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[Letter from T. L. James to D. W. Kempner, April 1, 1948]

Description: Letter from Thos. L. James to D. W. Kempner discussing an outcome concerning a washing machine with Kahn & Levy, the delivery of dairy feed and Hay, and negotiating for dealership pricing on a gas burning incinerator and an electric kitchen garbage disposal. A large portion of the letter refers to prices for an affordable spraying machine for Kempner's cattle.
Date: April 1, 1948
Creator: James, Thomas Leroy
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Letter from T. L. James to D. W. Kempner, March 24, 1948]

Description: Letter, subject titled: "General," from Thos. L. James to D. W. Kempner discussing responses to recent list of requests made by Kempner. James writes that a case of Tomatoes and Hot Foot Insect Powder has been hand delivered, and that he is still looking up information on a cattle sprayer, a gas fired incinerator, and an electric kitchen garbage disposal. A large portion of the letter is dedicated to pricing and information on two washing machines for Kempner to chose from. At the bottom of theā€¦ more
Date: March 24, 1948
Creator: James, Thomas Leroy
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Photograph of a Crane]

Description: Photograph of a crane lifting an object out of a pile of dirt and other objects, with several horse-drawn wagons nearby. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph identifies the location as an incinerator in South Dallas.
Date: 1928~
Partner: Dallas Municipal Archives
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[News Clip: 30 million dollars in bonds are burned]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the city of Dallas burning 30 million dollars worth of municipal bonds that have been paid off.
Date: March 9, 1956
Duration: 52 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Thomas L. James, April 9, 1948]

Description: Letter from D. W. Kempner to Thomas L. James discussing a range of topics concerning the purchase of cows for himself and Mrs. Adoue, an opinion from Milikien about soil depletion for alfalfa, price quotes on pipes, information on a garbage disposal unit and a gas burning garbage incinerator.
Date: April 9, 1948
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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[News Clip: Dixico Protest]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story by reporter Shelly Kofler about opposition to Dixico's request for a state permit to incinerate their own hazardous waste rather than send it to a disposal facility near Avalon, Texas. Opponents of this proposal by the Oak Cliff plant located on Polk and Lebanon include a neighbor Don Lewis. This footage includes an interview with Lewis and a Dixico representative and a town hall meeting.
Date: August 22, 1989, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 59 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Private display of fireworks]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Fort Worth investigators seizing a truckload of contraband fireworks and destroying them by dumping them into the city incinerator.
Date: December 23, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Tease]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of an inventor who says that he has a pollution-free incinerator but nobody wants to see it.
Date: February 8, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Narcotics burned]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the Dallas police burning heroin, marijuana, and cocaine.
Date: February 18, 1959
Duration: 1 minute
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Incinerator-Closet

Description: Patent for an incinerator closet with "the purpose of receiving human excreta so the contents may be dried out and burned up" (lines 11-13) within a fireproof device, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 28, 1918
Creator: Greene, George A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Garbage-Burner.

Description: Patent for a garbage incinerator, which has a rotating grate to speed up the evaporation of moisture from the garbage and produce quicker burning.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Burwell, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Garbage-Furnace.

Description: Patent for an improved garbage-furnace which consist of a chamber having a grate for the reception of the garbage, a fire-box at each end, and a sand-box between the fire-boxes below the grate, grate-bars are arranged over the fire-boxes and extending from the bridge-wall, when the fire-boxes are ignited, garbage is introduced through the feed holes, the smoke, gases, fumes & etc. from the burning fuel and the garbage passed through a channel leading to the chimney. Illustration is included.
Date: March 10, 1891
Creator: Brownlee, Alexander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Appratus for Treating Refuse Matter.

Description: Patent for "the perfection of an apparatus by the use of which night soil or garbage may be reduced to ashes in the shortest possible time and at a comparatively trivial expense" (lines 20-24).
Date: August 8, 1893
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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