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In a phrase, the post card which pictures "E 9436 Grave of John Charteris" is among the seven similar misinterpretations of localities most frequently demanded in Lichfieldian drugstores and news-stands. Her victoria had paused a trifle farther up the hill, where two big sycamores overhung the roadway.
Must have slept well." "Make it rested, and I'll go you," he came back cheerfully. He'd already been out, going down to the Grant Avenue corner for an assortment of Bay cities papers not to be had at the hotel news-stands, so that he could see whether our canny announcement of Clayte's fifteen thousand dollar defalcation had received discreet attention from the Associated Press.
I don't know. You'll find them in the 'Clipper, though. They all advertise in that." "Is that a paper?" said Carrie. "Yes," said the clerk, marveling at such ignorance of a common fact. "You can get it at the news-stands," he added politely, seeing how pretty the inquirer was. Carrie proceeded to get the "Clipper," and tried to find the agents by looking over it as she stood beside the stand.
At every step you see news-stands filled with the sharp critical journalism of Spain, often ignorant and unjust, but generally courteous in expression and independent in thought.
"I'm glad to hear that," returned Marrineal with gravity. "After I'd made my estimate of what the newspapers publish and fail to publish, I canvassed the circulation lists and news-stands and made another discovery. There is a large potential reading public not yet tied up to any newspaper. It's waiting for the right paper."
On the other hand, following the distribution of papers as they issue from the press, we think of news-boys, news-stands, mail-service, railroads, and postoffices.
They wrecked a couple of book-stores, and then, breaking up into small groups, they inspected all the news-stands in the city, and wherever they found Red magazines like the Nation or the New Republic, they tore up the copies and threatened the agents with arrest.
On chance news-stands were displayed newspapers in Russian, Bohemian, Arabic, Italian, Hebrew, Polish, German-none in English. The theatre bills were in Hebrew or other unreadable type. The sidewalks and the streets swarmed with noisy dealers in every sort of second-hand merchandise vegetables that had seen a better day, fish in shoals.
This meant that he earned, or tried to earn, an income by acting as broker for people who wanted to sell or buy soda-and-cigarette stands, news-stands, laundries, grocery-stores, delicatessen-stores, butcher shops, cigar-stores, book-stores, and what not, from a peddier's push-cart to a "parcel" of real estate or an interest in a small factory.
Its subscription list was not enlarged in the slightest measure, and The Atlantic Monthly languished on the news-stands as undesired as ever.
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