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[News Script: Convention]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about legislator delegates to the Texas constitutional convention who may get an opportunity to vote separately on the new state charter and four controversial sidebar issues which are apparently holding up approval of the entire package.
Date: July 12, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Hoof-Cleaning Tool.

Description: Patent for an improved farriers tool that cleans animals' hoofs that is a specially designed hook. It works quickly, thoroughly, and easily.
Date: July 25, 1893
Creator: Jenner, Robert C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Girth-Rigging for Side-Saddles.

Description: Patent for girth-rigging for side-saddles that secure the saddles so the saddles only move when the horse does. It has an extended "saddle-tree so as to produce shoulders, the same underlying the saddle-seat at its front and in supporting upon its shoulders and also upon the tree in rear of the cantle-girth suspension-straps that are continuous" (lines 24-29).
Date: July 9, 1895
Creator: Padgitt, Jesse D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horse-Check.

Description: Patent for an automatic that prevents horses from starting off when left unattended. It detects when the vehicle begins moving and pulls back on the reins.
Date: July 21, 1896
Creator: Lee, Charles
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Equalizer

Description: Patent for an equalizer for horse harnesses that equalizes the draft between horses pulling a vehicle.
Date: July 2, 1912
Creator: McNatt, Daniel W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Riding-Saddle.

Description: Patent for a riding-saddle with a "short rigid tree, which constitutes the front or forked portion of the saddle, and [the inventor] construct[s] the body and cantle of pieces of thick but duly flexible leather" (lines 21-25). This makes the saddle more comfortable for both horse and rider.
Date: July 16, 1895
Creator: Padgitt, Jesse D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horse-Detacher

Description: Patent for a horse detacher for use on wagons that prevents accidental separation.
Date: July 23, 1912
Creator: Backermann, Henry G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shaft-Tug.

Description: Patent for a shaft tug for horse harnesses, which allows one side of the harness to be attached at a time.
Date: July 12, 1910
Creator: Henshaw, Fred M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Collar-Fastener.

Description: Patent for providing a durable structure for fasteners to be used on horse collars for effectiveness and quick manipulation. Illustrations are provided.
Date: July 20, 1915
Creator: Wallace, William F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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