A column on this date was not about women from McLean County, but may have put ideas into the heads of women or young girls who noticed the article tucked away on the back page of the newspaper.
Mrs. D'arline Holcomb of Bowling Green Missouri was setting tongues wagging. She was the single woman working as a "road oiler" for the Standard Oil Company. The reporter suggested that perhaps some people might say she should be home with her children. But she was reportedly a fine mother of four children as well as being a valued employee of the company.
Miss May Traill, an Irishwoman, had studied hortibulture in Warwickshire, England but was working as an electrical engineer at Studley College where she ran the electrical plant. The plant provided power for the dairy, hatchery and laundry plant from a 50 horsepower gas engine and a suction gas plant that ran two dynamos.
On the same date a few women who were employed outside the home were mentioned in the newspaper. Four were teachers, two social workers with the Salvation Army, one a housekeeper and one a prostitute. Work as factory girls was available, as were saleslady jobs and waitressing jobs. Opportunities were definitely thin on the ground in McLean County, as were examples of successful business women.