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Newspaper hawker. 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.
Newsboy, an airplane that delivered newspapers for the McCook Gazette in Nebraska, U.S. Newsboy, a steam schooner acquired in 1895 by American Robert Dollar. Newsboy, a 1994 bicycle model made by Merlin.
The newsboys' strike of 1899 was a U.S. youth-led campaign to facilitate change in the way that Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst 's newspapers compensated their force of newsboys or newspaper hawkers. The strikers demonstrated across New York City for several days, effectively stopping circulation of the two papers, along with the ...
Paperboy. A paperboy is someone – often an older child or adolescent – who distributes printed newspapers to homes or offices on a regular route, usually by bicycle or automobile. In Western nations during the heyday of print newspapers during the early 20th century, this was often a young person's first job, perhaps undertaken before or ...
History of American newspapers. The history of American newspapers begins in the early 18th century with the publication of the first colonial newspapers. American newspapers began as modest affairs—a sideline for printers. They became a political force in the campaign for American independence. Following independence the first amendment to U ...
The Newport Daily News (originally published as The Newport Mercury in 1758) Hartford Courant (1764, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States) The Register Star (Hudson, New York, 1785) Poughkeepsie Journal (1785) The Augusta Chronicle (1785) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (July 1786) Daily Hampshire Gazette (September 1784)
The following are weekly or semi-weekly newspapers published in Alabama: The Alabama Baptist - Birmingham. Birmingham Business Journal - Birmingham. Daleville Sun-Courier - Daleville. The Dekalb Advertiser - Fort Payne. Lagniappe - Mobile. The North Jefferson News - Gardendale. The Southeast Sun - Enterprise.
The Chief (public service weekly) City & State (public service bi-weekly) Columbia Daily Spectator (weekly) Crain's New York Business (weekly) Der Blatt (Yiddish-language weekly) Der Yid (Yiddish-language weekly) Duo Wei Times (Chinese-language) El Diario La Prensa (Spanish-language daily) Empire State News (daily)