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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 ...
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 ...
The newspaper owners paid grown men to sell their papers, offering them police protection, but the strikers often found ways to distract the officers so they could get at the "scabs." [ 13 ] Women and girls fared a little better because, as union leader Kid Blink put it, "A feller can't soak a lady."
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Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt resigned from his contributing columnist role at The Washington Post on Friday after storming off the newspaper’s live show over a disagreement with his ...
The Middletown Times, daily newspaper in Middletown during 1913-1914 [6] or during 1914-January 1915 [4] The Middletown Tribune, Republican newspaper in Middletown, Connecticut including 1893-1906, daily ex. Sun [6] [4] News and Advertiser, including 1851-1854, weekly [4] Penny Press, including 1884-1939, daily ex. Sun. [4]
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A violent menace repeatedly slashed a 46-year-old straphanger in an unprovoked early-morning attack on a Manhattan subway train Tuesday, cops said. The victim was riding a southbound No. 2 at West ...