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English: Poster issued by the United Cigar Stores Company in the United States to promote daylight saving time in 1918 during World War I. The poster reads: "Saving Daylight! Set the clock ahead one hour and win the war! Save 1,000,000 tons of coal by using an extra hour of daylight!"
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Source Princeton University Poster Collection at the Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives (https://sova.si.edu/)
Author United Cigar Stores Company

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