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Tool for Sinking Wells.

Description: Patent for improvements in tools for sinking artesian wells, that the tool “will perform its duty under all circumstance and excavate as well in hard materials as in soft earth, as quicksand and cavey formations, and will not have its functions interfered with when an insufficient flow of water is encountered.” (Lines 17-22) Illustration is included.
Date: June 16, 1891
Creator: Stephenson, James D.
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Slicer.

Description: Patent for an improved kitchen slicer with "a plurality of parallel blades which are secured to a stock or handle so that the entire cutting edges thereof will be arranged beneath the stock or handle and can be readily used for cutting bread, meats and vegetables" (lines 14-19), with illustrations.
Date: February 16, 1915
Creator: McPherson, Patty
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