1. A sign writer completed a shop sign incorrectly, so the shopkeeper complained, saying, you've put too many Ands in the sign

2. Her mother, Mary Ann Hodges, the daughter of a mercantile clerk, had previously been married to a sign writer who had died in an accident.

3. At the age of 22, Leeteg worked as a billboard painter and sign writer for a large outdoor advertising company, Foster & Kleiser, in Sacramento, California, before the depression made conditions difficult.