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Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved car coupler, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 25, 1899
Creator: Smith, Thomas Henry
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CONVERTIBLE CAR.

Description: Patent for improved convertible cars pertaining to railroad rolling-stock, that can be converted from freight-car into a box-car or cattle-car. This invention is tighter in corners when serving as a box-car, to prevent leakage of transports.
Date: May 22, 1906
Creator: Cothern, John K.
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Air-Brake Coupling

Description: Patent for an air brake coupling for use on trains that opens the air valves when the coupling is attached.
Date: June 20, 1911
Creator: Winton, Robert A.
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Body Stretcher

Description: Patent for a body stretcher. This invention is for exercising and stretching muscles. Illustration included.
Date: March 21, 1905
Creator: Seidler, William Wilson
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[News Clip: Cops funeral]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 5, 1980, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 35 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Apparatus for Hoisting Bales on Wagons.

Description: Patent for a new and improved bale hoister. This design "relates to apparatus for loading and unloading wagons, and it has for its object to provide an apparatus of this character which shall be cheap and simple in its construction, effective in its operation, strong and durable, an apparatus by the use of which a wagon may be quickly loaded and unloaded" (lines 9-15).
Date: May 12, 1885
Creator: Lamb, George Washington
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Car-coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved car coupling of the Janney type that increases "efficiency in service and enable[s] an operator at the side of the train to readily and with safety set the improved car-coupling to disconnect it from another of the same style" (lines 11-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1897
Creator: Smith, Thomas Henry.
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[Check from Levi Perryman to L. B. Hord, November 11, 1914]

Description: Check from Levi Perryman to L.B Hord for $5.50. The check is from the First National Bank in Saint Jo, Texas. The back of the check is endorsed by a L.B Hord and John Hudson. There are also two stamps on the back of the check. One is from First National Bank in Bowie, Texas on November 17, 1914. The other stamp is from Lindsay National Bank in Gainesville, Texas on November 17, 1914.
Date: November 11, 1914
Creator: Perryman, Levi
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[Bank Note for Bob Perryman, August 31, 1907]

Description: Bank Note for Bob Perryman, E.M. Stallworth, E.W.Perryman, for the amount of $530. Due on February 29, 1908 to the First National Bank of Bowie, Texas. On back it mentions on March 3, 1908 Bob Perryman paid $182 to the Bank. It is also signed by J.C. Phillip Prash.
Date: August 31, 1907
Creator: First National Bank (Bowie, Tex.)
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Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3803

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Can the Stoneburg School District tax the city of Bowie and the persons that own club houses surrounding the lake belonging to the city of Bowie?
Date: August 21, 1941
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
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