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Familiar in the U. S. saga, glorified by literature of the Horatio Alger school, is the newsboy. The soul of independence, he buys his papers with his own money, sells them by his own energy and wits, pockets the profits for himself or hands them over to his needy family. He often grows into a tycoon who in later years can point with pride to his youthful enterprise.* For the Curtis-Martin newspapers of Philadelphia the tradition of newsboy self-reliance was a saving fact last week. It prompted a State Supreme Court decision permitting the newspapers to deal with...
...newsboy. At the age when he might have been in college, he was touring most of the U. S., on trains and on foot, restlessly acquiring knowledge...
...Manhattan inspectors of the pigeons' guts found that the birds had fed on poisoned grain, spread on windowsills by a newsboy who, from some neurotic twist, hated pigeons...
Died. William L. McLean, 79, onetime Pittsburgh newsboy, publisher since 1895 of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin; of old age; in Germantown, Pa. Lest it bias his editorial views he would have no business interest but his paper. He saved big headlines for big news, shunned premiums as circulation boosters, was first to distribute newspapers by automobile...
...morning last week Publisher Gannett rose very early to open the doors of the Elmira (N. Y.) Star-Gazette himself. It was a gesture of sentiment. Twenty-five years ago he, onetime newsboy, bought a half interest in the old Gazette from the late U. S. Senator David B. Hill, on meagre savings and smart financing. High-minded but not pious, Publisher Gannett built himself a great newspaper fortune not alone by the cleanness and honesty of his papers, of which he is so proud, but also by shrewdness, good sense and uncommon business nerve...