Word: heckman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newsboys are also newspapermen, and a true old timer is San Antonio's Horace Greeley J. Heckman, a stoop-shouldered, loose-jointed, slap-happy gaffer of 64, who has been selling the Light on the corner of Travis and North St. Mary's Streets for the past 17 years. Newsboy Heckman says he is an M.A. (for Master Accountant), has worked in eight banks and sold newspapers in New York, California, Mexico, South America and at the Paris Exposition of 1900. He wears an old straw hat and baggy breeches, drinks "sulfur water" out of a whiskey bottle...
Feeling pleased with himself about that, Newsboy Heckman next set about selling his papers, delivering himself thuswise: "They're scrapping the treaties! They'll scrap anything! But they CAIN'T scrap the LORD! He's here to stay! John L. Lewis shouldn't 'a' done it! Old Cactus Jack is all right! My Goodness! My Goodness...
Catching sight of a young woman, Newsboy Heckman accompanied her for half a block, declaring: "The Lord's your shepherd! The Lord's your shepherd! My Goodness, you're getting better looking every day!" After such outbursts police often take him to jail to cool off for a spell...