Hood, Grant · Kansas City, Mo. : Kansas City Jeweler and Optician · leaf 25
nd theother on Wednesday, yet their watches are still the feametime. For this reason the captains of vessels either drop aday or gain one as they cross this meridian. At sea all lon-gitude is reckoned from Greenwich and all ships chronome-ters (each vessel having two or three) are set to… … 22 TIME SERVICE OF TODAY. time at which they were set was a trifle more than five hoursdifferent from the local time of Washington, there being adifference of about 77 of longitude between Greenwich andWashington. As each city has its local time, which differs from other
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