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How times have changed. I visited my old home town of Chicago and watched a man take a few papers from a box after paying for one.

Sixty-five years ago, I sold papers from two stands in the Englewood District near 63rd and Halsted. Papers were 3 cents then. I would leave my papers on the stand and people would take one paper, leave the money and make their own change. I would collect the money between the two stands and was never short. I got my first tip from a lady who gave me a nickel and told me to keep the change. How times have changed.