The newsboy doggedly hawking papers for pennies on city streets was once a staple of American life, an icon of unflagging industry
Thomas Edison was one. So were Harry Houdini, Herbert Hoover, W.C.
Fields, Walt Disney, Benjamin Franklin, Jackie Robinson, Walter Winchell, Thomas Wolfe, Jack London, Knute Rockne, Harry Truman, John Wayne, Warren Buffett and many more familiar names. Besides being illustrious Americans, these men shared a calling—growing up, they were newsboys, delivering newspapers to subscribers or, more colorfully, hawking them on the streets for a couple of pennies, real money in those days.
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