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Definition of Newsgirls
1. newsgirl [n] - See also: newsgirl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Newsgirls
Literary usage of Newsgirls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1911)
"... lodging houses for newsboys 111(l newsgirls, industrial schools for P°°'_
children, summer sanitariums for ..."
2. Child Labor in City Streets by Edward Nicholas Clopper (1912)
"... the ages of ten and fourteen years they should be licensed and not allowed to
sell after 8 PM The newsgirls were not banished from the street because it ..."
3. Correction and Prevention by Eugene. Smith, Hastings Hornell Hart (1910)
"In the city of New York, the society established homes for newsboys and newsgirls,
and several industrial schools for poor children. ..."
4. European Reminiscences, Musical and Otherwise: Being the Recollections of by Louis Charles Elson (1914)
"The newsboys and newsgirls in the city, and at the depot, were folding and
arranging their papers; ..."
5. Preventive Treatment of Neglected Children by Hastings Hornell Hart (1910)
"In the city of New York, the society established homes for newsboys and newsgirls,
and several industrial schools for poor children. ..."
6. The Diseases of Society: The Vice and Crime Problem by George Frank Lydston (1906)
"... years ago there was a large number of newsgirls plying their trade in the
vicinity of Chicago's greatest business corner. These children varied from six ..."
7. Paris Reborn: A Study in Civic Psychology by Herbert Adams Gibbons (1915)
"... was accused by the newsboys and newsgirls of wanting to rob them of their only
means of subsistence, and was insulted until strength and nerve failed. ..."
8. The Child Labor Bulletin by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) (1914)
"... that Utah and New Hampshire apply the sixteen-year limit to newsgirls only
and allow girls to black boots at twelve years and ten years respectively! ..."
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