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Who were the newsies? Selling newspapers was the most common job for city kids. Though most newsies had families and homes, children who went to school in the day and sold papers in the evening and on weekends, many newsies were "street waifs," orphans and runaways just trying to make a living. Newsies were primarily boys, but a few girls did hawk newspapers as well. The average age of a newsie was from eight to fifteen.
Where did they live? Most newsies lived at home with their families, but there were lodging houses available for newsies to stay. Rent would be collected weekly. Those who either did not want to stay in a lodging house, or could not, would sleep in the streets wherever they could. Some would sneak into performance halls or other places that were open all night to sleep, but the owners, if they caught them, would shoo them out. One wasn't supposed to sleep there.
What and where did they sell? Newsboys and newsgirls, of course, sold newspapers. They would buy, in wholesale, the papers that they wanted to sell for the day. These papers would be sold for one cent. Newsies had to be very careful about how many papers they bought, because unsold papers were not refunded. They took into consideration the headlines, the weather, time of day, day of the week, sports scores, and season of the year.
Newsies bought their papers at the wholesale price of fifty cents per hundred until 1899, when the New York World and New York Journal raised the price to sixty cents per hundred. The newsboys went on strike, but it wasn't entirely successful. The price remained at sixty cents per hundred, but it was agreed that all unsold papers would be refunded.
Most newsies sold on street corners, in a regular spot every day. Some newsies, newsgirls in particular, saved to have a newsstand, where she would sell her papers.Older newsboys were generally rough with the younger ones, and had their own street corners in which to sell their papers. Getting a busy street corner meant that you were one of the best newsies in the business.
How did they sell? In entering the newspaper-selling business, the young boys and girls came to be shrewd and intelligent businessmen (and women). Since unsold papers, originally, were not refunded, newsies had to do whatever they could to sell. If a headline was boring and uninteresting, the newsies had to come up with headlines worth shouting. Any mention of the White House in the paper would automatically become a scandal. (But sometimes this became a problem: sometimes newsies would exaggerate too much and would talk of war and destruction, and it frightened customers). The more war, mayhem, murder, and destruction, the more papers were sold and the happier the newsies were.
Newsies had extensive knowledge of the city they lived in, particularly their own territory. They knew all of the best places to sell, one of those places being bars—drunks tipped generously.
They also preyed on a customer's sympathy. Newsies would often pretend to be sick, injured, poor, or hungry in order to get a tip, or to sell more papers in general. Some warm-hearted people would even by the whole lot of newspapers out of sympathy for the newsboy.