Miss Mry Graham Jones of the Social Settlement, Hartford, Conn. and few of the newsboys (all 10 years old and younger) that she invited to a Sunday afternoon party. In 2 days she secured the names of 39 newsboys and girls 10 and under. There are more in Hartford. Location: Hartford, Connecticut.

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.