Crowds throng Main Street in Hartford to celebrate the rumored armistice. On November 7, 1918 an unofficial report was released by the United Press declaring that an armistice had been signed and the war would end at 2:00 p.m. that day. By that…
Workers at the Seth Thomas Tower Clock factory hold the hand of the first Colgate Clock, then the largest clock in the world, before its shipment to its destination in Jersey City.