Talk:Hobo News

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Hobo News Review
There was also a Hobo News Review, run by Jeff Davis and his organization Hoboes of America, inspired by How and the IBWA. http://books.google.com/books?id=yZoj2kr2-OkC&pg=PA256&dq="Jeff+Davis"+hobo+news --Apoc2400 (talk) 21:29, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Image
Do you think we can copy the image at http://hobonickels.org/thenews.htm (http://hobonickels.org/books/thenews.jpg), either with a fair use claim, or as out of copyright? --Apoc2400 (talk) 21:52, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Mattisse also suggested that at Talk:Street newspaper. I ended up not bothering with it there because I didn't think it was necessary (and there are already two fair-use images there...if this is out of copyright then that wouldn't matter, but I dunno), but here it would probably be worthwhile.  We could leave a message at one of the image/copyright noticeboards asking if this is out of copyright, but I think it would be easier just to put it up as fair-use, that way we're erring on the side of caution (and it's less work anyway). r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 06:05, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh, how much I wish this picture was free: --Apoc2400 (talk) 10:12, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh wow...now that is an epic photo. It would be nice in the How article too.  I don't think we can even make a fair use claim for it, though...darn. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 13:40, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

A picture of the Hobo News sold among other worker papers:. Copyright unknown. --Apoc2400 (talk) 10:29, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK?
Street News just got on the main page, and I think this article is ready to submit to DYK too. The writing could always be nicer, but I see you fixed it up a bit, and we can leave some work for the DYK readers. Hook suggestion: --Apoc2400 (talk) 23:04, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * ... that Hobo News was a newspaper for hobos in America featuring both serious political articles and essays and poetry about hobo lore?


 * Yeah, I agree that this one is ready; I didn't want to nominate it while was up, but it's looking solid now.  Do you have any plans for the James Eads How article yet?  I was thinking, if you end up writing that within the next couple days, we could do a good double-hook for these (or triple-hook, with International Brotherhood Welfare Association); I think a hook about how How was a millionaire but decided to live as a hobo for a while would get a lot of clicks from the main page.  If you weren't planning on writing that article just now, though, don't worry, there's no need to hurry; this is just a random thought. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 06:07, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, I want to write James Eads How as well. I don't think International Brotherhood Welfare Association deserves its own DYK, but it could be used in a double-hook. I only wish the name wasn't so long. --Apoc2400 (talk) 13:33, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Ok, I went ahead and nommed them both: T:TDYK. How can probably be his own DYK a little later.  If we find the image (in the above section) to be out of copyright, we might be able to use that in the DYK hook as well...although I'm not sure if it will show up well at 100x100px. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 13:37, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I asked about the image as you saw. You should include yourself as author of the DYK too. --Apoc2400 (talk) 13:55, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Image date

 * Nice work with the image! r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 13:34, 22 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, I'm glad I found it. Do you think I can safely label it "Volume 4 Number 8, April 1919"? The image is just not clear enough to be sure. --Apoc2400 (talk) 15:04, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It looks like either 1918 or 1919 to me. If the paper really did start in 1915, then I guess it would make sense for "volume 4" to be 1918...although they could have had two volumes in one year, or something. r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs 17:01, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Second newspaper
I recall finding a copy of one of these in my grandmother's attic in Chicago back in the 1960s. It seemed to have been published during World War II, as it had numerous jokes about coping with wartime shortages. I think it was printed on different-colored sheets of newsprint, either in a consious attempt to look "patchwork," or perhaps because they used whatever leftover paper stock was available. WHPratt (talk) 21:48, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Name
Technically, as the masthead shows, the first Hobo News was called the "Hobo" News. Move over the redirect? Yngvadottir (talk) 12:59, 11 March 2016 (UTC)