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2. Paperboy - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. Volkmar Wentzel - Wikipedia

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   Wentzel and a friend, Bill Buckley, sold some personal items, pooled the money they had earned from their newspaper home delivery jobs, and decided to settle in South America. [4] [7] [8] They dropped out of high school and departed Binghamton in February 1934, arriving in D.C. after three days of walking and hitchhiking. [4]

5. Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union - Wikipedia

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   Horse and buggy (circa 1910) helped union members make their deliveries. The NMDU grew out of the Newsboys' strike of 1899.On October 29, 1901, the union formed. "It was born as a union of horse-and-buggy newspaper deliverymen at the turn of the century, a stepchild of the fledgling labor movement and New York's yellow journalism wars."

6. History of American newspapers - Wikipedia

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   The New England Courant, the 7 August 1721 front page. It was James Franklin (1697–1735), Benjamin Franklin's older brother, who first made a news sheet something more than a garbled mass of stale items, "taken from the Gazette and other Public Prints of London" some six months late.

7. Newspaper - Wikipedia

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   Newspaper organizations need a large distribution system to deliver their papers to these different distributors, which typically involves delivery trucks and delivery people. In recent years, newspapers and other media have adapted to the changing technology environment by starting to offer online editions to cater to the needs of the public.