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Show TJovel Qocls PerSorsns Rlnny Tasks SPARTANBURG, S. C. Made about 1880, a four-faced clock still licks away here keeping time, charting movements of the moon nd sun. and incidentally telling inie keeping track of days and months all on a master wheel rotating ro-tating once every 13 years. The clock was the creation of Daniel Dan-iel Davis, who used crude tools to tut its wheels, gears and cabinet in ftis small cabin in the Carolina mountains. One face records 'he ?4 houi progress of the sun. Another charts the course and phases of the moon A third tells the day and month even allowing for the extra leap yeai day. The fourth face performs f clock's ordinary timekeeping duty R. O. Davis, grandson of the skilled maker, now owns the novel gadget, which holds a place of honoi in his home. |