Edmund Bringer Memoir - Brookens Library

Table of Contents
Early LLfe ........................... 1
Birth-Life with bther, Brother and Grandparents--
Schooling--Living in kt Lilly's shadow--Moving with
his kther's job-Vocational training and early jobs
krk for Northwstern Bell Telephone Company .......... 5
bther's remarriage. ...................... 6
Captain Allison Smith's family ................. 7
krk during the Decatus years. ................. 8
Cable splicing--A thirteen-day courtship--Many kinds
of wrk with the phone company--'Writ all aver this
dogone state"
brk during brld kr I1 ................... .12
An uofunny joke at the signal depot-Telephone, not
militaxy =--at the '!Manhattan Project" plant--
alms t drafted
Marriage ........................... .16
A number of mes around Decatur--"An Alison in every
generation1'--Mrs. Bringer, a foracious reader
Effects of depression and the war years. ........... .21
Yes, he repossessed phones--Kept a "stMcingl'
garden--- in the wrk force
From "Farm Ues" to Dick Tracy transmitters ......... .24
Mr. Bringer's safety damstration board ........... .26
Everyone frm the United States and Canada saw
it--Several embarrassing nmmmts--bard mt to
the AT&T Building in New York
Bringer starts a cable school in Decatur and teaches
ho&rs.............,...... ..... 30
Wrking in Cairo during a flood. ............... .31
Description of lwee and Haliday Hotel --kl tzes
and tunes but no fox trots--Riding the interurban
Edmund Bringer Memoir - Archives/Special Collections - Norris L Brookens Library - University of Illinois at Springfield - UIS