N is for Newsagent! A newsagent sells papers from a stand, just like they do now; a News Room, accor
N is for Newsagent! A newsagent sells papers from a stand, just like they do now; a News Room, according to Household Words, was a little room you could read all the papers in for, obviously, a penny: How so much paper and print could be spread open in such a space was a marvel… every number of all these was supplied on the day of publication; and there was such an embarrassment of riches that one was nearly smothered in paper. The readers sat or stood or screwed themselves up as they might… A notable lady Newsagent: Anna Smith, who started a newsstand with her husband in 1795. He died shortly after and she built the business into a successful line of stationers and newstands, which is now, of course, W.H. Smith. -- source link