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Boll-Weevil Exterminator. (open access)

Boll-Weevil Exterminator.

Patent for a boll-weevil exterminator comprised of a wheeled frame with a tank containing insect poison and a means to gradually distribute the poison through a field. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 1, 1914
Creator: Griffin, Willis F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Spray (open access)

Cotton Spray

Patent for Cotton Spray. "The present invention relates to spraying devices for destroying insect life which infests plants. The device is primarily intended for spraying cotton plants, and is so constructed and arranged as to travel over the plants, and to spray the said plants from opposite sides" (lines 8-15).
Date: September 27, 1912
Creator: Walker, Walter
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spark and Dust Arrester for Cars (open access)

Spark and Dust Arrester for Cars

Patent for prevention of sparks and dust from entering vehicles.
Date: September 4, 1900
Creator: Stanley, May
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Northwest Texas, September 2011 (open access)

Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Northwest Texas, September 2011

List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Northwest Texas area.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Primary Care Case Management
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Stretching Fence-Wires. (open access)

Apparatus for Stretching Fence-Wires.

Patent for a portable manually operated apparatus that is designed to stretch wire-fence strands at right angles to tighten the full length of the strand without "kinking or twisting the fence-strand or driving staples or analagous fastenings into the fence-post" (lines 16-21) while the fence strand is tight. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 14, 1897
Creator: Pyeatt, Jessie Newton.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Topographic Reservoir Map #1]

Topographic map of the area around a reservoir drawn in black and yellow ink. According to the caption in the upper-left corner, "Topographic map of a reservoir site at the juncture of Kaiser Creek and North Pecan Bayou about nine miles south west of Baird, Callahan County, Texas." Scale 1:12,000
Date: September 1, 1934
Creator: Hobbs, Oscar Knox
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Topographic Reservoir Map #2]

Topographic map of the area around a reservoir drawn in color on a blueprint background. According to the caption in the upper-left corner, "Topographic map of a reservoir site at the juncture of Kaiser Creek and North Pecan Bayou about nine miles south west of Baird, Callahan County, Texas." Scale 1:12,000
Date: September 1, 1934
Creator: Hobbs, Oscar Knox
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History