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A postal telegraph messenger with his bike.A five-year-old boy next to a pile of oyster shells.A newspaper boy wearing a hat.Barefoot girls carrying food.A mill girl next to a huge spinning machine.A ten-year-old boy next to a tobacco plant.A girl sitting with other kids, rolling cigars.A girl standing in a factory, hammering a basket.A small boy with a huge bag of newspapers.
Snapshot

What If...
the bag you had to carry around all day weighed half of your total weight?


A small boy with a huge bag of newspapers.

Who:

A 5 or 6 year old boy named Freddie Kafer sells newspapers and the Saturday Evening Post. Bags of newspapers could weigh 20 pounds or more.

Where:

Sacramento, California

When:

May 1915

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