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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1925
Page
3
In Miami in December 1925 the YWCA reports a drastic lack of job opportunities for women. From October 1925 data, 1393 girls sought work with only 426 placed, including 669 stenographers and 156 of 669 finding positions. 89 typists offered, 18 placed. 95 bookkeepers, 11 placed. 172 clerks, 13 placed. 140 hotel and institutional workers, 23 placed.
A Miami article reports on how Florida’s winter labor demand favors specialists over versatile workers. It cites YWCA guidance showing housework pays $12 to $18 weekly with room and board, cooks $12 to $20, nursemaids $10 to $15, stenographers $20 to $35, and clerical work without typing scarce. It notes high living costs, scarce accommodations, and a perception that many educated women must become waitresses or house help.
F M Wassum aged resident of Bluefield dies at 11:30 in the morning at his daughter Mrs Emory Craig 1217 Norfolk Street He came from Atkins Virginia nine years ago and was a native of Smyth County Virginia Survived by six daughters and two sons funeral arrangements listed with interment at Wassum Cemetery Atkins Also a note promoting a Colonial Moving Picture His Brothers Keeper showing Sunday December 27 free at Colonial theater
James Thompson, an invalid for ten years, propels himself by wheelchair from Clovis New Mexico toward New York. He reaches Indianapolis and says he sometimes travels thirty five miles daily with lift assistance from passing trucks.
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