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St. Nick’s Newsboys Shine In Library’s Photos

One Of Detroit's Finest Plays St. Nick For Motown's Newsboys, 1931.(All Photos Courtesy of Walter P. Reuther Library's Virtual Motor City Collection, Wayne State University.)Wayne State University's Walter P. Reuther Library has got the scoop on a holiday story straight out of "The Dead End Kids." Motor City angels with dirty faces--former newsboys-- make good but can't forget the old neighborhood. Every Christmas they go back to the same mean street corners where they once shouted "Extra! Extra!" and raise enough cash to stuff the empty stockings of every Detroit kiddie full of gifts. Sounds like something straight of a...

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