Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — Women Bankrupts. [ARTICLE]

Women Bankrupts.

Women bankrupts were less numerous than in. 1910, the figure being 399, against 495. The woman grocer was the least successful among the tradesmen of the other Bex, taking the number of failures as the criterion; the woman milliner and dressmaker next, then the woman draper and haberdasher, and fourth the woman lodging house Keeper. * Married women were slightly in the majority of the failures (161) and single women greatly In the minority (81). There were 157 widows. The woman bankrupt entered into many fields. Among others one notes in the list of the year eleven bakers, four butchers, seven farmers, five fishmongers, four nurses, two photographers, eight restaurant keepers, five schoolmistresses, six tabacconlsts, two gardeners, nine toy dealers, six stationers and three undertakers.—London Board of Trade Report