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Newsstands are shutting down—even Harvard Square’s famous Out of Town News is in jeopardy.

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2017

Newsstands were open selling papers and souvenirs, and by midmorning, some ice cream shops were starting to lift their gates.

From Washington Times • Aug. 18, 2017

Newsstands sell stacks of papers, most bearing the smiling visage of Suu Kyi.

From Time • Nov. 8, 2015

Newsstands are making space for photo-heavy commemorative issues with essays by the likes of former President Bill Clinton.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2013

Newsstands carried stacks of papers: the white-owned daily Chicago Tribune alongside the black newspaper—in the early years, Barnett’s Conservator; after 1903, Robert Abbott’s weekly Chicago Defender, the most widely read black paper in the world.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield