Possible Clues:

• Fruit Neil distributed at the meridian
• Eli and Dante involved in indication of day of issue
• Start of many a story
• *Newspaper article lead-in
• Dispatch origin
• You may lose a whole day going over it
• Location of East/West meeting that is given at top of newspaper article
• Divides time between places to go out with a girl and go to the bar
• Statement above a news item giving its time and place of origin
• Dispatch header