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[News Script: Jail break]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about two prisoners that broke out of the Van Zandt County Jail.
Date: August 25, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Prisoners captured]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about two men who escaped from the Van Zandt County Jail being recaptured in Dallas.
Date: August 26, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Building Construction

Description: Patent for metal beams used in building construction that have perforated plates to allow the passage of concrete through the plate when the metal piece is embedded in concrete thus strengthening the attachment of the metal and the concrete.
Date: May 14, 1907
Creator: Keyser, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn-Planter.

Description: Patent relating to "a novel corn-planter, and has for its object the production of a simple, durable, and efficient planting attachment which may be applied to an ordinary plow and which when so applied will automatically effect the distribution of corn or other grain at desired intervals" (lines 12-18).
Date: December 21, 1897
Creator: Ellis, William Wesley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Compound Tool

Description: Patent for a compound tool. This invention consists of multiple tools in one. Illustration included.
Date: April 26, 1904
Creator: Highsmith, Aubrey O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 68, July 1964 - April, 1965

Description: The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 549.
Date: 1965
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Partner: Texas State Historical Association

Bee-Hive.

Description: Patent for a "new and useful improvement in bee-hives" (lines 5-6), with instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: McCullar, John Jackson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn Planter and Dropper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved seed planter or dropper. This design utilizes a hopper, a shaft provided with cups, a bevel having a countersunk opening provided with a recess, a gate hinged in said recess and held in contact with the cups on the shaft by a spring, and a concave partition fitting the periphery of the shaft, all constructed and arranged in a novel way (lines 68-75). Additionally, this design utilizes a wheel, the motion of which dispenses the seed.
Date: June 28, 1881
Creator: Dawson, John Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Composition for Concrete Tombstones.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful composition of matter for concrete tombstones and a process for manufacturing the same whereby a perfectly white substantial rock will be produced that will be very durable, will not be liable to peeling, cracking, or turning dark, but will bleach out in the weather and become very solid, so as to form a permanent and substantial tombstone." (Lines 10-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1896
Creator: Belcher, Jeff D. & Hendley, Marion J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6357

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Can the money allocated Van Zandt County from the Board of County and District Board Indebtedness be lawfully placed in the Road and Bridge Fund of said county? And can said money be used to pay obligations of Van Zandt County for machinery purchas… more
Date: January 31, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Iron bridge reservoir]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the construction of the Iron Bridge Reservoir on the Sabine River.
Date: October 27, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Bagging Strecher.

Description: Patent for a bagging stretcher that provides a device to be "associated with the baling press for drawing taut the bagging which is used to cover a bale".
Date: July 7, 1914
Creator: Davis, William R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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