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I was impressed that one of my paternal great grandfathers was a barber. In the early 1900's a rural barber was still "practicing" medicine for the community.
if he sold salt would that make him a salt cellar?
maybe British English helps....
Hard to realize how lucrative that was back then now that you can get a container of Mortons for .59. They used to to find brackish creeks near salt licks where they'd set up big iron pots over fires and boil the salty water. They'd then fill up bags of the salt and haul it back home on horseback.
Workers in the silk mills in Paterson, NJ. On my father's side, the ancestors came here from England in 1863. Wondered at first why they would move to a country at war, but then we found out they worked in the cotton mills in England. The cotton wasn't getting through because of the Union blockade of the Southern ports, so they moved to the US to find work.
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