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"Trying to Be a Servant" - Nellie Bly - New York World
New York World 1887-10-30
IV-"Toilers of the Home: A College Woman's Experience as a Domestic Servant" - Lillian Pettengill - Everybody's Magazine
Everybody's Magazine 1903-06-01
III-"Toilers of the Home: A College Woman's Experience as a Domestic Servant" - Lillian Pettengill - Everybody's Magazine
Everybody's Magazine 1903-05-01
II-"Toilers of the Home: A College Woman's Experience as a Domestic Servant" - Lillian Pettengill - Everybody's Magazine
Everybody's Magazine 1903-04-01
I- "Toilers of the Home: A College Woman's Experience as a Domestic Servant" -Lillian Pettengill -Everybody's Magazine
Everybody's Magazine 1903-03-01
Lillian Pettengill's "Toilers of the Home" for Everybody's Magazine - Part One
Everybody's Magazine 1903-03-01
"Some Ways to Kill The Slave Market" - Marvel Cooke - New York Compass
"So the Slave Market is back. "And it is back to stay unless something is done to kill it off quickly. "A lot of people, aroused by its rebirth in The Bronx, Brighton Beach, Brownsville and elsewhere, are already fighting to beat back its advance. They want no return of conditions that existed during hte last depression when wages were driven down to 25 cents an hour."
New York Compass 1950-01-12
''Mrs. LeGree' Hires Only on the Street, Always 'Nice Girls'' - Marvel Cooke - New York Compass
"As I stood there waiting to be bought, I lived through a century of indignity. . . ." " 'I've always picked nice girls,' she said. 'I knew you were nice the minute I laid eyes on you.' " "That pat on the back was worse in a way than a kick in the teeth."
New York Compass 1950-01-11