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Historic EVENTS in and around Welland

THE BELL’S MISTAKE

[Welland Telegraph, 19 January 1912]

Those who are so unfortunate as to have time the length of their slumbers by the ringing of the six o’clock bell every morning had a full hour cruelly loped off that period on Friday morning and those who did not notice the mistake until after they had arrived at their respective occupations, either gave the boss an extra hour or stood in the cold voicing their wrath on the man who made the mistake of ringing the city bell just one hour before the proper time. One of the police officers made a mistake of an hour on this particular morning when he looked at his watch and the big “alarm clock” was just sixty minutes ahead of time in performing its duty.

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