“Twelve-year-old Selina Wall working at spooling room in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill, West, Texas. Their family record says she was born March 23, 1901. Her mother said: ‘She’s just taking the place of her sister (15 years old). Selina could earn a dollar a day. She was raised up in a cotton mill over in Belton, but she has to stay home and do the cookin.’ The mother and the 15-year-old girl work regularly in the mill. Several older boys work. Selina keeps house. Nine in the family.” –November 1913