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Text Updates 1.0 -- street urchins hawking broadsheets.
December 1909. "Some of Newark's small newsboys. Afternoon." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. View full size.
Somebody ought to write a musical about those kids.
We had it delivered every afternoon throughout the '50's and into the '60's--a great local paper, and a mainstay of my youth that got me interested in reading newspapers, besides having the comics I loved. I remember a daily feature on the front page --"The Toll"--showing the number of Americans who died in traffic accidents year-to-date. Rather frightening. Wonder if I'm related to any of those boys??
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