A working edition.
Lost Jobs
Here’s a gallery of endangered or extinct professions, like lector, for instance, and switchboard operator—a job I used to have, but wasn’t much good at. (I’d say stenographers are obsolete, too, and it’s a good thing. Those girls are dangerous—see below.)
Workplace Hazard
Ah, the story the stone tells. Poor young George Millet died “evading 6 young women trying to give him birthday kisses” in the office where he worked. You’ll find even more details of this sad bit of history in a pdf of an article from the New York Times.