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Clothes Pin or Retainer.

Description: Patent for a clothes pin, "preferably" made from non-corrosive wire, that can be moved along a clothesline while remaining clamped to laundry. It has the ability to hold clothing of varying thicknesses.
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: Price, Thomas M. & Tillman, John W.
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Chimney-Protector.

Description: Patent for a chimney protector that is "easy and cheap to manufacture which when applied to the chimney top of an oil cooking stove will prevent the drippings or over flow from utensils placed on top of the stove from running down the side" (lines 14-18), including illustrations.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Shiller, John J.
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Chimney Holder

Description: Patent for a chimney holder. This invention is designed to provide an improvement to lamp chimneys. Illustration included.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: Sparks, Litch
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Churn.

Description: Patent for a churn that employs a reciprocating dasher in order to improve all parts of the churn and its operating mechanism.
Date: October 11, 1911
Creator: Edwards, Henry L. & Perkins, William A.
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Churn.

Description: Patent for a simple, efficient, and improved churn that thoroughly aerating and stirring the cream. It has a removable vertical dasher and two dasher cups.
Date: June 11, 1895
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
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Churn.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for operating churns and ice-cream freezers. To operate, one turns a handle, and through a series of gears, pulleys, and wheels, the cream is stirred. The churn container rotates and sits in a frame where the apparatus is fixed above it.
Date: August 11, 1896
Creator: Martin, James W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coach and Car Step.

Description: Patent for an attached coach and car step "to render it unnecessary to carry stools or stepping-boxes, as are now used to facilitate passengers to get on or off the car or coach from an extra height between the ground or depot-floor and the main bottom tread of the step, thus avoiding dangerous and fatal results from overturning of stools and boxes." (Lines 14-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 11, 1896
Creator: Taylor, Frederick A.; Farrell, Patrick W. & Quebe, Wesley S.
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Churn.

Description: Patent for a churn that can be easily disassembled and cleaned easily. The churn is a circular chamber with a tube in its center. The tube has a fan around it at the top of the chamber, and the air goes through the fan, is sucked into the tube, and is released at the bottom of the chamber in order to agitate the cream.
Date: August 11, 1896
Creator: Walker, Ben, Jr.
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Coat-Adjuster.

Description: Patent for a machine that holds a coat for a person and puts it on that person, thus avoiding the need to personally put on a coat. Pivoted arms hold on to the coat and clamps are connected to the arms which hold on to the coat.
Date: May 11, 1897
Creator: Spoon, William L.
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Churn.

Description: Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists "[i]n a working-body churn, the combination, with the churn-body having centrally-disposed turret, and the breaking-frames having their lower ends resting in suitable seats, in the bottom of the churn-body and their upper ends extended into the turret thereof, of the block having sockets and placed on the breaking-frames with its lower side projected above the turret, and the cap or lid, placed on the turret and bearing against the block… more
Date: September 11, 1883
Creator: German, Eliza
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from Wyatt C. Hedrick to I. H. Kempner, October 11, 1954]

Description: Letter from Wyatt C. Hedrick to I. H. Kempner acknowledging a news story about the Chamber of Commerce Medical Committee meeting to discuss obtaining a mental hospital for Galveston and offers his organization's support. He highlights their experience with hospital projects, including one for the Army and Air Force in Iceland and an addition to the Veterans Hospital in Galveston.
Date: October 11, 1954
Creator: Hedrick, Wyatt C.
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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