Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — One-Hand Watches. [ARTICLE]

One-Hand Watches.

The first English watches had weights and were used as pocket clocks. They had only one hand, and required to be wound up twice a day. The dials were of silver and brass, while the cases were unglazed, but opened at the back and front, and were four or five inches in diameter—about the size of a common desert plate. The State of Illinois is one of the wealthiest of the Western States, its valuation reaching $786,616,394. The three sections of Tennessee—East, West and Middle— are valued by the assessor at $228,154,432. Almost every one believes he has a monopoly of faithfulness.