Rubber

[bwarnerok]

First time I'd ever run across this occupation and one just speculates as to what it was he was doing.

Chicago, 1920... in a bath house (which of course is just more fodder depending upon your interpretation of that place of business).

The family thought he was working the vaudeville circuit playing the trumpet.

Makes me wonder just who's trumpet he was playing. :-)

betsy

[Mike_E]

This isn't wat the Census taker wrote because they couldn't spell
masseur/masseuse ?

rubbing is what they do....sort of |blush|

[Barnzzz]

Hello, we too have a rubber. He is described on the census as a 'medical rubber' and worked in a turkish bath in Bristol. However dubious this sounds, it beats 'stick collector' as an occupation which is what another ancestor was doing !

Sue

[Mike_E]

I picked up a guide today at a history fair for Early occupations.

the closest to Rubber lister is Rubbler - "A person who sorted small stones in Quarries"

[bwarnerok]

hmm.. don't think there were many opportunities to work at a quarry IN Chicago. But I imagine he saw lots of "small stones" in his line of work. :-)