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Show ANGIENTJIMEPIEGE' WATCH OVER 300 YEAR8 OLD OWNED BY CHICAGOAN. Said to Have Been Made Without the Aid of Machinery Still Ticking Olf Minutes with Commend, able Accuracy. Chicago. Ono of tho most remark' able heirlooms In the possession of any Chlcagoan Is a watch made mora than 300 years ago In England and brought to this country In 1C34. It Is owned by ttcuben S. Price, a retired traveling man, living at 76C East Seventy-second street. Although this Is tho sixth generation genera-tion of tho family In America that has owned tho watch, It Is still recording faithfully Father Tlmo's hours and minutes with tho most commendable accuracy. Tho watch was mado near tho closo of the fifteenth century, and thorn Is an lndlsputnblo record of Its ownership owner-ship from tho'ycnr 1634, when It was in tho possession of Mordccal Price, who was among tho very earliest settlors set-tlors In Anno Arundel county, Maryland, Mary-land, The watch was handed down from fathor to son from Mordccnl tho first to his son Mordccnl, and his son's son Mordccal, tho latter bequeathing It to his son Elijah, who In turn Intrusted In-trusted it Into tho hands of his son John K., tho fathor of tho present possessor of tho relic. Tho various pwnors and tho dates of their acquisition of tho watch are cngravod upon the back as follows: I was brought to fit. Mary's, Maryland, In IB) by Montreal rrlco. 1K2 lila son, Mordccnl I'rlce, Jr. 1723 Ills son, Morilecnl 1'rlcc, Jr., Jr. 17S1 his son, Klljah I'rlce. .18.10 lila ion John K. I'rlce. 1863 111 on. ricubon S. I'rlce. Continuing the custom from tho first Mordccal down through six generations, gen-erations, Houbcn 8. Price will noma J7SI W fat. |