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Why Debutantes Volunteered to Be Horse-Riding Couriers in Rural Kentucky | History
Between the 1920s and 1940s, wealthy young women signed up to run errands and carry messages for the Frontier Nursing Service, whose nurse-midwives provided care to patients in hard-to-reach areas
Source: smithsonianmag.com