Question

What does the following phrase mean? "He had gone about the world with a match box full of press-notices wihich he used to extract with a pin and read to casual aquantances" Thank You!

Answer 1

Bill Bramble had won a number of boxing matches. His name and stories about him had appeared many times in the newspapers. He used to cut those newspaper articles and keep them in a match box and take them with him wherever he went. He used to proudly take them out with a pin and show them to his acquaintances.