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[News Script: Weather intro]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about temperatures rising to 100 degrees and residents in the tri-county water district in Central Texasbeing out of water again.
Date: September 11, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Animal-Trap

Description: Patent for an animal trap with a unique construction. It can be used for many animals but is specially made for salamanders or other burrowing type animals.
Date: September 9, 1902
Creator: Hetherington, Sam
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Boll-Weevil Exterminator

Description: Patent for a boll weevil exterminator, which rids cotton plants and bolls of insects and exterminates them. Illustrations included.
Date: January 14, 1908
Creator: Watkins, George W.
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Brace for Bedsteads.

Description: Patent for a new and improved brace for bedsteads. This design has for its object "to provide an attachment for bedsteads whereby the side rails are prevented from springing outward or expanding from any cause, and thus allowing the slats to fall through" (lines 14-18).
Date: November 20, 1888
Creator: Holmes, James C.
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Breast for Cotton-Gins.

Description: Patent for improvements in breasts for cotton gins: " My invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of gin breasts for cotton gins and consists in providing in conjunction with a gin breast an adjustable "up-per circle" to facilitate the formation of the roll, to prevent the seed cotton from overflowing from the gin breast as the roll rotates, and preserve the proper degree of contact between the gin saws and the roll" (lines 12-20).
Date: April 10, 1894
Creator: Schulze, Andrew
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Car-Coupler.

Description: Patent for a car-coupler, with illustrations. The purpose of this patent for a car-coupler was to improve existing car-couplings by providing, "safe, convenient, and expeditious means for readily coupling and uncoupling sections of cars with the danger incurred of getting between them" (lines 12-16).
Date: April 5, 1887
Creator: Williamson, John A., JR.
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Cotton Blocker.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton-blocker. This design "relates to cotton-blockers . . . to be applied to cultivators; and the object of the invention is to provide a blocker and mechanism for operating it which may be applied to cultivators of any construction, and with but little trouble, and to provide a hoe-blade which will clear itself of dirt and weeds and make a regular and steady stroke" (lines 11-18).
Date: October 4, 1887
Creator: Jordan, James Thomas
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Corn-Sheller.

Description: Patent for improvement in corn-shellers; in which “it consists in a perforated casting provided with radial teeth or projections which extend toward its center and which is to be secured to a support having an opening through it, combined with a double-ended handle which has an opening through its center and teeth projecting from the opening.” (Lines 13-20) Illustration is included.
Date: September 22, 1891
Creator: Bander, Charles Bornet
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Automatic Weighing-Scale.

Description: Patent for an automatic weighing-scale meant to be connected to a pneumatic conveyer to weigh cotton, grain, or other products. The invention weighs "any amount to which its scale may be set, and then cutting off the supply and emptying itself, when it may be reset, preferably by hand, to repeat the weighing operation" (lines 18-22).
Date: July 9, 1895
Creator: Schulze, Andrew
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Automatic Cotton-Weighing Scale.

Description: Patent for an automatic cotton-weighing scale that is designed "to be used in connection with pneumatic conveyers, and it is of such construction that it will automatically weigh any amount that its scale may be set at, cut off the supply from the conveyer, empty itself, and immediately reset itself, the resetting of the machine opening the supply-valve from the conveyer, so that the weighing operation can be repeated" (lines 13-21).
Date: July 9, 1895
Creator: Schulze, Andrew
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80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 46

Description: Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives requesting Congress to authorize the Secretary of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to convey the Thomas T. Connally Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Marlin, Texas, to the State of Texas.
Date: June 15, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legislative Document
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Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-1104

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether certain Certificates of Obligation of Falls County, issued by the Commissioners Court pursuant to Article 2368a.1, V.C.S., may be purchased by the Permanent School Fund of Falls County?
Date: March 28, 1972
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
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Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5739

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Can the county auditor of Falls County legally approve the claim of the C. O. Leuschner Estate for a refund of the taxes paid by said estate to Falls County for the years 1914 through 1929?
Date: January 28, 1943
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
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Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-453

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Compensation of County Treasurer of Falls County.
Date: December 12, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
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[News Script: Tom Connally]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the funeral for former United States Senator Tom Connally in Marlin.
Date: October 30, 1963
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Bottle-Cap

Description: Patent for Louis Skala's improvement on the bottle cap. This design features a clampable bottlecap design for better functionality and a better seal
Date: March 9, 1918
Creator: Skala, Louis
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Oral History Interview with Itasco Sampson Wilson, January 16, 2001

Description: Interview with Itasco Sampson Wilson, teacher and pianist from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Wilson talks about coming to Kerrville to teach at the "Kerrville Colored School," life for African-Americans in the area, the African-American community, and her personal life.
Date: January 16, 2001
Creator: Bacon, Dan; Bethel, Ann & Wilson, Itasco Sampson
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Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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