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Apparatus for Destroying Insects.

Description: Patent for an apparatus used to kill insectects, particularly boll weevils on cotton blooms. The apparatus is attached to a wagon which is driven through a cotton field, and the device knocks off the boll weevil eggs and then suctions them into the device and destroys them by fire.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Morrow, James Morton
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[News Script: Maid of Cotton]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of three Texas girls are among the 20 are hoping to be crowned the 1974 Maid of Cotton at Memphis, Tennessee.
Date: December 26, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[Photograph of Cotton Bales on Wagons]

Description: Copy negative of early twentieth century wagons stacked with cotton bales. In the foreground, two wagons are hitched to a team of mules and a man is sitting on the bales in the front of the wagon, driving; behind them, a man is standing on the bales in a third wagon, also hitched to a partially-visible animal.
Date: March 18, 1974
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[News Script: Maid of Cotton]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of three Texas girls who are among 20 are hoping to be crowned the 1974 Maid of Cotton in Memphis, Tennessee.
Date: December 26, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Twin Cultivating-Harrow.

Description: Patent for a twin cultivating harrow with an especially designed coupling that connects the harrow frames. It is adjustable and is meant to cultivate corn, cotton, and similar crops.
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Waldrip, Thomas A.
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper, which can operate in uneven soil and attaches to a cultivator.
Date: July 28, 1908
Creator: Allen, John W.
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Attachment for Vehicle-Brakes.

Description: Patent for "an extension-handle for the manipulating-levers of vehicle-brakes" (lines 9-10). This invention was designed especially for vehicles with extra side-boards, so the brakes can be employed as conveniently as possible while the driver would normally have a hard time reaching the brake-lever.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Edwards, Joshua H. & Edwards, Willie W.
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