mlarson: Newsboys Strike of 1899, via one of the cool people I work with. View high resolution

mlarson:

Newsboys Strike of 1899, via one of the cool people I work with.
(Reblogged from mlarson)
exclamationmark: Newsboy. 10:00 P.M. Solomon. Began selling at 7 years of age. Been selling 6 years (four years at night). 11:30 P.M. Is at it early Sunday A.M., Hartford, Conn. Hartford, Connecticut. (March, 1909 by Lewis Hine) View high resolution

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Newsboy. 10:00 P.M. Solomon. Began selling at 7 years of age. Been selling 6 years (four years at night). 11:30 P.M. Is at it early Sunday A.M., Hartford, Conn. Hartford, Connecticut. (March, 1909 by Lewis Hine)
tartanspartan: A Sleeping Newsboy — Lewis Hine, 1912

tartanspartan:

A Sleeping Newsboy — Lewis Hine, 1912
(Reblogged from tartanspartan)
inthemoodforlove: May 9, 1910. St. Louis, Mo. “Newsboy. Little Fattie. Less than 40 inches high, 6 years old. Been at it one year.” -Lewis Wickes Hine 1874-1940, American photographer who used the camera for social reform particularly in the area of child labour. [Portrait of George Okertich 1905-1958 - click photo for more on George. One of my favourite Hine photographs - brought to mind by Musicophilia’s earlier post] View high resolution

inthemoodforlove:

May 9, 1910. St. Louis, Mo.

“Newsboy. Little Fattie. Less than 40 inches high, 6 years old. Been at it one year.”

-Lewis Wickes Hine 1874-1940, American photographer who used the camera for social reform particularly in the area of child labour.

[Portrait of George Okertich 1905-1958 - click photo for more on George. One of my favourite Hine photographs - brought to mind by Musicophilia’s earlier post]

theblankco:

The Newsboys Strike of 1899 was a youth-led campaign to force change in the way that Joseph Pulitzer’s and William Randolph Hearst’s newspapers compensated their child labor force. The strike lasted two weeks, causing Pulitzer’s New York World to reduce its circulation from 360,000 to 125,000. The strike was successful in increasing the amount newsboys received by selling papers.

Even the guy who created the Pulitzer Prize had failures. But where would he be without those failures?

(Reblogged from theblankco)

My guinea pig

So my niece came to visit us yesterday, and what could I do but to offer her to join up in a game of newsies? :)

She’s 9 going to 10 and I wanted to see how she went through the process of creating a player character. She chose to be a newsgirl but interesting enough created a character quite unlike her. Instead of the “intellectual” student she is, she chose a range of skills that would make her character excell at athletics and, like she said “running away from trouble”.

I found she had some trouble understanding some of the Attribute names, so I could be changing them. Strength and Education was easy, but she had trouble with Perception. So, I’m not yet, sure, but perhaps Eyes & Ears.

Now, I know that Eyes and Ears is not the same than perception, but it’s close enough, traightfoward and easy to remember. Constitution, for the same reasons, could be changed to Health.

I thanked her for her help and she replied: “So I was a test subject?” :)

Newsies a Roleplaying Game

So here we go, this is the first post of Newsies, a roleplaying game of low fantasy and high adventure in the fictional city of New Paris in the good old USA. They would not only have to sell papers and dodge poverty; no the whole have to save the city and the world from nefarious plots, solve mysteries, rescue the inocent and even face monsters.

And no, no special powers, nor magic, nor great tech. That’s for wannabe heroes who aren’t up for a challenge. Are you?

I’m afraid you aren’t going to find much of the rules on this blog, because I have just drafted them and have written but one thousand words of the main rulebook.

So far this is what I’ve done:

  • Draft the rules in summary format.  
  • Draft the New Paris City Map
  • Sketched the game world.
  • Contacted one illustrator for the cover
  • Began the Character Creation Chapter
  • Searched for some reference material
  • …and set up this blog

I’ll keep you updated as I go.

Note:

This post originally appeared in the Newsies RPG design blog http://kindlelight.typepad.com/newsies_roleplaying/