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The Ferris Wheel, Volume 6, Number 29[b], Saturday, April 1, 1899

Description: Weekly newspaper contains local, national and world news, stories, poetry, jokes, church directory, and advertisements. This issue includes a feature story "Society and The Dog" with an illustration--[p.2], and an article with illustrations about the home and art and artifact collections of Major-General Miles.--[p.3]
Date: April 1, 1899
Creator: Ezzell, Frank
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Baling-Press.

Description: Patent for improvements in baling presses: "This invention relates to baling presses provided with runners, (instead of the usual wheels,) to be removed about the field; and my objects are, to construct such a press in such a manner that it can be readily started down with but few stakes, second; to provide a rigid but removable side brace to prevent the press from canting, and third; to prevent the operating lever from canting or swinging upward or downward when in operation; and to promote si… more
Date: April 10, 1894
Creator: Schubert, George
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Suspension-Bridge.

Description: Patent for improvements in suspension-bridge by using a combination of upper main cables reached from one pillar to the opposite pillar and anchored in the rear side of the pillars. A pair of lower cables at each side of the bridge; each pair being crossed at the center of the A-shaped or angular girders, these girders are bent for use as receiving hooks to form vertical stays. A series of girders hold the upper and lower cables in position thus making the bridge strong, light and rigid span.… more
Date: April 28, 1891
Creator: Tucker, Argyle W.
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Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines.

Description: Patent for "an attachment which can be applied to the table of a sewing-machine and removed therefrom at a moment's notice and which can be taken apart when required and reduced to a small package for the purpose of storing or placing aside when not required for immediate use." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 13, 1897
Creator: King, James E.
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Cotton Loading Derrick.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton-loading derrick. This design consists in "[t]he portable derrick, comprising the barrow-base having the longitudinal handle-bars, the extended longitudinal and transverse base-sills, and the bearings, the rotary shaft or mast having the slot and sheave, the upper shoulder and upward-projecting stud, the cross-head, the oblique braces connecting its rear arm to the mast, and the derrick-pulleys suspended from the free arm of said cross-head, the rope passing … more
Date: April 22, 1890
Creator: Field, Eldon M.
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