Ruth Harriet Jacobs

Fresh out of high school, Ruth Jacobs heard that the Boston Herald Traveler was hiring "copy girls" since so many men had gone off to war. She quickly showed her talents and was assigned to writing the obituaries of soldiers from Massachusetts. She was then assigned to interview returning veterans, and those wounded in the war. She also co-authored a piece about women returning to their homes after working while their husbands were at war. She reminisces...