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[News Clip: The week in review]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story of the week's top news stories.
Date: May 11, 1957
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Mosquitos]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Fort Worth facing an influx of mosquitoes due to heavy rains.
Date: May 8, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 23 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Advertisement from Magic Fog, Inc. #1]

Description: Advertisement from Magic Fog, Inc. for their eponymous pesticide. It contains a large black and white photograph of a car in a junkyard with a large cloud of fog coming out from under it. A blurb about the product is underneath the photograph.
Date: 1953
Creator: Magic Fog, Inc.
Partner: Rosenberg Library

Insect-Destroyer

Description: Patent for an improved insect destroyer that can be fixed to farm equipment and other vehicles.
Date: March 21, 1916
Creator: King, Charles L. & McKie, Stephan A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insecticide for Boll-Weevils.

Description: Patent for boll-weevil insecticide with novel method of compounding. Arsenic and baking soda are combined with wood ash to create a dust which kills the insects as an inhalent instead of needing to be consumed by the insects in order to be effective.
Date: November 1, 1921
Creator: Koenig, Philipp
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Destroyer.

Description: Patent for dislodging, collecting, and destroying bugs and weevils by shaking pests from cotton bushes and crushing them.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Brooks, John Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insecticide.

Description: Patent for an insecticide that uses an arsenic compound to kill insects instead of Paris green or London purple, and can easily be made into a beautiful green powder that may be used as a pigment.
Date: November 27, 1894
Creator: Brumleu, Ludwig & Brumleu, Ernest
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Destroyer.

Description: Patent for machine "designed to be carried by a cultivator or mounted upon wheels and adapted to discharge the fumes of sulfur and other insecticides upon cotton and other plants to destroy the cotton-weevil, caterpillar, worms, and various other forms of insect life [and to] provide a construction which will insure a steady feed of the sulfur or other insecticide employed and thereby render the discharge of the fumes regular and of uniform strength" (lines 12-23).
Date: January 9, 1900
Creator: Passmore, Benjamin H. & May, Robert B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Destroyer.

Description: Patent for fumigation insect destroyer, in particular cotton boll weevils, but also for prairie dogs and other vermin.
Date: July 30, 1901
Creator: Koy, August & Kveton, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insecticide.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in insecticides, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 14, 1898
Creator: Carmichaelm, Joseph B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insecticide.

Description: Patent for an insecticide for boll weevils, which is made of oil of sassafras, chalk, water, and sulfate of magnesia.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Taylor, Henry C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vermin Poison.

Description: Patent for "insecticide compositions for exterminating prairie-dogs, ants, &c." (lines 6-7), including dosages and instructions for use.
Date: October 13, 1885
Creator: Womack, John David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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