Local Merchants Closed Stores on Workless Day

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Featured Link: Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 24 Jan 1918, p. 1
Media Type: Newspaper
Item Type: Articles
Notes: Wilmette observed its first workless day with the only stores opened being groceries, markets, drug stores and restaurants. The measure was taken for fuel conservation.
Date of Publication: 24 Jan 1918
Subject(s): Business enterprises
Consumer rationing
Fuel supply
Local identifier: Wilmette.News.288219
Language of Item: English
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