Showing just how extreme, or maybe desperate, things had become during World War One, the US was debating "giving up" "heatless days".
Heatless days?
Yes.
As the war effort that had brought in Porkless Days (which, the paper reported, caused the Groundhog to stay in on this Groundhog Day), Meatless Days, and Wheatless Days, every Monday was a Heatless Day.
Brutal.
In spite of what people may think, the teens were colder than things are today, and today February can be pretty cold. No heat in that era would have been truly brutal, and frankly I'd think a rather poor idea. Granted, it no doubt saved on coal, but at a certain human expense, I'd think.
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