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Title: America's oldest daily newspaper. The New York Globe
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Globe and commercial advertiser, New York
Subjects: Globe and commercial advertiser New York (N.Y.)
Publisher: (New York)
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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the ordinance in thefollowing fashion: Oyes! Oyes! Oyes! This is to give noticeTo all Hog-s, Pig-s, Swine, and their masters.That from the first of February, 89,If any person suffer his, her, or their SwineTo g-allop about the streets at largeFull twenty shillings is the charge For each offense,To be paid (by firm and special orderOf our good Aldermen and Recorder)To the informers use, with all expense.Otherwise he shall be free to dineUpon the said arrested Swine,Send them to jail, or give to the Poor,For which The Lord increase His store. Among the curious figures that might have been seen in 1793 uponNew York streets were the milkmen, who wore a yoke, with a tin kettlesuspended from each side by a chain. Their cry was originally Milk,ho! but it degenerated in various peculiar sounds, which their customersalone understood. The Bakers and the Bellman. Then there were the bakers who used tall, round baskets for theirbread, which some carried on their backs, some pushed in an oblong 37
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WALL AND WATER STREETS IN 1793. The building at the left Is the famous Tontine Coffee House, nearly opposite which The Minerva was published. 88 wagon. Their cry was Bread! when family bread alone was used; butfor cakes they had various cries, including tea-rusk and hot-cross bunsand gingerbread. . . . The bellman, as he was called, the street scav-enger, in his rounds, was a noisy and often entertaining as well as usefulmember of the city government. In cadence with his bell would he giveforth songs of various burdens, slow, fast, and with and without chorus.He was .regarded as the best and vagrant comedian of the district assignedto him, ever merry, ever ready with a good joke or a good word. Thewomen and young girls ever received him with a laugh, and with a tend-ency to mischief. More picturesque, even, were the chimney sweepers of those days;generally young Negro boys, who, dark as they were, were made blackerby the quantity of soot which covered them and the old clothes they wor

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