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Some women would do work for some of the more fortunate people, they would take in washing and ironing, stretch curtains, any type of sewing, patching, mending, alterations, or hire out as a seamstress or general cleaning woman. Some husbands and wives would team up to steam off wall paper or do papering. There were men who traveled around and sharpened scissors and knives. There was a man that gathered up old rags and bottles. Then the general junk man who took anything. And the man who would haul away your coal ashes for a few cents. They came in horse drawn carts, then called wagons. So it was a constant parade of the junk wagon or garbage wagon, etc. Some of the wagons or horses had bells. Our milk was delivered by horse and wagon. I remember when the Galliker’s dairy barns burnt down on Sherman Street. Some horses died, but some broke loose and went wild and screaming through the streets and alleys, and the air was thick with smoke and burning flesh.