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...Daylight Saving goes out of effect at two o'clock tomorrow morning. All clocks and watches should be set back one hour...
...combat rum-smuggling, raising U. S. vessels there to 100. At the same time it was stated that machine guns would be dismounted from smaller craft, in shoal water near the Canadian shore, promiscuous shooting bring international complications. Last week rum runners slipped through the Detroit blockade in broad daylight, landed their cargoes when a patrol boat left its post for gasoline...
Journalist Von Wiegand awoke towards daylight and ran out on the navigating bridge in his pajamas. He had "sensed immediately a thrill in the air." The ship was making 105 m.p.h. with the boost from a tail wind...
...great deal of time to devote to wading through the local press, especially the Call, the staff of which evidently depends upon TIME for Golden Gate Highlights as proved by the enclosed article clipped bodily from TIME. This would give San Franciscans six free evenings a week, daylight savings time. Thanks for solving, partially, at least, the hair-snipping mystery of 1915. Congratulations also upon your Mill Valley fire story. TIME doesn't miss anything. TIME saves time...
...grounds for applying such a statute in these cases seem very obscure, Few churches have afternoon services during the daylight hours; and even near those that do the cries of tennis players can be of little disturbance in an age where the screeches of automobile horns and the grinding of trolley cars are legal anywhere and anytime. Afternoon athletics can hardly be held to dampen the enthusiasm of church-go-ers just because the playground happens to be near a place of worship...