GC316YK Traditional Cache September 4th~Newspaper Carrier Day
Type: Traditional | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: Imusttravel2000 @ | Hide Date: 07/30/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 29.375 W104° 12.441 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
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Newspaper Carrier Day honors everyone who is now, or once was, a
newspaper carrier. The list includes thousands, if not millions, of
people. Years ago, this job was primarily populated by kids, from
pre-teen through approximately sixteen. At that age, many, but not
all, kids moved to restaurant, grocery store and retail type of
jobs.



This day commemorates the hiring of the very first newspaper
carrier. Newspaper carriers date back to the early 1800s. On
September 10, 1833, 10 year old Barney Flaherty became the first
newspaper carrier. Benjamin Day, publisher of The New York Sun,
hired Barney Flaherty to sell papers for his penny press. The only
job requirement, was that he had to show that he could throw a
newspaper into the bushes.




Now, few kids deliver papers anymore except in small towns. But,
but the "Carrier Day" tradition lives. This job is now largely held
by adults, many of them delivering the paper from their cars.

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Found it 11/24/2018 By mm&mm
Out here playing with the deer and antelope. TFTC BigSmile

Found it 09/04/2018 By Mean Kitty
Find #49219

Its been a long hot summer in Texas, I've been trying to get out and do a caching trip a couple of times this summer, but it never worked out. Finally managed to get a week off, and am so happy to be out here in Colorado. The weather if perfect, and there is a load of caches that need my name on Smile Thanks so much for the hide imusttravel2000, I really enjoyed finiding this cache!

Found it 05/07/2018 By Cache Dipper
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Found it 05/07/2018 By reforestgrrl
Park and grab. Thanks!

Found it 04/28/2018 By Brewman65
Had a nice visit to Colorado, and found a lot of caches

Found it 10/13/2017 By L O S T - S O U L
TFTC

Enjoying another day traversing the countryside, acquiring many miles and boosting cache numbers and others in between along the power trails!
Nothing better than caching along the back country roads of America! Thanks for placing these out here. Most were in good shape in these sections however i did replaced wet logs and broken containers as needed. Initialed logs

Found it 04/23/2017 By Rohatx
They have Longhorns out here
TFTC!
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