When I was maybe 10, I used to pull a wooden newspaper cart — with metal wheels and handle — up and down the streets of south St. Louis selling the Post-Dispatch and Globe-Democrat newspapers.
The weekday Post cost 7 cents; the Sunday edition 25. We’d get 1 ½ cents for each weekday paper sold; 5 cents for each Sunday paper. I’ve always loved the smell of newsprint.
In college at George Washington University, I remember opening the textbook in my first journalism class and there it was under the heading: Top newspapers in the United States.