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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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Hat Display Rack.

Description: Patent for an improved hat display rack that can display a full line of hats. Illustrations and instructions included.
Date: March 21, 1916
Creator: Williams, Martin A.
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Insect-Exterminator

Description: Patent for a device exterminating boll weevils and other insects, which infest cotton and other crops. The device produces new means for producing fumigating gas, and its delivery mechanism. An improved driving mechanism for the device, which connects to a blower, is also part of the patent.
Date: May 30, 1916
Creator: Rawls, Theophilus M. & Miller, Robert A.
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Peanut-Harvester

Description: Patent for peanut-harvester to plow vines from the ground and feed them into the rear of the machine to catch the peanuts that drop from the vines. This more easily separates the peanuts from the other foreign matter.
Date: August 8, 1916
Creator: Winters, John William & Winters, Calvin C.
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