NEWS BUTCHER TO SENATOR, THE ROAD TROD BY COUZENS; LOVED HIS 12 HOUR JOB Sold Popcorn on Road Where T.A. Edison Got a Start EARLY TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS Calls Himself "Lonesomest Mayor" Because Rule of No Favors Cut Calling List.
Date: 10 December 1922
By James C. Young
James Young
THERE must be some special destiny which guards over news butchers and messenger boys, judging by the number of them who have come to prominence in American life. For a long time Thomas A. Edison has been the living exemplar of ambition achieved for all news butchers.