Event date: Jun 5, 1862
Since the whistle, attached to the boiler at the Melodeon Factory, has come to be recognized as an ‘institution’ throughout our own and indeed the neighboring towns, ‘tis fair that the public should know what all this ‘tooting’ is about. The legitimate use of the whistle is for the signals given at 6 o’clock, morning; twelve, noon; and one and six o’clock afternoon; — thus furnishing a convenient standard of time for all who come within its sound. It’s use at any other time, in the way of short and repeated ‘toots,’ will signify that “sun thin’s burning.”
