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ITEM 4 · AND THE WAR-WORK COUNT, CROSS-REFERENCED TO THIS RUN'S WARS ADDENDUM
The county histories give this town three working women by name and trade — a small count that is itself the print era's record — and the branch gathers them here because no other file holds them as a class. Mahala (Snethen) Robinson kept the lunch room at the B&O depot — the railroad's feeding point run by a woman at the crossing where the town's travellers ate (Businesses; Howard's sketch record). Minnie Whitcomb stands in the 1916 canvass as a partner in the furniture-and-undertaking house — Whitcomb & Ummel in its canvass form — a woman in the town's most respectable trade partnership of the print era. Myrna R. Daube completes the line in the next century: twenty-three years at the license branch's counter (1969–1992), the patronage era's most durable woman officeholder in the town (W-11 addendum). Around the three names stands the era's uncounted majority — the farm wives of Farms & Agriculture's households, whose labor the censuses recorded as none — printed as context, not as a manufactured count. The war-work half of the item stands where this run dug it: the women's committee of the Third Liberty Loan sold 341,900 dollars of bonds in this county in 1918 (wars addendum, its figures on Greenough's record) — the county's counted women's war work, with the town's own committee unnamed inside it. The item closes DUG at canvass strength: three named trades, one county count, and the uncounted stated as uncounted.
Principal sources: Businesses (Robinson; the 1916 canvass's Whitcomb line); the W-11 bmv addendum (Daube); this run's wars addendum (the women's committee, on Greenough).