In Switzerland, they are making clocks which do not need hands and faces. The clock merely stands in the hall, and you press a button in its stomach, when, by means of the phonographic internal arrangements; • it calls out ‘.'Half-past six”mf' T‘Twehitytlireo minutes to eleven,” as the case may be. A big burly man of Balmain Was once overheard to exclaim, “Laxo-Tonic I took . And I never fools crook, < If I does, I shall take ’em again.” LAXO-TONIC PILLS, lD'Jd and 1/6.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2445, 9 March 1909, Page 2
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82Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2445, 9 March 1909, Page 2
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