Be somebody, be a nurse

 Brookville Democrat, April 5, 1917

For Girl Graduates

To girls about to graduate from high school comes the suggestion of great opportunities for service and for financial independence in the field of public health nursing work.

The Indiana Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis points out that, with the increasing success of the efforts to get the health of all the communities under supervision, the demand for public health nurses far exceeds the supply.

The compensation for this steady work is from $70 to $100 a month which far exceeds the returns from most sorts of effort for which women are so peculiarly adapted.

The demand from other states had taken several of the Indiana public health nurses and to keep up the supply and meet the foreseen demands of the future, the State Tuberculosis Society issues this notice to high school girls who may be interested in the subject of nursing.

NOTE: America had also just gone to war that month, so it's likely the Red Cross absorbed many of these would-be Florence Nightingales. The peculiar adaptation for women's work was otherwise ... pretty standard stuff.