billposter
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At one point he took a job as a billposter.
From Time Magazine Archive
In places where there is a regular billposter, he does that work for us.
From The Circus Boys on the Plains : or, the Young Advance Agents Ahead of the Show by Darlington, Edgar B. P.
Paste cans were loaded into the wagons, brushes and pails, together with the paper that had been carefully laid out and counted, the night before, for each billposter.
From The Circus Boys on the Plains : or, the Young Advance Agents Ahead of the Show by Darlington, Edgar B. P.
He had to consider his face in the light of an open warrant of caption, or billposter and placard, of the thoughts which were behind it.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
Any boards not owned by a billposter, or a barn or a pigpen or a henhouse on the road is called a 'daub.'
From The Circus Boys on the Plains : or, the Young Advance Agents Ahead of the Show by Darlington, Edgar B. P.
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