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Ruth Spayer
- Mar 13, 2019
- 5 min
Westclox Great Depression Effects
As the Roaring Twenties came to a startling abrupt ending, Westclox positively continued. I have frequently been asked by Westclox...
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Ruth Spayer
- Dec 11, 2017
- 4 min
December - A Most Wonderful Time of the Year
December has always been a joyous time for Westcloxers. (Except for 1942, but we’ll save that for another time.) I can’t begin to tell...
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Ruth Spayer
- Aug 29, 2017
- 6 min
Catching Up!
Well, I’m rather behind in my Curator’s Corner writing! It has just been a very busy summer around here. Now that schools are back in...
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Ruth Spayer
- Jun 26, 2017
- 5 min
You Couldn’t Get There From Here, but Now You Can!
When the Western Clock Company (a.k.a. Westclox) began producing its world-famous timepieces, about the only way to get from the factory...
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Ruth Spayer
- Apr 3, 2017
- 5 min
Remembering The Great War
One hundred years ago this week, the United States entered World War I. In the nearly two years that followed, 147 Westclox employees...
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Ruth Spayer
- Jan 9, 2017
- 4 min
What’s The Weather Going To Be Like?
One of the first things most of us do in the morning, and one of the last things before going to bed at night, is check the weather...
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Ruth Spayer
- Nov 5, 2016
- 5 min
“The Clock that Caused a Near-Riot”
Little Known Facts About Westclox As Veteran’s Day draws close, I am inspired to write about Westclox during World War II. Some of you...
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Ruth Spayer
- Oct 21, 2016
- 3 min
“Woody Who?”
This is the first in a series of articles on “Things You Might Not Know About Westclox”. This first article is written in response to a...
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Ruth Spayer
- Aug 3, 2016
- 3 min
Where Have All the Kids' Clocks Gone?
Here at the museum, we would never claim to have one of everything Westclox ever made. We're not even close, in spite of the extensive...
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Ruth Spayer
- Jun 17, 2016
- 3 min
Why LaSalle?
One of the most frequently asked questions in the museum is, “Why does everything Westclox say LaSalle if the company was in Peru?”...
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Ruth Spayer
- May 9, 2016
- 2 min
Mystery Solved?
It seems we are always in “Sleuth Mode” here at the museum, constantly digging through our archives, hoping to solve some of our own...
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