The autumn of 1917 saw more and more patriotic demonstrations of support for the war in Clearfield County. But distinctions were being drawn.
Like a flash from the future, the Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Rochester Railroad placed an ad in DuBois newspapers advertising the need for women railway workers to perform light work of sweeping and operating light machinery.
The ad promised steady work and good pay. There were women laborers who took traditional male jobs in 1917, but certainly not on the mass scale of World War II.
1917 was a generation before Rosie the Riveter.
