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[Letter from Truett Latimer to Delphia Price, February 1, 1957]

Description: Letter from Truett Latimer to Delphia Price discussing a petition from the Abilene Council for Retarded Children, which Price signed. Latimer writes that he met with the Texas Association of Retarded Children about their requests and that he will support Senator Aikin's bill to amend the Gilmer-AIken law to cover trainable children. He also states that he is aware of the State Board of Hospitals and Special Schools' financial need and he will help increase the board's appropriation, and that he… more
Date: February 1, 1957
Creator: Latimer, Truett
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Annual Report of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America: 1963

Description: Annual report submitted by the Girl Scouts of the United States of America to Congress describing highlights from 1963, activities, services, public relations, finances, organizational leadership, and other information about scouting programs.
Date: April 1, 1964
Creator: Girl Scouts of the United States of America
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Press.

Description: Patent for a cotton press that has a stationary plate and a steam or hydraulic powered plate and produces a continuous folded bat. This invention combines "advantages of the quick but not extremely powerful pressure of the ordinary steam press, and the powerful but slow pressure of the hydraulic press" (lines 14-17).
Date: August 1, 1893
Creator: McCutcheon, Joshua L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stump-Puller.

Description: Patent for a stump puller consisting of a "frame adapted to be secured to the rear end of a wagon" (lines 15-16) with a drum mounted on the frame. The drum is secured by one end of a cable, the other end of the cable "adapted to be secured to a stump, a ratchet-wheel, pawl, and lever adapted to operate said drum" (lines 18-20).
Date: September 1, 1903
Creator: Hawkins, Fletcher M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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