Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund of Detroit: 100 Years

by John Minnis, Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund, Lauren McGregor

Book Overview

It started with a cartoon--"Forgotten," by Tom May--in which a poor child, too young and innocent to understand why she had not received a Christmas present from Santa, weeps over an empty stocking. It ran on Christmas Day in 1908 in the Detroit Journal, where it caught the attention of key Detroit businessmen. Deeply moved, they entered into a solemn pact to do all within their power to prevent any Detroit child from being "forgotten." In 1914, under...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467112585
• ISBN13: 9781467112581
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.3"