Hawking papers to help children. Charity Newsies volunteers sold a special edition of The Dispatch across the Franklin County area yesterday to raise money to help clothe needy schoolchildren. The 104-year-old charity raised $473,952.56 in the street-corner sale. An auction and gala on Thursday raised an additional $407,503. The annual Newsies sale was inspired more than a century ago when three gentlemen inside a Downtown restaurant watched a child shivering in the cold trying to hawk his papers.
TY WRIGHT DISPATCH PHOTOS Charity Newsies volunteer George Gilchrest, a retired teacher, seeks donations at Livingston Avenue and James Road.