18991776 Club
Newsboys overturn a Journal wagon in Long Island City; the strike spreads across New York
Thousands of boys walk off their corners, demanding Pulitzer and Hearst roll back the bundle price that outlasted the war it was raised to profit from.
A newsboy bought a hundred papers for fifty cents and sold them for a penny apiece, half a cent profit if every copy moved. Publishers had raised that bundle price during the Spanish-American War and quietly kept it there after the war ended. On July 18, 1899, newsboys in Long Island City overturned a New York Journal distribution wagon, and within days thousands walked off across the city. Two weeks later, Pulitzer's World and Hearst's Journal agreed to buy back every unsold paper…
