DCHP-3

News Boy'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

1808
The News Boy's Address, To the Patrons of the Canadian Courant.
1827
[Heading] The gazette and U.E. Loyalist News Boy's Address to His Patrons, 1827.