DCHP-3

New Year's Address

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a greeting, usually in rhyme, issued by newspaper carrier-boys to their patrons on the first day of each year, at which time they expected a Christmas box.

Quotations

1767
[The New-Year Verses Of the Printers Lad, who carries about the Quebec Gazette to the Customers.]
1805
The New Year's Address of the Boy who carries the Quebec Gazette to the Subscribers.
1826
New Year's Address, to the Patrons of the Novascotian.
1868
The Carrier Boy's New Year's Address to the Readers of the Constitutional.