Original sentence: An iceman is someone who sells ice from a wagon or cart.Arriving in the ice corporations that both sell and produce ice as well as ice machines to restaurants and bars.Many icemen in the Northeastern United States have their origins from Southern Italy
Edited sentence: An iceman is someone who sells ice from a wagon, cart, or motor-truck.Arriving in the United States with little or no education or trade skills, many of these immigrants began ice routes, especially in NYC, where various ice routes were and are still a common sight.From the late 19th century to mid 20th century, in cities and towns icemen would commonly make daily rounds delivering ice for iceboxes before the electric domestic refrigerator became ubiquitous.Many icemen in the Northeastern United States long had their origins from Southern Italy.Many of the old fashioned small time routes were bought out in the 1980's and 1990's to big corporate ice corporations that both sell and produce ice as well as ice machines to restaurants and bars.Modern day icemen no longer use a wagon or cart to deliver their ice, instead use freezer trucks which contains pallets stacked with bags of ice cubes as well as large blocks (known as cakes) of ice.The profession was formerly much more common