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Moores, Lew. "POST NEWSBOY A ROUTE TO THE FUTURE FOR MANY.(News)." The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH). Dialog LLC. 2007. HighBeam Research. 29 Mar. 2015 <http://www.highbeam.com>.
Moores, Lew. "POST NEWSBOY A ROUTE TO THE FUTURE FOR MANY.(News)." The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH). 2007. HighBeam Research. (March 29, 2015). http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-172912599.html
Moores, Lew. "POST NEWSBOY A ROUTE TO THE FUTURE FOR MANY.(News)." The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH). Dialog LLC. 2007. Retrieved March 29, 2015 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-172912599.html
Byline: Lew Moores, Post contributor
Their routes were decidedly urban -- one sold the newspaper from the steps of City Hall in Cincinnati -- or undeniably rural, where the elements made delivery a challenge. Some of their recollections span six decades and they are witness to a changing landscape, cultural as well as physical.
William Mallory, a former powerful Ohio state representative and father of Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory, made his first buck selling The Post on the steps of Cincinnati City Hall.
Ed Watzek hawked The Post and the Times-Star (which merged with The Post in 1958) from a street corner in Clifton Heights in the mid-1940s.
Paul Meier, who has been mayor of Crestview Hills for the past nine years, was a young teen when he was doing a route as a newsboy in Covington in the mid-1960s.
Jeff Rosenfeldt has been delivering The Post in Mount Washington and Anderson Township for the past 15 years.
Mendola Colson still delivers the newspaper, has been doing it for 53 years in rural Grant County.
They can recall either making their first dollars selling The Post, or supplementing their income with a newspaper route.
Mallory was 12 years old in 1943. He and other kids in his neighborhood sold the newspaper -- and shopping bags as well at Findlay Market -- to make money. They worked as newsboys for a man whose name Mallory only recalls as Jeff. …
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