First time newspaper girl Carmela Ford, 10, got a lot of support over the summer from former newspaper girls, Ruth Johnson, her mother (back right) and Heidi Lee (back left) who were also ten when they had routes in Moline, Illinois, and Petersburg respectively.
On 10-year-old Carmela Ford's first day of work selling the local newspaper, she left the Pilot with 25 hot-off-the-press newspapers, walked across the street to Lee's clothing, entered the store with her bag of papers and the sight of her thrilled Heidi Lee.
Lee, who was a newspaper girl in 1969, said, "I loved seeing Carmella come into the store with her newspaper bag and her bright smile asking, 'want to buy a paper?' I remember the courage it took to do that when I was ten."
In fact, Carmela was nervous that first day, so she went and got her friend Julia for company. "And then we sold pap...
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