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Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the person on a railway train who sells papers, magazines, refreshments, etc.
Quotations
1880
For sale by the news agents. Try them. . . .
1912
The main passenger trains in this country are provided with a newsagent, a loquacious individual who continually walks from one end of the train to the other selling papers, tobacco, and candies.
1958
The Commons Monday heard a complaint that persons suffering from communicable diseases are allowed to travel alongside the sandwich-dispensing news agents on the CPR's Kettle Valley run in British Columbia.