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The newsboy was always a good source of information in those days. Like the cops are today. Since the automobile come in, you’d be surprised to know how many kinds o’ questions are asked of the cops. But the newsboy was the original. You could find out from us almost anything you wanted to know, where the saloons were—only you didn’t have to ask much about them—, the location of the gambling joints, the whorehouses, almost anything, from the location of the First National Bank to the best place to got a piece of tail cheap.