Peanut Butcher

In the late 19th century a street corner vendor selling peanuts, fruit and other snacks. In the early 20th century a train-bound vendor of newspapers, snacks, gossip and travel tips.

He started as a peanut butcher but retired as a Pullman Porter.

Drink one to the fireman, one to the brakeman,
One to the engineer,
And one to the peanut butcher man
For comin’ back year after year.
-Bent Roses, The Peanut Butcher

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