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Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-285

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: What is the legal authority for the creation of Independent School Districts at the Gainesville State School, the Gatesville State School and the Colored Girls Training School at Crockett, Texas, since Opinion No. WW-251 does not define these schools … more
Date: October 24, 1957
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from Paul Osterhout to Osterhout Family, October 23, 1881]

Description: Letter from Paul Osterhout to Osterhout family. Paul wrote his family to inform them that he received the coat they sent and to tell them about his job at the train station. He included information about an assault that happened at the station and a lantern he stole to use on the way home.
Date: October 23, 1881
Creator: Osterhout, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[News Script: Houston fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire that took place at the Globe Discount City Building in Houston.
Date: October 17, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Houston County

Description: Cadastral map of Houston County, Texas in the Piney Woods region. There are notes in different colored inks. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date: October 1868
Creator: Stremme, C. C. & Lungkwitz, Herman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Texas General Land Office

[Letter from parolee/inmate to T. N. Carswell - October 8, 1955]

Description: A letter addressed to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas from a parolee/inmate in Huntsville, Texas, dated October 8, 1955. Subject No. 108,345 discusses the decision made by the Board regarding his parole having been turned down and advises Carswell of the decision he made to make the best of his time in prison. The reverse side includes notes handwritten by Carswell indicating that on December 14, 1955 he answered the correspondence from Subject No. 108,345 on October 8, 1955. He talked to … more
Date: October 8, 1955
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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[News Clip: Rice-Texas]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the University of Texas football team playing against the Rice University team at the Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas.
Date: October 26, 1958
Duration: 3 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Spring Bed Bottom.

Description: Patent for a new and improved spring bed-bottom. This design utilizes a new method of coiling the wire so that only one wire may be used to make up all of the springs. By moving diagonally from one end of one spring to the end of another, this design eliminates the possibility of losing any individual spring.
Date: October 18, 1881
Creator: Eichelberger, Henry. H. C. & Bruner, Hilary Wentz
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a seed-planter, of a main frame having side beams, the standard secured midway between said beams at their forward ends, and provided at its lower end with a shovel and a presser located immediately in rear of said shovel, the hopper supported on said side beams, and having its planting mechanism arranged to drop the seed directly in the furrow formed by the shovel and presser, [and] wheel journaled in the si… more
Date: October 13, 1885
Creator: Gardner, Robert J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Means for Controlling the Flow of Navigable Rivers or Other Waters.

Description: Patent for a new means of controlling the waters. This design "is to remove or prevent the formation of sand-bars at the mouths of harbors elsewhere, calculated to obstruct navigation; also, to prevent the overflow of navigable rivers and the breaking of levees or destruction of jetties. [The] invention consists in a novel means of accomplishing these and other like ends by mechanical forces applied to increase the natural current or outflow of the navigable water toward its outlet or the ocean… more
Date: October 1, 1889
Creator: Coult, Joseph C.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow-Fender.

Description: Patent for a plow fender, which allows a plow to be operated next to plant rows without injuring them and deflects rocks and other obstacles.
Date: October 22, 1907
Creator: Skidmore, John C.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bed Attachment for Invalids.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bed attachment for bed-ridden persons. This design "consists, principally, of a frame, hinged between the side boards of the bedstead, said frame having a removable seat and adapted to be brought to a vertical position for supporting the [bed-ridden person] in a sitting position. The invention also consists in the construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 10-16).
Date: October 11, 1881
Creator: Brown, Joshua Perry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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