nt to and if you and your famely
dont wont to be worry with me I will stay where i work and will
come and see you all and do any think i can for you all from
little A---- V---- excuse bad righting.

JACKSONVILLE, FLA., April 29, 1917.

_My dear Sir:_ I take grate pleazer in writing you. as I found in
your Chicago Defender this morning where you are secur job for
men as I realey diden no if you can get a good job for me as am a
woman and a widowe with two girls and would like to no if you can
get one for me and the girls. We will do any kind of work and I
would like to hear from you at once not any of us has any
husbands.

MOSS POINT, MISS., May 5, 1917.

_Dear Sirs:_ Will you please send me in formation towards a first
class cookeing job or washing job I want a job as soom as you can
find one for me also I want a job for three young girls ages 13
to 16 years. Pease oblidge.

NEW ORLEANS, LA., May 7, 1917.

_Gentlemen:_ I read Defender every week and see so much good
youre doing for the southern people & would like to know if you
do the same for me as I am thinking of coming to Chicago about
the first of June, and wants a position. I have very fine
references if needed. I am a widow of 28. No children, not a
relative living and I can do first class work as house maid and
dining room or care for invalid ladies. I am honest and neat and
refined with a fairly good education. I would like a position
where I could live on places because its very trying for a good
girl to be out in a large city by self among strangers is why I
would like a good home with good people. Trusting to hear from
you.

SELMA, ALA., May 19, 1917.

_Dear Sir:_ I am a reader of the Chicago Defender I think it is
one of the Most Wonderful Papers of our race printed. Sirs I am
writeing to see if You all will please get me a job. And Sir I
can wash dishes, wash iron nursing work in groceries and dry good
stores. Just any of these I can do. Sir, who so ever you get the
job from please tell them to send me a ticket and I will pay
them. When I get their as I have not got enough money to pay my
way. I am a girl of 17 years old and in the 8