Newsboy

Examples

• By a great amount of persistence I got permission from my mother to go on the local train as a newsboy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This original method of reducing the amount of physical labor involved in watch-winding brings to mind another instance of shrewdness mentioned by Edison, with regard to his newsboy days. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The mixed train on which Edison was employed as newsboy did the way-freight work and shunting at the Mount Clemens station, about half an hour being usually spent in the work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The newsboy found an old hand-press and began to print a paper himself, called the _Grand Trunk Herald_, and sold it to the employees and regular passengers on his line. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Clemens station agent, the life of whose child Edison had saved when a train newsboy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is not generally known that Edison, in addition to being a newsboy and a contributor to the technical press, has also been a backer and an angel for various publications. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He has been showing it ever since the days when he was a newsboy on the trains of the Canadian Grand Trunk Railroad and the Michigan Central. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• About the time the Civil War began the newsboy adopted a new idea in his business. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He studied the subject in his shop in the corner of the baggage-car, during the scant moments when he was neither printer nor newsboy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I received permission to put a newsboy on this train. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The newsboys are smart there, just as they are elsewhere. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It was curious to see newsboys selling papers in so dreamy a land as that. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Others are used by newsboys, egg farmers, housewives, undertakers, dentists, judges in automobile races, and by persons in a thousand different lines of business. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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