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The banner-men and lithographers who were to work in town had not been awakened. Phil wished them to get all the sleep possible; so, with Teddy's help, he loaded the paper on the wagon and sent the driver away with it. Then he awakened the rest of the men. Phil briefly explained what had happened. "Now, I want all hands to turn out at once.
Edgar B. P. Darlington - The Circus Boys on the Plains : or, the Young Advance Agents Ahead of the Show

Since the police have banished the banner-men from the side-walks, the various trades have taken to representing themselves in odd costumes on the backs of ambitious patterers. Just now walking awnings, barber's poles, whalebones, etc., are the rage.
James Dabney McCabe - The Secrets of the Great City

The advertisement in the daily or weekly papers, the placard on the walls or boardings, the perambulating vans and banner-men, and the doomed hosts of bottle-imps and extinguishers, however successful each may be in attracting the gaze and securing the patronage of the multitude, fail, for the most part, of enlisting the confidence of a certain order of customers, who, having plenty of money to spend, and a considerable share of vanity to work upon, are among the most hopeful fish that fall into the shopkeeper's net.
Various - Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434: Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852
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