Word: newsboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...share was $13,000. But he had left home years before, after a quarrel. Last Bob & Dan heard of him, he was peddling shoelaces and razor blades around Pittsburgh. Last week Court of Missing Heirs broadcast Gee Jordan's case. In Pittsburgh, a 63-year-old "newsboy" friend of 52 -year-old Gee heard the broadcast, located him, sick, in a $2-a-week furnished room. At week's end, near-toothless, gnarled Gee Jordan rose on his crutches, spruced up, eyed Florida as the place to end his days...
Died. Isaac Meltzer, fiftyish, known to thousands of U. S. tourists as the hyper-peppy U. S. newsboy at Paris' Café de la Paix, in winter at Cannes and Nice; by leaping from the window of the Paris office of the New York Times...