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• Long before his days sketching Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney and his brother Roy were newspaper carriers in Kansas City. At the age of 9, Walt was up at 4:30 every day delivering The Kansas City Star for no pay, as his father, who owned the newspaper distributorship, felt it helped Walt earn his keep while learning responsibility. He delivered his quota, but sold extra newspapers on street corners for extra cash. He further expanded his income by delivering prescriptions for the local drugstore. • In his later years, Disney honored carriers by giving anyone who could bring in three new subscriptions a special Disneyland passport for free entry to the Park. One boy, Dave Smith, could only achieve two subscriptions, but desperately wanted the Passport, so he invented a subscription and paid for it himself. Oddly enough, Smith went on to become the chief archivist at the Disney Company, as well as one of Walt’s first biographers. • At 13, billionaire Warren Buffett was delivering The Washington Post on his bicycle for $175 a month, more than the teachers at his school earned. When he filed his income taxes, he made sure to claim his bicycle as a $35 deduction. When he graduated from high school in 1947, his savings amounted to $5,000, the equivalent of about $54,000 today. With a net worth of an estimated $87 billion, Buffett is still involved in the newspaper business, owning several, as well as being one of the largest shareholders in that Washington, D.C. paper he delivered as a teenager. He pays tribute to his paperboy days by conducting a newspaper-throwing contest at his annual Berkshire shareholder meetings. ...cont'd
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• It seems that newscaster Tom Brokaw has always had a love of the news. Beginning as a paperboy in South Dakota, he went on to become one of the “Big Three” news anchors, hosting NBC nightly news for over 20 years. Television celebrity Ed Sullivan advanced from his carrier job to a newspaper sportswriter before hosting his TV variety show. His show first featured the Beatles on American television on February 9, 1964, the most-watched program in TV history to date. • At least three American presidents had paper routes – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry Truman, and Herbert Hoover. • For every famous carrier, there are many times more unknown heroes of the industry. While delivering papers in Springfield, Ohio, carrier Carl Thomas happened to glance through a front door and saw his 69-year-old customer face down on the floor. Thanks to an immediate call to 911, the woman, who had fallen, was rescued. North Carolina newspaper carrier Elizabeth Bradley saved her 88-year-old customer after hearing her calling for help and discovering the elderly women injured in her back yard. • After an armed robber held up a Georgia gas station, a local newspaper carrier followed the thief and led police to the suspect, resulting in the villain’s arrest. A Racine, Wisconsin, carrier was the first on the scene of a fire in the home of one of his customers, and quickly notified firefighters. • A Rapid City, South Dakota, carrier noticed newspapers piling up on her elderly client’s porch, and was moved to investigate. After Linda Uranga-Moran contacted the local police, the customer, who had fallen in the bathtub, was discovered there where she had lain for three days.
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• Of course, there are always those who give the others a bad name, for example, the New York state carrier who was selling marijuana as well as newspapers along his route. And another carrier who had an argument with one of his customers, and stabbed the client! • Darlyne Markus of Nampa, Idaho, started delivering The Idaho Press-Tribune on a daily basis in 1958 at age 29. The subscription price was $1.25 a month, and Darlyne’s route meandered along for 42 miles. She finally retired in 2008 at the age of 79, after delivering papers on the same route for 50 years and 173 days, making her the longest-serving carrier. At her retirement, some of her customers were the originals from 1958. • In 1960, the International Circulation Managers Association created the Newspaper Carrier Hall of Fame to salute famous carriers in our history. In addition to Disney and Buffett, the Hall includes astronaut John Glenn, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, baseball great Willie Mays, entrepreneur Ross Perot, actor John Wayne, and fighter ace Eddie Rickenbacker. Civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., who delivered The Atlanta Journal, is also in the Hall of Fame. King, who spent his paychecks on books, was just 13 when he became the youngest assistant manager of the paper’s newspaper delivery station. • From the days of young teens riding their bikes in the early morning hours, tossing papers on the porch, the job of newspaper carrier has transitioned to adults in their cars sticking papers in the mailbox. In fact, adults in cars now make up close to 85% of paper routes.
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• The company, (which would soon become the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company when Holmes sold his interests just two years later for $100,000) had hired teenage boys as operators. Although the boys had been quite successful as telegraph operators, it was clearly a mistake to use them for person-to-person contact, as they were often rude and impatient with the customers, and delighted in making prank calls and cursing over the phone lines. The boys, (which included Emma’s future husband George), appeared to lack the tolerance for dealing with an average of 120 calls per hour for eight hours a day. • Telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell personally hired 18-year-old Emma Nutt away from her job at a telegraph office, believing her soothing, polite, and cultured voice was the answer to the boys’ lack of manners. Her behavior was immediately praised, and within a few hours, the second female operator had been hired – Emma’s sister Stella. By the 1880s, the job was exclusively female, and by 1920, more than 177,000 female telephone operators were on the job in America.
• Emma’s salary was $10 per month for a 54-hour work week of inserting phone plugs into the correct jacks. She and the other operators did receive the benefit of an hour for lunch. However, toward the end of Emma’s 35+ year career, conditions for operators were worsening. The women were frequently forced to work two shifts in one day, with an unpaid, three-hour break between. Minor mistakes were punished with detention. In 1919, four years after Emma’s retirement, New England’s night shift operators walked off the job, crippling the five states in the New England region. After a five-day strike, management settled with the workers, conferring higher wages, better hours, and union recognition. • In 2000, an automated speech-enabled attendant system was created by Preferred Voice and Philips Electronics. The system, which introduced advanced voice recognition technology that replicated the human voice, was named EMMA in honor of this pioneer in the telephone industry.
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• Emma reported for her first day of work at the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston, Massachusetts on September 1, 1878. Edwin Holmes, a businessman who established the first burglar alarm networks, had just become president of the newlyestablished Bell Telephone Company.
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• The requirements for the job were very strict, including an age requirement of 17 to 26, and an unmarried status. There were height, weight, and arm length tests, to ensure that the women could reach the top of the tall switchboard and could work in tight quarters. “Prim and proper” appearance was expected, along with perfect posture for long hours in a hard, straight-back chair. During a typical day, Emma repeated “Number, please” hundreds of times, and reportedly could remember every number in the New England Telephone Company directory. She was not permitted to communicate with other operators while on duty.
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• In the wild, you can find tigers in the dry forests, tropical forests, and flooded mangrove forests of Asia. However, the Siberian tiger likes the northern, colder areas of eastern Russia and northern China. • Just as every human has different fingerprints, no two tigers are alike in the pattern of their stripes. The most familiar tiger, of course, is orange with black stripes, but others are black with tan stripes, or white with tan stripes. There are even all white albino tigers. The rare gene carried by white tigers is present in just 1 in every 10,000 tigers. • The largest of the tiger species, the Siberian, reaches lengths of 10.75 feet and weights of 660 lbs. The long tail can add up to 3.6 feet to a tiger’s overall length. Even with their massive size, they can run up to 40 mph at full speed. And although it’s strange to think of a swimming cat, tigers like the water and are good swimmers. • Tigers usually hunt at night, and are usually alone in their quest for their prey. Their strictly-carnivorous diet consists of deer, wild pigs, antelope, and buffalo. They stalk their victims, then quickly pounce, clamping down on the animal’s neck or back of the head with teeth up to 3 inches long. Tigers are fast and they’re ferocious, but still have a 90% failure rate of catching their prey.
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• While tigers are capable of quietly stalking prey, the sound of their roar can’t be ignored. It can be heard as far as 1.85 miles away!
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