Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 203, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 5, 1954 Page: 11 of 11
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COTTONS & SUITINGS
89c
Formerly
$1.98 Yd. ..
reduced to yd.
WOOLENS yd. $3.95
SPECIAL wednesday only
POOOLE CLOTH
Formerly
*5-flr' y,l reduced to yd.
14.95
FELT
72 Inches
► Wide YARD
$3.95
special wednesday only
GOTTON DRESSES
20% Off
FABRIC SHOP
120 S. COURT
phone 1565
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vice before it was finished.
Even stranger is the baffling
mystery of "the stolen roari',"
|.--oh..hl ih>* mo-', fabulous watch
evei cre.tei. It wis plotted fr m
under the noses of the Gestapo in
a daring jewelry store theft in
German occupied . Paris
World War 11.
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TALKING TOYS - Mark Frinstein, 5, left, and Michael Keslau-
sky, 4, both blind, play with talking toys, manufactured in New
Yoik City. Each toy has a concealed phonograph recording that
gives off a human voice for 20 seconds or moie. An operator's
\oice asks lor "Number, pleuse" on the toy phone and the police
car says, "Calling all cais."
Swiss Hope
Watch Skill
Will HoM Trade
ZURICH (UR> Past perform
unci's indicate that President
Eisenhower's recent decision to
boost customs on Swiss timepieces
will not prevent watchmakers front
breaking through the I'. S. tariff
barrier.
Switzerland's know lmw with
unusual, complicated and ingeni
ous watches shapes up as her
major weapon in the stru"i le to
preserve the American market.
Swiss watchmaker* have per-
fected timepieces that operate on
everything from gravity, light,
temperature changes and atmos-
pheric pressures to the expansion
and contraction of the wearer's
wrist muscles.
Now they're producing a push-
button watch that automatically
corrects itself when it runs too
fast or slow. The llorological Re
search laboratory at Neuehatel is
at work on electronic experiments
that may give birth to the nu-
clear-powered timepiece of the fu-
ture.
Odd Watches
During the depression the Swiss
produced a piggy bank timepiece.
The only way to keep it running
\va« to push a coin into it. Shortly
after World War II, a patent was
taken out on a dial telephone chick
-composing a nflmber on the dial
winds tile clock.
This is a variation on a pocket
watch that was in vogue during
the last Century. The mainspring
was wound by opening the cover
to look at the face.
Some strange watches have even
stranger histories. Heath's head
watches, timepieces encased in
miniature skulls which fashion
able ladies of the late Itith cen-
tum hung from their waists, came
to be regarded as something of a
curse after an admirer unwitting
ly presented oik- to Mary, Queen
of Scots.
The famous Marie Antoinette
watch, containing a gravity oper-
ated self-winding device, the an
cestor of the modern Swiss auto-
matic, never reached the queen he-
cause she lost her head under an-
other kind of gravity operated de.
The Stolen Masterpiece
Its story starts in 1897 when an
ananyinous buyer ordered a watch
which, within a diameter of a lit
ile more than two inches, would
chime the hours, quarters and
minutes, indicate moon phases and
the rising and setting of sun us
seen from Lisbon and Rio de
Janeiro, contain a thermometer,
hygrometer, barometer and ma-
rine compass in the winding stem,
calibrate soltices and the solar aad
sideral equation of time, have a
sweep second stop, a perpetual
calendar and, on the hack, two re-
volving discs containing the 236
stars of the principal constella-
tions representing the sky as seen
on any day of the year from Lis-
bon and Rio de Janeiro. It also
had to tell time with chronometer
accuracy.
Swiss* watchmaker Charles Pi-
guet designed and executed the
complex movement. Only the Ba-
sancon jeweler through whom the
watch was ordered knew the buy-
er's identity. Photographs anil
drawings, which still exist, were
made before the watch was deliv-
ered.
One winter day 44 years later, a
man brought] an amazing watch
subsequently identified as the PI
guet marvel, to a fashionable Paris
jewelry shop for cleaning and cer-
tain revisions. The . work took sev-1
era) weeks. Afterwards the shop
proudly placed the watch in its
display window to await the own,
er's return.
