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March 1909. Hartford, Connecticut. Tony Casale (also called "Bologna"), eleven years old. Been selling four years. Sells until 10 P.M. sometimes. His paper boss told me the boy had shown him the marks on his arm where his father had bitten him for not selling more papers. The boy said, "Drunken men say bad words to us." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
The New York Journal was distributed in Connecticut?
[The New York Times and Wall Street Journal, too. Which were also distributed in New Jersey. - Dave]
But it does explain the confluence of economic populism and Prohibition within the Progressive movement.
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