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  2. Newspaper hawker - Wikipedia

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    London newsboy Ned Parfett with news of the Titanic disaster, April 16, 1912. A newspaper hawker, newsboy or newsie is a street vendor of newspapers without a fixed newsstand. Related jobs included paperboy, delivering newspapers to subscribers, and news butcher, selling papers on trains. Adults who sold newspapers from fixed newsstands were ...

  3. Newsboys' strike of 1899 - Wikipedia

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    The leadership of the newsboy strike was less centralized than most unions, with boys in each neighborhood feeling more loyalty to the other boys in their area than to the centralized leadership. [2] That said, some boys were more influential than others, organizing rallies, acting as spokespeople for the strike, and being interviewed by papers ...

  4. Newsboy - Wikipedia

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    The Newsboy, an 1889 painting by American George Newell Bowers; The Newsboy, an 1879 painting by English painter Ralph Hedley; The Newsboy, an 1869 painting by Canadian-American Edward Mitchell Bannister; The News Boy, an 1841 painting by American Henry Inman; The Newsboy, an outdoor sculpture by Bruce Hanners, in Columbus, Ohio, U.S.

  5. Paperboy - Wikipedia

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    Paperboy license for boys under age 14 in 1970 when girls were not allowed to deliver newspapers in New York State. The paperboy occupies a prominent place in the popular memory of many countries, including the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and Japan.

  6. Newsboy cap - Wikipedia

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    The newsboy cap, newsie cap, gatsby, jeff cap, [1] or baker boy hat (British) is a casual-wear cap similar in style to the flat cap. It has a similar overall shape and stiff peak ( visor ) in front as a flat cap , but the body of the cap is rounder, made of eight pieces, fuller, and paneled with a button on top, and often with a button ...

  7. new yorker - images.huffingtonpost.com

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    MARK ULRIKSEN mysterious stranger who blows into town one day and makes the bad guys go away. He wore a grizzled beard and had thick, un-bound hair that cascaded halfway down his

  8. Historical Thesaurus of English - Wikipedia

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    The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is a complete database of all the words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries (including Old English), arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English , from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside dates ...

  9. Bilingual dictionary - Wikipedia

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    A bilingual dictionary or translation dictionary is a specialized dictionary used to translate words or phrases from one language to another. Bilingual dictionaries can be unidirectional , meaning that they list the meanings of words of one language in another, or can be bidirectional , allowing translation to and from both languages.