In his book "Life on the Settle-Carlisle Railway" (published by Dalesman in 1984), W.R. Mitchell records some of the stories he'd heard over many decades while chatting to railwaymen. Two of these stories (from different unidentified sources) are relevant to the Hellifield bookstall & news kiosk:
Page 45:
The was also a platform bookstall. ... A man who recalls starting in the service of Smith's at the age of 13 – at a wage of half-a-crown a week - says that in summer a second boy was employed. One boy delivered newspapers and magazines in the village; the other carried along the platform a basket full of periodicals, offering them for sale to passengers on the frequently-arriving trains.
Page 83:
The Settle-Carlisle ... provided a regular, reliable service, such as with the delivery of newspapers. "When I was a lad, I used to collect the 'papers at the station. Every morning. I met the nine o'clock train at Lazonby and carried so many 'papers into Lazonby and so many into Kirkoswald. I had half an hour off school so that I could carry 'papers as far as Stafford Hall, which was another mile and a half away. I did the same thing at night, meeting the 6-13 train from Carlisle, picking up the Cumberland News and taking copies round the two villages."