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Paper, Mister?
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 06/11/2007 - 6:10pm.
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Waco, Texas. September 1913. "Eight-year-old newsie. Many youngsters get up early to sell papers. One 10-year-old starts out at 3 A.M. every day and goes to school." View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
shoes
Submitted by k on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 8:37am.
Alot of kids wounldnt have worn shoes. They were expensive and kids would be told to go barefoot when they could to keep their shoes from getting worn out to quickly. They would have worn shoes for things like school or church if they went. My dad was born in the early 40s to a very poor family, and he told me that even then shoes were hard to afford, and his family was often barefoot.
It's okay to be a paper boy
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 06/12/2007 - 1:49pm.
While I don't have a problem with kids selling papers, I really wish he had shoes. Maybe I'm just a sissy who doesn't like to get his feet dirty and step on sharp things but I didn't realize shoes were that expensive. He is wearing a tie though.
What happened to them?
Submitted by Gary on Mon, 06/11/2007 - 11:43pm.
I always wonder, what became of these kids, what did they become and when did they die?
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