100 Years Ago This Week: Jan. 20-26

From The Indianapolis News, Saturday, January 20: The Y.W.C.A. education department will soon offer a new course for Indianapolis business women. With machines and filing systems filling their niche in every modern office, the course will include practice in and direction for using labor-saving machines with special attention to the use of the Dictaphone, the adding and billing machines, the cash register, the check protectograph, the addressograph, and the stenotype. Students also will be taught the operation of card filing systems and indices. Instruction in correct banking methods include endorsing and writing of checks, making of bank deposits, and transferring money by wire. Assembling of payroll and its distribution will be part of the fourteen lessons of instruction, as well as shipping clerk’s training. The course has been organized under the supervision of Eliza Browning, librarian of the public library.