Patents Issued. Special to the Globe. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. – List of patents issued this week to Northwestern inventors, reported by Merwin, Lothrop & Johnson, patent attorneys, 910, 911 and 912 Pioneer Press building, St. Paul, Minn., and Washington, D. C.: …George E. Taylor, Austin, machine for working clay, etc… (The Saint Paul Globe, Sunday, December 19, 1897, Volume XX, Number 353, Page 9)