Scranton and Vicinity Business and Street Directory, 1893-1894 . 5000500050 6 50 7 007 50 009 00 10 00 11 00 13 00 14 00 16 00 17 GO 19 00 20 00 21 00 22 0033 0025 00 THE FIRST first the watch was about the size of a dessert plate. It had weights andwas used as a pocket clock. The first great improvement, the substitutionof springs for weights, was in 1540. The earliest springs were not coiled, butonly straight pieces of steel. Early watches had only one hand, and beingwound up twice a day, they could not be expected to keep the time nearerthan fifteen or twenty minutes in the twelve
Scranton and Vicinity Business and Street Directory, 1893-1894 . 5000500050 6 50 7 007 50 009 00 10 00 11 00 13 00 14 00 16 00 17 GO 19 00 20 00 21 00 22 0033 0025 00 THE FIRST first the watch was about the size of a dessert plate. It had weights andwas used as a pocket clock. The first great improvement, the substitutionof springs for weights, was in 1540. The earliest springs were not coiled, butonly straight pieces of steel. Early watches had only one hand, and beingwound up twice a day, they could not be expected to keep the time nearerthan fifteen or twenty minutes in the twelve hours. The dials were of silveror brass, the cases had no crystals but opened at the back and front, and -werefour or five inches in diameter. A plain watch cost the equivalent of f 1,600in our currency, and one w^as ordered, it took a. year to make H. H. EILENBERGER, 114 West Market Street Scranton, Pa., -DEALER TN- MEATS Game and Ponltry in Season. Goods delivered to all parts of the cityfree of charge. COLLINS & HACKETT, For FINE NECKWEAR, 330 Liiickawanna Avenue. 110 SCRANTON AND VICINITY. BANK. The OLYPHANT TRUST eOMPANY is theonly bank betxveen Scranton and Carloondale. Your Patronage Solicited. Interest paid on Sa\-ings Deposits. Remittances nnade to foreign and Careful. GEORGE M. HULLE. S. PECK S. N. CALLENDERJ. N. LILLIBRIDGEM. J. STONE J. W. OBRIEN C. M. HATHAWAY
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