976 between Richard Nixon and Walter Mondale. She suggests that the candidates should listen to African Americans, and that African American's shouldn't lose faith in the political system.
Date: October 16, 1976
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Partner: Texas Southern University

Oral History Interview with W. F. Needham, September 16, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with W.F. Needham. Needham entered the Navy through the V-5 training program in March 1944. The program was shutdown in March 1945 and he was sent to boot camp at Great Lakes Naval Training Center. Needham was trained as a corpsman and stationed at a Navy hospital in Seattle for the remainder of the war. He describes some of the work that he performed and the types of patients he treated. Needham describes escorting a wounded ser… more
Date: September 16, 2006
Creator: Needham, William F.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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