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'December snow.' Hand-painted watercolor calendar for December 1917 by Schima Martos. Particulates from a smoking kerosene lamp overspread the days of December, and are labeled 'December höra,' 'December snow.' The first five days or nights of the month show a couple at, sitting down to, or rising from a lamp-lit table. The rest of the month the nights are dark, other than four in which the quarter of the moon shows through a window, or Christmas, when the couple stands in the light of a Christmas tree.

'December snow.' Hand-painted watercolor calendar for December 1917 by Schima Martos. Particulates from a smoking kerosene lamp overspread the days of December, and are labeled 'December höra,' 'December snow.' The first five days or nights of the month show a couple at, sitting down to, or rising from a lamp-lit table. The rest of the month the nights are dark, other than four in which the quarter of the moon shows through a window, or Christmas, when the couple stands in the light of a Christmas tree.

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December höra

December snow

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Rationing

As early as October, 1914, there had been food shortages in major cities in Austria-Hungary which would introduce rationing in April, 1915.

Germany's 'Turnip Winter' of 1916–1917 was bitterly cold — 'the coldest winter since '93' according to (Taffrau?) and there were shortages of food and coal in Britain, France, Germany, and Russia.

Thompson 349 occupied Italy, 10,000 starved;