VANISHING WAR TRADES.
With the end of the war aro passing some of the curious little trades unknown to the general public. Small fortunes havo been made by boys in Yorkshire towns who hung 'about the great stations watching for consignments of beer. As soon as the beer arrived its address was noted, and tho address was sold for a penny each to hundreds of munitioners in the .hitherto "dry" neighbourhoods.
Knockers-up in munition centres did extremely well. They adopted the custom long prevalent in mining districts and went from house to house in tho early morning calling sleepy men and women to work. The shortage of alarm clocks gave them a wide clientele. Small boys at great ports earned many sixpences in taking last messages from soldiers departing for the war. And in remote villages, mainly in Ireland, where old women could not write, scribes wero employed to write letters to grandsons and sons at the front, usually at a penny a time.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16433, 29 January 1919, Page 10
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164VANISHING WAR TRADES. Press, Volume LV, Issue 16433, 29 January 1919, Page 10
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