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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 called newsdealers, and are not covered here.
The newspaper vending machines began to lose popularity as many newspapers switched to online distribution, and as newspaper prices rose; as most vending machines are completely mechanical with no moving parts, few of them have paper currency validators which need some kind of electrical power to work, requiring multiple quarters or dollar ...
Selling old stuff is an attractive idea for a lot of people because it serves two great functions: It gets things out of your house, and it earns you money: Win-win! See Our List: 100 Most ...
Newspaper industry lore suggests that the first paperboy, hired in 1833, was 10-year-old Barney Flaherty who was hired after seeing an advertisement in the Sun News and signing up for the job. [ 1 ] The duties of a paperboy varied by distributor, [ 2 ] but usually included counting and separating papers, rolling papers and inserting them in ...
It's a sign of the times: rustling through the trash for recyclable goods to redeem for a few cents is no longer the vocation of the downtrodden. It's gone mainstream.The USA Today reports that a ...
Google is digitizing microfilm from old newspapers and bringing it online to you -- free. It's springing for the cost to put the old film online, opening up vast amounts of local American history ...
The term was extensively used to describe two major New York City newspapers around 1900 as they battled for circulation. [2]: 156–160 [3] Journalism historian Frank Luther Mott used five characteristics to identify yellow journalism: [4] scare headlines in huge print, often sensationalizing minor news; lavish use of pictures, or imaginary ...
The Old Colony Memorial (est.1822) is a semiweekly newspaper published in Plymouth, Massachusetts. [1] Gannett owns the paper; [ 2 ] previous owners include the George W. Prescott Publishing Co. [ 3 ] and the Memorial Press Group .