PARAMOUNT’S GUTSY ‘NEWSIES’ SEIZE THE DAY!

At the turn of the century, headlines and newsboys sold newspapers. An estimated 10,000 children in New York City alone–mostly tough, street-wise ruffians just getting by–worked long days in neighborhoods and on street corners to hawk the “papes” for the Pulitzer and Hearst empires. And in 1899, when those monopolies decided to increase costs to offset slumping sales, the newsies organized.