news butcher

So our wedding supper was two stale ham sandwiches from the news butcher and a bottle of soda pop, split.

Later as a newsboy he hawked newspapers and soon progressed from newsboy to "news butcher" aboard Pennsylvania Railroad passenger trains selling papers, sandwiches, cigars and sundries.

The depot is owned and operated by the Port Huron Museum and is the actual depot that inventor Thomas Edison worked out of as a news butcher between 1859 and 1863.

The news butcher came through and in spite of his mother, Uncle Ted bought him a glass locomotive with little bright-colored pieces of candy inside and Catherine a glass telephone with the same kind of candy inside, which his father had never done.