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They are not so common on trains nowadays , except in the West and South , but formerly they were even more of an institution than the water cooler or the old-fashioned winter stove . The station-shouting brakemen were no more familiar or comforting to weary passengers than the ` candy butchers ' and their welcome stock . '' _ Paul Pry _ ON WHEELS `` With all he had to do , young Edison found that he had time on his hands which he might yet put to good use . One would think being ` candy butcher ' and newsboy from 6 A.M. to 9 P.M. , and making from $ 10.00 to $ 12.00 a day might satisfy the boy 's cravings . But contentment was n't one of Al Edison 's numerous virtues . `` He did not know it , but he was following the footsteps of that other great American inventor , Benjamin Franklin , as a printer , editor , proprietor and publisher . In one of the stores where he stocked up with books , magazines and stationery for his train , there was an old printing press which the dealer , Mr. Roys , had taken for a debt .