Word: newsboy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burton. President of the University of Michigan, is more than a tragedy. It is a loss that can only be estimated in light of the brilliant performances of his all too short life. In the end that very virtue which was the cause of his phenomenal rise from a newsboy in two streets of Minneapolis to President of three of our largest universities was the cause of his death. Even his tremendous athletic frame could not stand the strains he placed upon it. Work was his idol, his mettle, and finally his master...
...page 30 of your issue of Dec. 29 you state that "Thomas Alva Edison started life as a newsboy." I was surprised to learn that Mr. Edison had been such a precocious infant. It would not have been so startling had you merely said he started life as a barefoot boy, but a newsboy?that is too much...
...twice called from the plough to the Dictatorship of -and twice returned to it; Rousseau was a son of a humble Geneva watchmaker; the famed Dr. Johnson was a son of a poor bookseller; Christopher Columbus helped his father to comb wool; Thomas Alva Edison started life as a newsboy; John Keats, before he became a medical student, used to help his father tend the horses at the Swan and Hoop livery stables; Mohammed was a lowly caravan conductor...
...played. There was no other service. Mr. O'Bannion is credited by the police with having directed 25 of Chicago's most distinguished murders- by his friends with innumerable secret charities, kindnesses. Said an old woman: "He put my boy on the right track." Said a newsboy: "He was a swell feller." Said Mayor Dever of Chicago: "The rule of the Gat is ended." Died. Edwin S. Montagu, 45, onetime Secretary of State for India; in London. He held his portfolio in the Lloyd George cabinet...
...boast is legitimate, as no other paper on Thursday, Oct. 16, more than approached The Times in solidity. The Chicago Daily News, however, with 48 pages was large enough to be a considerable burden to a newsboy; The Chicago Tribune had 36 with which to swell a business man's pocket; The New York World and The New York Herald-Tribune each provided 32 for the littering of breakfast tables, Pullmans or wherenot. Other papers whose bulk did not forbid their being folded by an active man in any conveniently clear space were The Kansas City Star with...