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newsagent 
n. the person on a railway train who sells papers, magazines, refreshments, etc.
- 1880 For sale by the news agents. Try them. . . .
- 1912 (1914) The main passenger trains in this country are provided with a newsagent, a loquacious individual who continually walks from one end of the train to the other selling papers, tobacco, and candies.
- 1958 The Commons Monday heard a complaint that persons suffering from communicable diseases are allowed to travel alongside the sandwich-dispensing news agents on the CPR's Kettle Valley run in British Columbia.
- 1880 For sale by the news agents. Try them. . . .