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[News Script: News briefs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering three news stories. The first story is about Fort Worth tax evader Newton Samuel Locke having his prison sentence suspended. The second story is about Roger Wolf Kahn, chief test pilot for Grumann Aircraft, landing in Dallas. The third story is about improvements to an enclosure at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Oklahoma City a year after a leopard housed there managed to escape.
Date: February 23, 1951
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Roof Screw.

Description: Patent for a new and improved roof screw. This design consists, "[a]s a new article of manufacture, [in] a screw consisting of a threaded shank having an integral head, an enlarged collar or flange on said shank below the head thereon, and an elastic cushion on the shank immediately below the enlarged collar or flange, for the purpose described" (lines 60-66).
Date: September 23, 1890
Creator: Corley, Daniel B.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Dogs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about trained dogs teaching Dallas children about safety.
Date: January 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Coffee Roaster.

Description: Patent for a new and improved "culinary utensil primarily intended for use as a coffee roaster, but also . . . of any article which needs to be stirred while upon the fire" (lines 12-16). This design utilizes a crankshaft to stir the beans (or other foods) as they roast.
Date: August 23, 1881
Creator: Walling, Edmund Pendleton
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Boxing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the AAU boxing tournament in Dallas. Winners of the tournament were selected to represent Texas in the national AAU tournament.
Date: April 23, 1954
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Improvement in Lever-Powers.

Description: Patent for a lever-power which applies "the power and resistance to the lever, so that they will change positions with relation to the fulcrum as the power end of the lever descends" (para. 2). The relation of the lever with the fulcrum is flexible, and allows for increased leverage.
Date: September 23, 1879
Creator: Franklin, Mathew Calhoun
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut Lock.

Description: Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the end-cleft screw-bolt, of the wedge which is made of the same width as the diameter of the bolt, and provided with serrations corresponding to the screw-thread, and the fastening-wire which is wrapped around both bolt and wedge and lies in their respective grooves and serrations" (lines 72-78).
Date: August 23, 1881
Creator: McAllister, Lewis Campbell
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bobbin Winder for Sewing Machines.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bobbin-winder for sewing machines. This design consists in "the combination, with the shaft provided with a screw-threaded aperture at one end and having a groove formed near the other end, and a carrying pulley, of the spindle provided with a threaded extension entering said screw-threaded aperture of the shaft, said spindle having a taper and made of highly tempered metal" (lines 66-73).
Date: August 23, 1887
Creator: Evetts, Thomas Frankling
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insectifuge Fertilizer for Cotton.

Description: Patent for an insectifuge fertilizer for cotton, which promotes the growth of the cotton plant and prevents boll weevils and cotton worms from attacking cotton plants by making them distasteful to the insects through the application of a mixture of bicarbonate of soda, nitrate of soda, sulfate of copper, and crushed decorticated cotton seed.
Date: August 23, 1910
Creator: White, Reuben G.
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[Cesar Chavez March]

Description: This article deals with a march commerating Cesar Chavez Day at a school in Fort Worth. Both the original Spanish article and the English translation are included.
Date: March 23, 2006
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Newspaper Clippings from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, August 23, 1992]

Description: Two newspaper clippings discussing the town of Haslet, Texas; these two clippings talk about the actions of David Rogers who was "the closest thing Haslet has to a city manager." The second clipping furthers this description of his job and routine as well as the expected boom Haslet was expected to, and in some ways already had, experience.
Date: August 23, 1992
Creator: Auge, Karen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Haslet Public Library

Oral History Interview with Walden Franzen, October 23, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Walden Franzen. Franzen joined the Navy in 1937. He became a plane captain with VB-3 and served on the USS Saratoga (CV-3) and the USS Ranger (CV-4). Franzen mentions life on board ship and the difference between the two carriers. He went on to serve as a crew chief on a PBY in the Caribbean and later as a maintenance supervisor for a utility squadron that served along the East Coast. Franzen remained in the Navy after the w… more
Date: October 23, 2003
Creator: Franzen, Walden
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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