In accordance with an ordinance passed by the City Council last autumn (TIME, Nov. 18), Chicago's clocks were officially advanced one hour March 1, thus putting the second city of the land on Eastern Standard Time. Pleased were La Salle Street financiers at their synchronization with Wall Street a thousand miles away. More pleased was Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose morning Tribune thus gained an additional 60 minutes to gather news and readers. Thoroughly displeased was Publisher William Franklin Knox, whose afternoon Daily News had to postpone its huge market edition...
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