Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty First Year - Number 91
Marlin, Texas, Monday, August 17, 1931
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MARLIN CLOCKS AFFECTED
APPARENTLY by TEMBLOR
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One Stopped at 5:45 a.m. And Oth-
ers Ceased Running Later
In Day.
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       Apparently affected by the earthquake felt here early Sunday, a number of clocks in the city stopped.
       Peter Bayer's clock stopped at 5:45 a.m. Sunday.  He said he was up and sitting in a chair, feeling the tremor.  Sometimes (la)ter, he noticed the clock had stoppe(d).  It is a wall clock with a long pendulum.  It has to be lined up true on the wall and if moved a fraction of an inch, it will stop.  He said that after he noticed it was stopped he also noticed it was slightly out of line.
       A. G. Hendrick, residing on Coleman street, said his clock stopped about nine a. m. Sunday, without any apparent reason, but he had not connected it with the quake.
       It was eported on the streets today that other wall clocks were stopped Sunday morning without any known cause.
       The Falls county courthouse clock had stopped running this morning from some unknown cause, not being run down, G. B. Collier, courthouse custodian, said.  It was his recollection that it was running Sunday morning and the hands were stopped somewhere around 12 o'clock.
       A visitor in Marlin from Rosebud today reported the earthquake was (missing) by (a) number of residents.

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