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Description: Book about folklore in Texas, including folk songs, ghost stories, Mexican animal tales, anecdotes about lawyers, folklore about Texas plants, riddles and miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 225.
Date: 1943
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press

[News Script: Airmen protest]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about 60 airmen, mostly Black, protesting for a shorter tour of duty at the Laredo Air Force Base.
Date: September 19, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Nixon visit]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Richard Nixon visiting a facility for holding drug smugglers in Laredo.
Date: September 21, 1972, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Nixon visit]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Richard Nixon coming to Texas.
Date: September 18, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a car crashing into a creek following rain.
Date: September 27, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire in downtown Laredo.
Date: January 4, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Political trip]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about elected officials taking a trip to Texas on the Presidential jet.
Date: October 4, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Blind-Slat Fastener.

Description: Patent for improvements in shutter attachments, in which it locks the slats in place at a desired angle. Illustration is included.
Date: October 1, 1907
Creator: Winslow, Walter W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Chain Jack.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in chain-jacks. "This invention aims to provide a chain-jack for lifting the boxes of axles, so that the bearings or brasses therefor can be readily replaced, and is designed especially for use in cases of hot boxes on railway-cars" (line 11-15).
Date: February 18, 1902
Creator: Phillips, Henry S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Composition for Removing Boiler-Scale

Description: Patent for "an extract of the plant know to botanists by the name 'Larrea Mexican,' to be used in removing boiler-scale and in preventing the reformation of the same" (lines 9-13).
Date: April 16, 1901
Creator: Pena, Benjamin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Historic Marker Application: Juan Francisco Farias Residence]

Description: Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Juan Francisco Farias Residence, in Laredo, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, floor plans, and photographs.
Date: September 16, 2009
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Partner: Texas Historical Commission

[News Script: Track]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about eight members of the Southern Methodist University track team traveling to Laredo to compete in the Border Olympics competition.
Date: March 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Automatic Electric Alarm.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and durable automatic electric alarm that allows people in house or hotel rooms, mines, ships, shops, etc. to signal for another person. The alarm is wired to a clock so it can be programmed to go off at a certain time.
Date: January 7, 1896
Creator: Stansel, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bicycle Wheel.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bicycle wheel. This design calls for an inner tire wrapped in uniformly distributed elastic bands to connect it to the outer tire. This new tire allows for the spring and comfort of pneumatic tires while rendering the pneumatic tubes of the latter obsolete.
Date: December 29, 1896
Creator: Neild, Edwin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Blind Stop.

Description: Patent for a new and improved blind-stop. This design is "to provide a cheap and simple device designed to be secured to a window-casing and be interposed between any two adjacent pivoted slats, and thus support the same and the series in an open position and against accidental closing by their own weight or by the wind" (lines 9-16). It consists in the "holder for slats of blinds, consisting of a spring-metal strip bent at its center to form an eye and opposite terminals, the latter being adap… more
Date: April 19, 1892
Creator: Deats, Wallen S. & Brown, Daniel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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