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[News Script: Hearne official] (open access)

[News Script: Hearne official]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the bookkeeper with the city of Hearne whose public statements led to the discovery of a scandal involving city money which has been fired by the city manager E. C Suggs.
Date: March 30, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hearne indictments] (open access)

[News Script: Hearne indictments]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about charges of misapplication of city funds and conspiracy which were levelled against a half dozen city government leader at Hearne.
Date: March 28, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hearne indictments] (open access)

[News Script: Hearne indictments]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Robertson county grand jury who returned indictments against most leaders in city government at Hearne Texas.
Date: March 28, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Poage] (open access)

[News Script: Poage]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Poage, a thirty- eight year old veteran in Congress who asked for the probe- concerning a 12 thousand dollar check which was issued by the city in 1971.
Date: March 2, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Poage] (open access)

[News Script: Poage]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Waco congressman W. R Bob Poage who asked the U. S justice department for an investigation to clear the air over an allegation that Hearne city officials paid him for helping them obtain federal aid.
Date: March 2, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Hearne] (open access)

[News Script: Hearne]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Hearne mayor Jake Abrams who has sent a telegram to U. S representative Bob Poage of Texas apologizing for what Abrams said was misstatement linking a 12 thousand dollar check to Poage 1972 campaign.
Date: March 8, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Boll Weevil Catcher. (open access)

Boll Weevil Catcher.

Patent for an insect-catching device with collection receptacles that operates on skids for better maneuverability in fields.
Date: March 30, 1920
Creator: Stukes, John Marion
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grass Destroyer (open access)

Grass Destroyer

Patent for mechanical grass destroying equipment. This machine produces the results of harrowers, diggers and plows to destroy unwanted plants such as Bermuda and Jackson grass by "sifting the earth off their roots and dropping it back on the ground, and collecting the tops and the roots." (lines 15-17).
Date: March 2, 1920
Creator: Coker, Alvin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Wreck] (open access)

[News Script: Wreck]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: March 9, 1970, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Train derailment] (open access)

[News Script: Train derailment]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: March 9, 1970, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Train derailment] (open access)

[News Script: Train derailment]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: March 9, 1970, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Record of payment for commissioner fees] (open access)

[Record of payment for commissioner fees]

Record of payment from Michael Reed to Sterling C. Robertson for the commissioner fees on two leagues of land.
Date: March 21, 1835
Creator: Robertson, Sterling C.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
BRIDLE-BIT (open access)

BRIDLE-BIT

Patent for an improved bridle bit for veterinary services, including illustrations.
Date: March 31, 1914
Creator: Mateer, Wilbur N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Lee Mosty, March 9, 1998 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert Lee Mosty, March 9, 1998

Interview with Robert Lee Mosty, World War II veteran and owner/operator of a plant nursery in Center Point, Texas. Mr. Mosty tells stories from his service in WWII, including how his unit was one of the first to meet liberated prisoners of war, as well as how he was wounded and taken prisoner. He also discusses studying at A&M, his work for the National Park Service, and running a plant nursery in the 1920s.
Date: March 9, 1998
Creator: Witt, Gerald & Mosty, Robert Lee
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Robertson County Courthouse]

Copy negative of a postcard with an image of Robertson County Courthouse in Franklin, Texas from the early twentieth century.
Date: March 29, 1973
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for a clothes pin consisting of a single piece of bent wire.
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: Stewart, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Machine (open access)

Automatic Weighing-Machine

Patent for "an automatic weighing-machine possessing simplicity, accuracy, and capable of continuous and automatic operation" (lines 13-16).
Date: March 12, 1901
Creator: Perry, Frank S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Machine (open access)

Automatic Weighing-Machine

Patent for new weighing machine and hopper dispensing cotton-seed meal, including illustrations
Date: March 12, 1901
Creator: Perry, Frank S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press. (open access)

Hay-Press.

Patent for a hay press, which can form the hay bale without much pressure being exerted by the operators of the machine.
Date: March 15, 1910
Creator: Guynes, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin (open access)

Cotton Gin

Patent for cotton gin. Illustration included.
Date: March 7, 1905
Creator: Fuller, James T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a new "machine for chopping surplus cotton or corn out of the rows or drills, leaving it in hills at the desired distance apart" (lines 8-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1886
Creator: Farley, John C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Tank. (open access)

Oil Tank.

Patent for a new and improved oil tank. This design "relates to improvements in oil-tanks, and has for its object to prevent the waste of oil when emptying the can or vessel in which it is received from the factory, and to avoid the odor arising from the oil, and also to prevent evaporation after the oil has been introduced into the tank" (lines 9-15).
Date: March 24, 1885
Creator: Fisher, Charles A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Muzzle-Yolk. (open access)

Muzzle-Yolk.

Patent for a cattle-yolk that stops the animals from jumping or breaking through fences. The yolk "will bind upon him, thus effectually stopping the animal from any further effort" (lines 12-15) if it tries to jump or break through a fence.
Date: March 10, 1896
Creator: Courtney, Thomas Lafayette
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fish-Trap. (open access)

Fish-Trap.

Patent for an improved fish-trap consisting of a net drawn in the rear of two boats with illustrations.
Date: March 26, 1889
Creator: Green, John E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History