{"id":706,"date":"2013-01-07T19:01:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T01:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=706"},"modified":"2013-01-07T19:01:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T01:01:06","slug":"newsboys-from-joplins-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Newsboys from Joplin&#8217;s Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Joplin&#8217;s early history, at any one time there were at least two city newspapers, if not more, fighting for the attention of Joplin&#8217;s residents.\u00a0 Crucial to this battle for attention spans, were the foot soldiers of the papers, the newsboys.\u00a0 We have previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=62\">covered Joplin&#8217;s oldest newsboy<\/a>, and today we bring you three photographs of newboys who belonged to the<em> Joplin News Herald<\/em> at the turn of the century.\u00a0 The three boys photographed below were the top three winners in a contest to sell the most newspapers in a two week period.\u00a0 The winner was ten year old Allen Harris, who lived at 411 Pennsylvannia Ave and was described as &#8220;the happiest boy in Joplin.&#8221;\u00a0 Reportedly, there was no ill will against Harris, who was the youngest contestant, and had loss two fingers to a dynamite cap explosion the previous fall.\u00a0 Harris sold 580 papers to win.\u00a0 Second place went to &#8216;newsie&#8217; Shiloh Patton, who sold 579 papers, and third place went to Harry Bacon, who sold 561.\u00a0 For his victory, Harris won a brand new watch and his photo in the paper.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8505\/8358891727_673b598558.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8505\/8358891727_673b598558.jpg\" width=\"254\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Harrison, the winner of the contest.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8467\/8358891629_1c8d3a4aff_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8467\/8358891629_1c8d3a4aff_z.jpg\" width=\"279\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">2nd place winner, Shiloh Patton.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8500\/8358891413_b64c5212d0_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8500\/8358891413_b64c5212d0_z.jpg\" width=\"279\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Third place winner, Harry Bacon.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Joplin&#8217;s early history, at any one time there were at least two city newspapers, if not more, fighting for the attention of Joplin&#8217;s residents.\u00a0 Crucial to this battle for attention spans, were the foot soldiers of the papers, the newsboys.\u00a0 We have previously covered Joplin&#8217;s oldest newsboy, and today we bring you three photographs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35],"tags":[2763,2762,328,31,132,2761,427,1230,2760,242,1079,2764],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}