no just whah but I hope the Lord will find a place now let
me here from you all at once.

JACKSONVILLE, FLA., April 28, 1917.

_Kind sir:_ I seen your name in the Chicago Defender I am real
anxious to go north I and my family I am a married womon with
family my husbon and 3 children my olders boy 15 younger 13 baby
4 my sister 20. I can wash chamber mad dish washer nurse or wash
and my boy can work my sister can cook or wash or nurse my
husband is a good work and swift to lern we are collored pepel a
good family wonts a job with good pepel pleas anser soon

_Kind Sir:_ We have several times read your noted paper and we
are delighted with the same because it is a thorough Negro paper.
There is a storm of our people toward the North and especially to
your city. We have watched your want ad regularly and we are
anxious for location with good families (white) where we can be
cared for and do domestic work. We want to engage as cook, nurse
and maid. We have had some educational advantages, as we have
taught in rural schools for few years but our pay so poor we
could not continue. We can furnish testimonial of our honesty and
integrity and moral standing. Will you please assist us in
securing places as we are anxious to come but want jobs before we
leave. We want to do any kind of honest labor. Our chance here is
so poor.

MOBILE, ALA., April 30, 1917.

_Dear Sir:_ I after seeing your jobs advertised in the Defender
was moved to write to you for clear information of the ---- ----.
I am a laundress wanting a position in some place where I can get
pay for what I do, work here are too scarce to support me
necessarily so I humbly wish you to favor me with an early answer
stateing the entire nature of the great colored society. Your
answer are daily and impatiently expected by your humble servant.

VICKSBURG, MISS., May 7, 1917.

_Dear Sir:_ This comes to say to you will you please inform us of
some place of employment. We are working here at starvation wages
and some of us are virtually without employment willing to accept
any kind of work such as cooking, laundering or as domestics no
objection to living in a small town, suburb or country. There are