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New Year's Address Obs. 
a greeting, usually in rhyme, issued by newspaper carrier-boys to their patrons on the first day of each year, at which time they expected a Christmas box.
See also: News Boy's Address
- 1767 [The New-Year Verses Of the Printers Lad, who carries about the Quebec Gazette to the Customers.]
- 1805 The New Year's Address of the Boy who carries the Quebec Gazette to the Subscribers.
- 1826 New Year's Address, to the Patrons of the Novascotian.
- 1868 The Carrier Boy's New Year's Address to the Readers of the Constitutional.
- 1767 [The New-Year Verses Of the Printers Lad, who carries about the Quebec Gazette to the Customers.]