SEGMENT: TRANSPORTATION & NON-FARM WORK

Bert Aikman>UIS Collection A's>UIS Collection, Segment 23

SEGMENT: TRANSPORTATION & NON-FARM WORK,

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TRANSPORTATION
Additional detail on train orders. All trains stopped in Litchfield except for "highball freights" which were mainly refrigerator cars. Discussion of differences between passenger-train engines & freight-train engines. Mentions that engineers were dare-devils. Story of one train making Litchfield from Honey Bend in just 4 minutes. (addenda item# 89, see Aikman 8, Clip# 795)
NON-FARM WORK
Discussion of filling express money orders. Story of selling a lot of money orders & carrying money, but never robbed. Story of schoolteacher helping Bert get books straight. Again mentions making waybills & invoices for 16 cars of cattle. (addenda item# 90, see Aikman 8, Clip# 799)