Eureka Reporter | 1904-08-19 | Page 7 | All Wanted Noisy Clocks

ALL WANTED NOISY CLOCKS manufacturer had to meet demand of savages A clockmaker discovered that a rival was sending out large stocks 0 cheap clocks to the heart of africa and doing good business with them he spent a large sum in making bet ter clocks and shipped thousands ot them to the same market strange to say his sales were small although his rival turning out cheap and in accurate timepiece was selling all he could make finally he found a key to the mystery savages like noise the clocks made by the first exporter had a particularly loud and eive tick his competitor bad made a better clock but it was almost noiseless and the savages would have none of it the next cargo of clocks which the maker shipped to the guinea coast ticked louder than anything ever heard there and they sold like pink lemonade at acus