THE DOWNFALL OF A HUMBUG.
The day of the "cheap Swisp watch" hassrorie by. 1 ; It ! is ill-fitting— roughly made-, nofc Interchangeable, and when once , put of order, really, if ever, susceptible* of satisfactory repairs.' Tire country has bejen flooded. with those implements, but, gigantic as this importation has be?n, they must yield to the superior merits' of 'American watches. ■ The Tery. first wafcchiproduced by .the "Waterbury "Watch Company sounded the death knell of the Swiss atrocities. In 188!Hhe battlehad been ,won, apd the dwys of , unreliable timepieces . practically Y numbered 1 .: The modern David of American genius- and nccuracy has, by for co .of intrinsic merit,, caused the downfall of the Swiss Philistine of cheap nosological humbug, y -•>;<•-'■--• ''. • ■ .- '"> ■'•'•■ ■■• ■■■"' r-
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Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1003, 13 October 1893, Page 7
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120THE DOWNFALL OF A HUMBUG. Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1003, 13 October 1893, Page 7
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