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This a transcipt of an article in the newspaper Titbits from 1895. It is called 'A Day in the Life of a Telegraph Boy: An article for boys, written by one of them'. It is a perfect document for understanding working conditions for child workers in the late Victorian period.

Section - Newspaper transcript, 1895 (PDF, 101KB)