Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 36
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, September 25, 1907
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Town Clock Slips an Eccentric.
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       People residing within hearing distance of the town clock were startled in their peaceful slumbers Sunday morning by the continuous striking of the clock.
       The continuity of the strokes began about the hour of four and kept up until eight when the janitor, G. P. Collier appeared on the scene and adjusted the machinery of the town's timepiece.
       Opinions differed as to the cause of the peculiar actions of the clock.  Some facetious people attributed it to the heavy comedy of the Rabbit Foot Minstrels which held forth on the court house square Saturday night.  Others of a more scientific turn of mind, ascribed the phenomena to the passage of the equinoctial period, but the most generally accepted theory is that the machinery of the clock merley slipped an eccentric.

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