Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1892 — Butcher Girls. [ARTICLE]

Butcher Girls.

Of all the masculine avocations, that of the butcher seems to be the last one which women would be likely to invade, yet a Northern paper says that at Chester, 111., two young women, daughters of a Mr. Long, may be found pursuing it any day, not merely cutting up and selling the meat hung in a shop, but actually killing, skinning and cleaning the anv mala.