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Woman of the Century — Anna Byford Leonard (1893)

As a result of this eight-hour law, schools have been established in some of the stores from eight to ten a. m.. giving the younger children, who would spend that lime on the street, two hours of solid schooling, and many a girl, who could not write her name, is now cashier in the store where she commenced her work as an ignorant cash-girl.
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