An admiring crowd soon gather-,
ed and a short time later "Germari
Gestapo officers arrived on the
scene. Rumors spread that the
Nazis intended to appropriate the
watch-as a gift Tor Hitler.
All that is known is that during
the 1 to-2 lunch hour that day,
with the streets almost deserted, a:
rock was heaved through the shop
window. The Piguet marvel was
the only thing taken. It has never
hecn recovered.
Save time in ironing by hang-
ing clothes properly after they're
washed. Shake the items as yott
hang them, and hang them
straight. Smooth the clothes care-
fully as you take them from the
line.
d'llld ... Sl.lClik ... Itl.AdK..
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Telephone Set
$15-95
It's dramatic ... il's new . . . and wonderfully versa-
tile. Extremely strong yet light and airy in scale.
Wrought iron pieces have teamed with modern furn-
iture hand-in-glme and prove delightful constrast-
ing accents. Shown here are hut a few of the big
selection we have.
JEWEL" h M Im
Smokwr
,95
BOOK RACK
Other Pieces Net Shown: ■
WROUGHT IRON WASTE BASKET
In Brass Grillwork Frame 1^.95
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Only
Irish Lighthouse
System Is Electric
DUBLIN <U.K>—In less than a
century, Ireland has equipped her
self with a coast light service sec-
ond to none—and still the drive to
wards perfection continues.
It is estimated that in less than
u year, all the main lighthouses
around Ireland's coast will be elec
trically operated. Yet, it was only
89 years ago that he first high
power lighthouse light in the world
was erected at Baily, off the south
west Dublin coast.
Up to then, high caudlepower
lighthouse lights were unknown,
the most powerful in use being
four-wick oil burners of 240 can
dlepower. A Dublin inventor, J. R.
Wighani, made a 108-jet gas-burn
er, and, by focusing a new system
of superimposed lens, he produced
a light of 2,923 standard candle-
power. This new system was in
stalled in the Baily lighthouse in
1865. and five years later the
world's first high power intermit
tent light was erected on Wicklow
Head lighthouse.
It was only a short time after
ward that Ireland set another rec-
ord in erecting the world's first
Group flashing light at he Rock
"bill, north of Dublin.
The Irish lights commission four
years ago introduced radio-tele
phony into all'the. lighthouses und
lightships "arotiird'vthe coast, en-
abling outlying "stations" as. thev
are called,'lo summon medical as-
sistance or to report ships -or
planes in distress. This service has
proved its vrort'h'.'iif speedy rescue
planning for drifting or sinking
steamers off the coast.
. The old system of rock -t or gun-
firing to' attract .attention has been
discarded. The fiAO men protecting
the mariner around the Irish coast
can now keep in touch with their
families-r-an invaluable psycholog
ical aid -when," reliefs are' delayed
TUESDAY, OCT. 5, 1954— Bm-kenridge American—7-A
Table far Ciwt
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Beautiful occasions achieve a new elegance when graced by Reed, ft
Barton's sterling flatware, "Francis First." Here is fruitage renais-
sance in its full grandeur ... an extra-heavy sterling, each piece
individually carved wiih special motifs. The table here is set for the
club luncheon with its garland centerpiece so like the garlands of
carved silver which adorn the sttrlhig. />" 1.. ,, r... -■ .
by storm.
The latest installations incorpor-
ate all the newest inventions in
automatic electric installation# and
have been installed in stations off
the County Down and Dublin
coasts. Skilled engineers and
craftsmen in a small unpreten-
tious looking factory in llublic
turn out the beacons and buoy
lights, and the national electricity
undertaking supplies the power. •
Whether or not you consider
LiiiiI Cardigan a hero for leaping
the "Charge of the Light Bri-
gade," he certainly knew hpw'io
relax. When that battle Was oyer
he headed back to his ".vaclit and
had a bath. Now this may be an
extreme example, but whenever it
seems us though you've Used up all
your energy at some fatiguing
task, try taking a nice refreshing
bath. You'll feel like a new per-
son—and revived enough to tack-
le some other activity or fun.
Remember that all the perfum-
es of the world aren't nearly as
attractive as the sweet, refreshing
scent that comes from skin just
scrubbed with soap and water.
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perfectly it performs.
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