Gibboney? (1915); Daylight Saving(s) (1913, 1915)

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   I was looking for something else when I found these.

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GIBBONEY

   Also gibbroney, jibbroney, jaboney, jabroney, et al.  Did it come from a person's name, and is this the guy?


   5 March 1915, PHILADELPHIA PRESS, pg. 8, col. 5:
_GIBBONEY BLAMES_
_CLUBS FOR DRUNKS_
_Saloons Defended in License_
   _Court by Head of Law and_
      _Order League._
   Defense of the saloon against attacks on it by church workers and temperence advocates, who attribute drunkenness to licensed places, was made yesterday before Judges Staake and Patterson in License Court by D. Clarence Gibboney, head of the Law and Order Society.  He declared that it is not the saloons that are responsible for half the drunkennes, and placed the blame on clubs and unlicensed places--...

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DAYLIGHT SAVINGS

   See ADS-L archives for "daylight saving(s)."


   5 March 1915, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, pg. 7, col. 2:
_"DAYLIGHT MAKER" DEAD_
_William Willett Wanted England to_
   _Move Clocks Forward_
   LONDON, March 4--William Willett, whose proposal several years ago to "manufacture daylight" by legislation to move all clocks forward a few hours attracted world-wide attention, is dead at Chiselhurst, near London.
   Willett's Daylight Saving bill, which was discussed in the British Parliament in the spring of 1909, provided for the earlier use of daylight by putting forward the clock twenty minutes on four successive Sundays in April and by reversing the process on four Sundays in September.  This procedure, it was argued, would bring more time at the end of the day for recreation while the sun was still up.  The measure never became law in England.


(TIMES OF LONDON database, which begins in 1913)
London Landowners. The County Council And Sunday Golf. (News)
      The Times Wednesday, Jul 09, 1913; pg. 3; Issue 40259; col G
("...the Daylight Savings Bill.")