15 October 1910: 57 Cakes Submitted, Only 5 Winners

On this day in 1910, the Athens Banner published the winners of the Young Women's Christian Association Cake Contest:

Though the Y.W.C.A was quite modern, as an organization that not only recognized the need for young, single women to work and be educated, and therefore, also need a safe place to stay when they came to cities on their own, they realized that barbeques, bake sales, other contests remained an acceptable way to raise money for these efforts.

Learn More:

• Athens Banner, July 1910 - Dec. 1910 on Microfilm in the Heritage collection.
• What American Women Did, 1789-1920 by Linda Miles Coppens in the Reference collection.
• The Job by Sinclair Lewis via PINES.
• Timelines of American Women's History by Sue Heinemann in the general collection.
• Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America by Sara M. Evans in the general collection.
• Main Street by Sinclair Lewis in the fiction collection.
• Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present, edited by Lisa Grunwald in the general collection.
• The Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum in the general collection.
• Ann Vickers by Sinclair Lewis via PINES.
• Young Women's Christian Association website.