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Show ADVANTAGES OF NEW CLOCK Twenty-Four Hours on Dial Prevent Serious Mistakes in Arranging Appointments by Wire. Beginning June 1 the hours of the day will be numbered from 1 to 24, from midnight to midnight, on all I I 1 Present Clock. French railways and in the postal and , telegraph service. The new arrangement is Intended to replace the awkward "a. m." and "p. m." designations. A partial test la the telegraph service has given satisfactory satis-factory results. New time tables for all the lines will be printed and instead of 4 p. m., for Instance, the simple number 16 iv A The New Idea. will be used, and instead of 11 p. m., the hour will be designated as 23, and so on. Postmarks will be similarly registered |