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[Letter from Mary Dodd to Linnet Moore and Birdie McGee, September 14, 1897]

Description: In this letter, Dodd informs Moore and McGee of the goings-on in Willard, Tennessee. The news includes: updates about friends, gossip about finding a suitor, a discussion about the Centennial, a dialogue about photographs, and updates on family. She closes the letter by noting that she hopes that her cousins write her a long letter and sends her love to all,especially to her sister Minnie. The envelope is included with the letter.
Date: September 14, 1897
Creator: Dodd, Mary
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Wire-Stretcher.

Description: Patent for improvements in wire stretchers: "provide a wire stretcher of simple, durable, and economic construction, capable of being applied to a wire and supported upon s post or maintained in working position between posts or uprights" (lines 8-13).
Date: September 14, 1897
Creator: Brannon, Walter Zebulin
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Trolley Wire Hanger.

Description: Patent for new and improved trolley wire hangers to "provide a clamp for trolley-wires which may be easily and quickly adjusted by one not particularly skilled in the art" (lines 24-27), including instructions and illustrations. This clamp is also designed to keep broken insulator bolts from damaging the trolley and span wires.
Date: September 14, 1897
Creator: Faulkner, John F. & Campbell, Royer
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Marking Tag

Description: Patent for marking tags (price tags) for garments and/or fabrics for sale. The design is meant to reduce missing, torn, or frayed marking tags. Illustrations and instructions included.
Date: September 14, 1897
Creator: Winkler, Charles
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Needle.

Description: Patent for improvements in needles: "is to provide a ready means for cutting to the twine, thread, or cord carried by a needle" (lines 15-17).
Date: September 14, 1897
Creator: Posey, Robert H.
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Design for Horseshoe.

Description: Design patent for horseshoe with the flat lips projecting upwardly from the outer edge of the shoe and inwardly toward the center.
Date: September 14, 1897
Creator: Cooper, William M. & Cates, John Wesley
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Cotton-Baling Apparatus.

Description: Patent for the "improvements in cotton-baling apparatus or compresses of that type in which the cotton is received directly from the gin or gins" (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date: September 14, 1897
Creator: Melcher, Charles L.
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Apparatus for Stretching Fence-Wires.

Description: Patent for a portable manually operated apparatus that is designed to stretch wire-fence strands at right angles to tighten the full length of the strand without "kinking or twisting the fence-strand or driving staples or analagous fastenings into the fence-post" (lines 16-21) while the fence strand is tight. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 14, 1897
Creator: Pyeatt, Jessie Newton
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