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The Newsies lives were a stark representation of child labor during the Gilded Age, characterized by hardship, potential hunger, and exploitation, but also by resilience and community.
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This date is significant to the newsies because the group were a ubiquitous part of the urban landscape in America, and this day was the official opening of the Ellis Island Immigration Station, with the first immigrant
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a tragic collision occurred on Lake Huron, where the freighter Norman and the steamer Jack collided in thick fog, resulting in the loss of three sailors' lives. This is one of the story’s the newsboy had the day of the 23rd.
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During the 1898 Spanish-American War, newsboys in New York saw increased paper sales due to public interest by the "yellow journalism" of publishers like Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst
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sensationalized the sinking of the USS Maine with phrases like These headlines, published by papers like William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, and given to newsies to give out. -
headlines accompanied news of the formal declaration, with some papers also featuring a large, historic front-page illustration related to the event.
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The war has ended but the newspapers keep high prices on the newsies.
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thousands of newsboys in Manhattan gathered to form a union and organize a city-wide strike against publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst
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to protest a price increase from 50 cents to 60 cents per hundred papers from publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. -
the New York City newsboys held a massive rally, estimated to have drawn thousands of strikers, to support their ongoing strike against publishers
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The 1899 Newsboys' Strike ended in a compromise: publishers kept the wholesale price of papers at 60 cents per 100 but agreed to a new policy of buying back unsold newspapers.
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a major strike, holding meetings to organize and protesting against two newspaper publishers, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, who had increased the wholesale price of papers. The newsboys' actions, which included mass meetings, parades, and demonstration
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when newsies in Long Island City, Queens, caught the Evening Journal deliveryman selling them short bundles. They tipped over his wagon, chased him up the street, and triumphantly carried off armloads of papers, inspiring what nearly became a children’s general strike.
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fter the strike caused significant financial losses for the publishers, Pulitzer and Hearst agreed to negotiate. -
agreed to buy back all unsold newspapers from the newsboys. While the price of a 100-paper bundle remained at $0.60,
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