For fun, can you tell what these occupations and industries are without looking at the manuscript? (as indexed in 1940) in North Dakota all from several pages in a row. They weren't really that hard to read. Some of them cracked me up.
Electrican -- Powa Go
Scanterss -- at home
Carpenter -- Body Instruction
Clerk -- Rital grocery
Wastry Cook -- Cofe
Scenstress -- At home
Odd work -- Grocery Slon
Station Engineer -- Pump home
Locomotive Empmre
Naking care of children -- private family
Oil Basines -- Private
Housework - Trwot
Housekeeper -- Prost
Passer -- Parisl
Haw Driver -- Beauty Shop
Buttonmaker -- Creamery
Electrical -- Electric Brassieres (my personal favorite)
Here are some that you wouldn't necessarily know are wrong without looking at them. (Correct word is in parenthesis)
Salesman -- Dresses (Wholesale)
Binder -- Private Co (Printing co)
Salesman -- Meat machine (Meat market)
Oil Engineer -- Meta factory (Civil Engineer -- Metal Factory)
And these stumped me. I think I partially figured them out. Ideas? Feel free to submit guesses in the comments:
Indexed as: Mummropi Acoerting
Indexed as: fireman stationary -- attorney painter
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