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[Letter from Matilda Dodd and Bettie Franklin to Mary Moore, January 2, 1876]

Description: A letter to Mary Moore from her mother, Matilda Dodd, and her sister, Bettie Franklin, on January 2, 1876. In the letter, Dodd and Franklin tell Moore about their Christmas gatherings and discuss the warm weather. Franklin mentions that many of Moore's friends and family are talking of moving to Texas. Dodd and Franklin mention many of Moore's family and friends, including Dinky McGee, the Donnel family, the Sporer family, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Ireland, the Grangers, old Mr. Simon Elliott, … more
Date: January 2, 1876
Creator: Dodd, Matilda & Franklin, Bettie
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Improvement in Churns

Description: Patent for a geared mechanism to attach to existing churns to aid in the production of cream into butter. Illustrations include front and side elevations.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: Gray, Whitley F.
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Improvement in Churns.

Description: Patent for a better churn which makes butter faster, releases butter from the churn more easily, and is simple to create and use. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 1, 1878
Creator: McConnell, John A. & McConnell, William V.
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Improvement in Apparatus for Preserving Meat, &c.

Description: Patent for "an improved apparatus for use in fumigating substances used as food; and also for impregnating water with sulphurous-acid gas, for the purpose of preserving such substances by the antiseptic quality of sulphur" (lines 9-14). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 15, 1878
Creator: Ames, Theodore George
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Improvement in Coffee-Pots

Description: Patent for the design of an improved coffee and tea pot with an internal water reservoir, dripping cup for coffee or tea, gauge for water level, and two separate valves for the hot water and resulting coffee or tea. Includes illustration of both a sectional and horizontal elevation of coffee-pot design.
Date: June 27, 1876
Creator: Sherwood, Willis H.
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Steam-Cooking Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a steam-cooking apparatus, "in which the heat of steam in pipes or tubular jackets is made to cook food without the direct action of fire by radiation, conduction, or convection" (lines 8-11).
Date: October 29, 1878
Creator: Curtin, Martin
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Ice-Making Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an ice maker that more effectively handles the chemicals used to freeze water. Use of a more strategically placed condenser keeps steam and liquids separate.
Date: March 25, 1879
Creator: Lee, Charles B.
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Improvement in Bottle-Stoppers.

Description: Patent for "an improvement in the bottle-stopper of Westel E. Hawkins, patented under date of August 4, 1874, and numbered 153,769" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
Date: June 8, 1875
Creator: Shaw, Michael W.
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Improvement in Beer-Refrigerators.

Description: Patent for "an improved refrigerator for cooling lager-beer in the keg, and keep it cool for a long time with a small quantity of ice" (lines 15-18) including illustrations.
Date: August 17, 1875
Creator: Bohart, John N.
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Improvement in Refining and Ageing Liquors.

Description: Patent for improvement in refining and ageing liquors, including an illustration. The process includes expelling air from distilled liquors, heating them to a boiling point and then cooling them in a waterbath, through the use of a closed, air-tight vessel surrounded by an open water-vessel.
Date: May 10, 1870
Creator: Gilman, Samuel H.
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