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Matters of Time
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The Knocker Uppers
The cane was just one, depending on where your customers were and what the lay of the land was. Some people had like a mallet for ground floor doors. Others in like company towns, might be hired by a mining company to very deliberately wake up every one at the same time. And apparently, those knocker uppers, since the whole point was to be as loud as poss ble, a use like one of those wooden clackers that you see at socker matches.
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