Boston Post

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The January 16, 1919 front page of The Boston Post
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Post Publishing Company
Founded	1831[1]
Language	English
Ceased publication	1956
Headquarters	42 Congress Street Boston, Massachusetts; Corner Devonshire & Water Streets, Boston, Massachusetts; 15-17 Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts  United States

The Boston Post was the most popular daily newspaper in New England for over a hundred years before it folded in 1956. The Post was founded in November 1831 by two prominent Boston businessmen, Charles G. Greene and William Beals.

By the 1930s, The Boston Post had grown to be one of the largest newspapers in the country, with a circulation of well over a million readers.

Throughout the 1940s, facing increasing competition from the Hearst-run papers in Boston and New York and from radio and television news, the paper began an inevitable decline from which it was never to recover.

Contents 1 Former Contributers 2 The Boston Sunday Post 3 Sunday Magazine 4 Pulitzer Prizes 5 Boston Post Cane Tradition 6 References 7 See also

[edit] Former Contributers

• Olin Downes, music critic.^[2]
• Olga Van Slyke Owens Huckins, literary editor, 1941 to 1954. ^[3] Huckins letter to Rachel Carson inspired the book Silent Spring.^{[4] [5]}

[edit] The Boston Sunday Post

[edit] Sunday Magazine

Appearing in the Sunday paper every week was a weekly magazine. It was called first The Sunday Magazine of the The Boston Sunday Post and later The Boston Sunday Post Sunday Magazine.

[edit] Pulitzer Prizes

1921 - Meritorious Public Service

[edit] Boston Post Cane Tradition

In 1909, under the savvy ownership of Edwin A. Grozier, the Boston Post engaged in its most famous publicity stunt. The paper had several hundred ornate, gold-tipped canes made and contacted the selectmen in New England's largest towns. The Boston Post Canes were given to the selectmen and presented in a ceremony to the town's oldest living man. ^[6] The custom was expanded to include a community's oldest women in 1930. Many towns in New England still carry on the Boston Post cane tradition with the original canes they were awarded in 1909. ^[7]

[edit] References

1. ^ "The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information", New York, NY: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911, p. 567 
2. ^ Tommasini, Anthony (December 28, 2001), Edward Downes, 90, Opera Quizmaster, New York, NY: The New York Times 
3. ^ Special to The New York Times (Jul 13, 1968), Olga Huckins, Ex-Editor At Boston Transcript, 67, New York, NY: New York Times, p. 27 
4. ^ Matthiessen, Peter (2007), Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson, Boston, MA; New York, NY: Mariner Books, p. 135  ISBN 0618872760.
5. ^ Himaras, Eleni (May 26, 2007), RACHEL'S LEGACY - Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 'Silent Spring’ was inspired by Duxbury woman, Quincy, MA: The Patriot Ledger. 
6. ^ http://web.maynard.ma.us/history/bpcane.htm "The Boston Post Cane"
7. ^ http://wiscassetnewspaper.maine.com/2001-01-18/cane_recipient.html "Woolwich's Oldest Citizen Presented Boston Post Cane"

[edit] See also

• The Boston Daily Advertiser
• The Boston Globe
• Boston Herald
• The Boston Journal
• Boston Evening Transcript