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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1917
Page
5
The ad urges readers to enroll in a summer course to become stenographers and typewriters, promising 8 to 12 week training and rapid placement in September. It highlights large salaries and a reduced tuition, inviting readers to return a coupon for more details.
Miss Mildred Rutherford delivers a vivid account on the patriotism of Southern women during the Civil War era. She recalls Athens life, the war’s onset, and women’s aid work, home crafts, fear, sacrifice, and postwar Reconstruction, underscoring faith and forgiveness in the South.
The author recalls domestic routines of Southern families after the war, contrasting trained servants with women who must work. They note Southern women’ s experience with executive roles versus North ern women’ s knack for practical tasks, and reflect on postwar hardships, dress costs, and petit comforts. The piece credits Belgian and American women for adapting to labor but praises heroic women of the Sixties and Seventies.
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