Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1916 — TAKES HUSBAND’S JOB [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TAKES HUSBAND’S JOB

This woman is but one of the many thousands of Englishwomen who are today doing every kind, of labor owing to thp absence of their, men folk whohave joined the arm} and are fighting on foreign soil. All the employees of a Peterborough blacksmith having joined the army nnd it being, impossible to secure any local assistance, the lady of the house, the blacksmith’s wife, aids her husband in his work and fits a shoe to a nicety. The photograph shows Mrs. Pogson, wife of the blacksmith, shoeng a horse.