CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY News Service Instructions to News Agents.

Canadian Pacific Railway: Montreal. 1st May, 1911. Item #99-0794

6 x 4, printed stapled wraps, 8 pp. Creasing, light soiling and toning, back cover ink pen scribbles else good. The "News Service" was started up in 1910 ? to run newsstands at the various railway stations; employed at these locations were staff nicknamed "Newsies" who sold newspapers, sandwiches, soda pop, etc., to the passengers. Some of the "chapters": Contraband Goods; Dead-Heading; Obscene Literature, Post Cards, etc.; Tobacco and Liquor.

Price: $20.00

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