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Woman's Work

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
May
Year
1876
Copyright
Public Domain
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A correspondent traveling in Penmylvania says that it is coinmon to boo farmers' wives -working in tlio flelda there. Tho writer adds : "Lately we noticed a ,'oung single lady handling with wonder'ul skili a large cultivator, to which hice hcavy horses were attachod. At inother farin we noticed severa! wonien ilaating corn and potatoes, and at nnothcr place a yoiing and newly-mavried woman was spreading lime - ono oí tho igliest jobs ou a farm. Such and many other jobs are done by country womeu - 'eate that wtjuld astonisl} soroo of your ity ladies,''

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Old News
Michigan Argus