The Listowel Banner - April 18, 1890 - Joe Edwards' Famous Clock

The Listowel Banner - April 18, 1890 - Joe Edwards' Famous Clock

A news item was published in the newspaper The Listowel Banner on April 18, 1890 about a clock owned by W&A conductor Joe Edwards. Mr. Edwards had acquired a clock once owned by Sir Thomas Haliburton, author of the book Sam Slick, that Sir Thomas had bought from a Yankee clockmaker. The scan of the article appears below, while the article's text is shown here for search purposes:

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The Listowel Banner April 18, 1890

Sam Slick’s Clock.

Conductor Joe Edwards has in his possession the old wooden clock that Judge Haliburton (Sam Slick) bought from the Yankee pedlar, says the Halifax Mail. It was one of the first that came to Nova Scotia, and was made by Terry & Andrews, Bristol, Conn. It was sold at the Judge's auction and bought by the Rev. Mr. Crascomb, whose son George traded it a few years ago to H. Hoyt, of Windsor, for a smaller one. John Conley, of Windsor, who used to be a coachmen for the judge, remembers the clock well, having often wound it, and Jas. Haley knows it as the one bought by Rev. Mr. Crascomb. H. Hoyt, the late owner, presented it to Conductor Edwards, who highly prizes it as a souvenir of Sam Slick, the clockmaker.

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