Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
There were newsboy strikes several years before the events of 1899, including those in 1886, [3] 1887, [4] and 1889. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The last notable strike that the newsboys held against the World and the Journal was in August 1889 .
Newsboy or news boy may refer to: Newspaper hawker, a street vendor of newspapers; Paperboy or papergirl, youngsters who distributed newspapers to subscribers; People
Newsboys (sometimes stylised as newsboys) are a Christian rock band founded in 1985 in Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia, by Peter Furler and George Perdikis. Now based in Nashville, Tennessee, the band has released 17 studio albums, 6 of which have been certified gold.
Abe "The Newsboy" Hollandersky (December 3, 1888 – November 1, 1966) was an American professional boxer who won the Panamanian national Heavyweight Title when he defeated Californian Jack Ortega in nine rounds in Panama City on May 30, 1913.
The Newsboy is a bronze sculpture of a newspaper carrier in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The statue, created by artist Bruce Hanners, is located outside the 8 on the Square condominium building, on Broad Street in the Capitol Square area of downtown Columbus.
Title Year Album Other release(s) Songwriter(s) Lead vocal(s) Christian peak AC peak CHR peak Rock peak "He's Coming Back" 1987 Read All About It
The newsboy cap, newsie cap, 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 attaching the ...