![San Antonio newsboys need supervision. Here are three brothers - Sasser family, 729 Porter Street. The youngest one is five years old and makes 30 cents a day. Lawrence is seven years old but "he spends all he earns" his brother says. Boyce [?], makes 75 cents a day, and has a hard time keeping the others at work. Boyce is ten years old. They all start out at 6:00 A.M. and sell until 9:00 and 10:00 P.M. nearly every day except Sunday. I found them selling after ten P.M. Boyce said "We don't go to school; got to sell papers. Father is sick." Location: San Antonio, Texas.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvc2FuLWFudG9uaW8tbmV3c2JveXMtbmVlZC1zdXBlcnZpc2lvbi1oZXJlLWFyZS10aHJlZS1icm90aGVycy1zYXNzZXItZmFtaWx5LTEwMjQuanBn/320/224/jpg "San Antonio newsboys need supervision. Here are three brothers - Sasser family, 729 Porter Street. The youngest one is five years old and makes 30 cents a day. Lawrence is seven years old but \"he spends all he earns\" his brother says. Boyce [?], makes 75 cents a day, and has a hard time keeping the others at work. Boyce is ten years old. They all start out at 6:00 A.M. and sell until 9:00 and 10:00 P.M. nearly every day except Sunday. I found them selling after ten P.M. Boyce said \"We don't go to school; got to sell papers. Father is sick.\" Location: San Antonio, Texas.")
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![10 yr. old news-boy selling during school hours, but he said that he only goes to school in the afternoons. The half-day system makes it very hard to check up truants, but a good many of the news-boys freely admit that they skip school to sell extras. Salvatore Pulsatori, first St. and Wonders Court, badge No. 956, 9 A.M., 4/15/12. Goes to Jefferson School. Location: [Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTIvMDEvMDEvMTAteXItb2xkLW5ld3MtYm95LXNlbGxpbmctZHVyaW5nLXNjaG9vbC1ob3Vycy1idXQtaGUtc2FpZC10aGF0LWhlLW9ubHktZ29lcy02NDAuanBn/40/28/webp "10 yr. old news-boy selling during school hours, but he said that he only goes to school in the afternoons. The half-day system makes it very hard to check up truants, but a good many of the news-boys freely admit that they skip school to sell extras. Salvatore Pulsatori, first St. and Wonders Court, badge No. 956, 9 A.M., 4/15/12. Goes to Jefferson School. Location: [Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia].")
San Antonio newsboys need supervision. Here are three brothers - Sasser family, 729 Porter Street. The youngest one is five years old and makes 30 cents a day. Lawrence is seven years old but "he spends all he earns" his brother says. Boyce [?], makes 75 cents a day, and has a hard time keeping the others at work. Boyce is ten years old. They all start out at 6:00 A.M. and sell until 9:00 and 10:00 P.M. nearly every day except Sunday. I found them selling after ten P.M. Boyce said "We don't go to school; got to sell papers. Father is sick." Location: San Antonio, Texas.
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In the 19th and 20th centuries, newspaper publishers relied on newspaperboys (“newsies”) to distribute their newspapers on city streets. The newsboys purchased their papers and usually had to sell all of them to make a decent profit. In 1899, with a sudden rise in the cost of newspapers, a contingent of New York City newsies staged a strike against big-time publishers like Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.
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Date
01/01/1913
Contributors
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Location
San Antonio (Tex.), 29.42417, -98.49361
Source
Library of Congress
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