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His name was Charles Edward Dassett; he was a shopboy in his father’s art-supply business.
From Salon • Jul. 22, 2012
After he got his journeyman's certificate, the Ellis shopboy set out to see what other railroad shops, and the western world to which the railroads ran, were like.
From Time Magazine Archive
Born in Hoboken, NJ. in 1894, Alfred Charles Kinsey was the son of a self-made man who had started as a shopboy at Stevens Institute of Technology, and later headed its department of mechanical arts.
From Time Magazine Archive
"What! madam," says poor Crump, "don't you remember your shopboy?"
From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace
The garrulous paragraph, the graphic line, Poster and portrait, telegram and tale, Make shopboy eager and domestics pale.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 23, 1892 by Various
