Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1913 — Huge Electric Clock. [ARTICLE]

Huge Electric Clock.

To advertise a Boston company, a large electrio sign has been set up in that city measuring over all 64 feet in width by 60ft in height. The sign contains a dock with a dial 84 feet In diameter, at each side of which are columns studded with electric lamps. The, minute hand of the clock Is 18Vh feet long and weighs 488 pounds, while the hour hand is 14 feet 4 inches long, weighing 888 pounds. The total weight of the structure Is flftsea tons. Altogether there are <,2|B lamps [used In the sign.