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Greene County Herald
Leakesville, Greene County, Mississippi
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A unit of 25 expert women stenographers is being recruited in the United States for overseas service with the American Expeditionary Forces, assigned to the quartermaster's corps and General Pershing's headquarters. Requirements include experience, uniforms, physical exam, and war-period engagement at $1,000/year plus daily allowances.
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A unit of 25 expert women stenographers, who will wear a distinctive uniform, is now being recruited in the United States for overseas service. This group will be assigned to the quartermaster's corps of the American expeditionary forces and to the headquarters of the staff of General Pershing. Each applicant for service must be an experienced stenographer. She will be required to own in her own equipment four uniforms (two for winter and two for summer service). She must pass a physical examination, and will be engaged for the period of the war. The salary now stated is $1,000 a year with the additional allowance of $4 a day for the first month and $2 a day for the remainder of the time.
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A unit of 25 expert women stenographers, who will wear a distinctive uniform, is now being recruited in the United States for overseas service. This group will be assigned to the quartermaster's corps of the American expeditionary forces and to the headquarters of the staff of General Pershing. Each applicant for service must be an experienced stenographer. She will be required to own in her own equipment four uniforms (two for winter and two for summer service). She must pass a physical examination, and will be engaged for the period of the war. The salary now stated is $1,000 a year with the additional allowance of $4 a day for the first month and $2 a day for the remainder of the time.