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Insect-Destroyer.

Description: Patent for an insect destroyer specifically for use in removing boll weevils from cotton plants by shaking them off the plants and sucking them up with suction tubes which deliver them to a crushing mechanism.
Date: February 18, 1908
Creator: Peek, Joseph S.
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Thimble.

Description: Patent for an improved design of thimble which includes a needle-threader and a thread-cutter that can be used without removal of the thimble from the finger through the design of metal cone shapes as part of the thimble's design.
Date: November 21, 1905
Creator: Huntington, Spencer Hinsdale
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Surgical Instrument.

Description: Patent for a tonsilotome/enucleator for cutting the tonsils out during a tonsillectomy without injuring the pillars.
Date: August 3, 1909
Creator: Combs, Robert L.
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Medicated Salt Rock

Description: Patent for "improved medicated salt rock to be used for keeping cattle, horses, and other live stock in good condition, to serve as a tonic and blood-purifier, also to expel worms from the stomach and intestines, and to eradicate ticks and vermin" (lines 10-15).
Date: April 23, 1901
Creator: Green, Charles O; Wickline, William P. & Eaton, James B.
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Medicated Salt Brick.

Description: Patent for a formula for a livestock salt brick that purports improve animal health. The formula includes salt, clay, sulfur, saltpeter, copperas, nux vomica, and santonin.
Date: February 24, 1903
Creator: Eaton, James B.
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Car-Mover

Description: Patent for a car mover designed to move train cars along the tracks and sidings. Illustrations included.
Date: June 30, 1908
Creator: Peek, Joseph S.
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