Well, the ones who weren’t Newsies got rounded up, shipped on trains to the country (cause country air=good) and became at best child laborers there (teen boys were the most coveted for adoption) and at worse, horribly abused - since they didn’t exactly follow up on where the kids who were dumped in the countryside got sent or how they were treated. So, slave laborer, slave laborer, or horrible abuse were your great options as an orphan. Those plucky orphans!
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