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Hobo News, alternately "Hobo" News, was an early 20th-century newspaper for homeless migrant workers. It was published in St. Louis, Missouri, and Cincinnati by the International Brotherhood Welfare A
Cover of the "Hobo" News in the late 1910s
A 1946 issue of The Hobo News (1936–1948)
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Street newspapers are newspapers or magazines sold by homeless or poor individuals and produced mainly to support these populations. Most such newspapers primarily provide coverage about homelessness
Hobo News
…IBWA) and its founder James Eads How. Hobo News was important for legitimatizing the hobo identity and has been credited as a predecessor to the modern street newspaper movement. Hobo News was published monthly with 16 pages and no advertisements, and was distributed by street sellers for five cents in bohemian areas…
A street newspaper vendor, selling Street Sheet, in San Francisco
A vendor for Straatnieuws in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands
A vendor for StreetWise in Chicago