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The newsboys are coming

Now, who is this motley collection of youngsters, and what are they doing on my blog, which is (mostly) about real estate?
I can’t tell you. Not yet, anyway.
But I CAN tell you that these guys are newspaper boys from sometime around 1900 or 1910.
This picture came from the Library of Congress. I found a number of other really good pictures of young paper boys there, too.
These newspaper boys hark back to a time when the latest, freshest and most accurate news was found on the pages of the local newspaper. If you wanted to know what was going on in the world, or in your own community, or if you simply wanted the latest baseball scores, you went outside, looked up and down any city street, and you hailed the closest newsboy. There was probably more than one out there at any given moment, especially if it was close to presstime.
The newspaper boys are gone now, but their spirit still carries the latest news.
And that’s all I can tell you. But watch this space.

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