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pillowkusis on March 28, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: I’m Not “Black Enough” for Inc. Magazine

>they weren't selling on an article by article basis

there were literally newspaper boys on the streets yelling an outrageous headline and making you pay two cents to read the article itself. I don't think subscription papers existed in large amounts during that time.

nerfhammer on March 28, 2017 [–]

> newspaper boys on the streets yelling an outrageous headline

it's weirdly hilarious to me to think that urban sidewalks used to be analogous to facebook...

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