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News Boy'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: New Year's Address  

  • 1808  The News Boy's Address, To the Patrons of the Canadian Courant.
  • 1827  [Heading] The gazette and U.E. Loyalist News Boy's Address to His Patrons, 1827.