The Boston Post
The Boston Post was a daily
Edwin Grozier bought the paper in 1891. Within two decades, he had built it into easily the largest paper in Boston and New England. Grozier suffered a total physical breakdown in 1920, and turned over day-to-day control of the Post to his son, Richard. Upon Edwin's death in 1924, Richard inherited the paper. Under the younger Grozier, The Boston Post grew into one of the largest newspapers in the country. At its height in the 1930s, it had a circulation of well over a million readers. At the same time, Richard Grozier suffered an emotional breakdown from the death of his wife in childbirth from which he never recovered.
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 a decline from which it never recovered.
When it ceased publishing in October 1956, its daily circulation was 230,000.[3]
Former contributors
- Olin Downes, music critic.[4]
- Richard Frothingham, Jr., a Massachusetts historian, journalist, and politician who was a proprietor and managing editor of The Boston Post.
- Frederick E. Goodrich, journalist and political figure who worked for the Post for 54 years, including a five years as editor-in-chief.[5]
- Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator; correspondent for The Boston Post in 1948, 1951[6][7]
- Bernard G Richards
- Kenneth Roberts
- Olga Van Slyke Owens Huckins, literary editor, 1941–1954.[8] Huckins letter to Rachel Carson inspired the book Silent Spring.[9][10]
- Newton Newkirk was hired by the Post in 1901 and produced the Bingfield Bugleville comic strip that lent its name to Bing Crosby
"Sunday Magazine" supplement
From 1904 through 1916, "Sunday Magazine" was a regular syndicated supplement to Sunday editions of newspapers in various cities across the United States, including The Boston Post,
Pulitzer Prizes
- 1921 – Meritorious Public Service. The Boston Post was awarded the Pulitzer prize for its investigation and exposure of Charles Ponzi's financial fraud. Ponzi was first exposed by the investigative work directed by Richard Grozier, then acting publisher, and Edward Dunn, long time city editor, after complaints by Bostonians that the returns Ponzi offered were "too good to be true". It was the first time that a Boston paper had won a Pulitzer, and was the last Pulitzer for public service awarded to a Boston paper until the Globe won it in 2003.[13]
Boston Post Cane tradition
In 1909, under the ownership of Edwin Grozier, The Boston Post engaged in its most famous publicity stunt. The paper had 700 ornate, ebony-shafted, gold-capped canes made and contacted the
Usage
According to H. W. Fowler, the first recorded instance of the term O. K. was made in the Boston Morning Post of 1839.[15]
See also
- Boston Daily Advertiser
- Boston Evening Transcript
- The Boston Globe
- Boston Herald
- The Boston Journal
- The Boston Record
Image gallery
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"Sunday Magazine of the Boston Sunday Post" (September 18, 1910)
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The Boston Post Building, 15–17 Milk Street,Boston, Massachusetts
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"Boston Sunday Post Sunday Magazine" (July 5, 1914)
References
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 544–581, see page 567, para seven.
Among modern Boston papers the most important are....and Post (1831).
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 292–293, see page 293, last line.
Among the city's daily newspapers.....and the Post (1831) are the most important.
- ^ "Former Boston Post publisher died obscure and penniless". The Lewiston Daily Sun. Associated Press. January 24, 1985. p. 3.
- ^ Tommasini, Anthony (December 28, 2001), "Edward Downes, 90, Opera Quizmaster", The New York Times, New York, NY
- ^ "For 54 Years on The Boston Post". The Boston Globe. January 12, 1925.
- ^ "Robert F. Kennedy: A Brief Biography | RFK Human Rights".
- ^ "Attorney General: Robert Francis Kennedy". 23 October 2014.
- ^ Special to The New York Times (July 13, 1968), "Olga Huckins, Ex-Editor At Boston Transcript, 67", New York Times, New York, NY, p. 27
- ISBN 978-0-618-87276-3
- ^ Himaras, Eleni (May 26, 2007), Rachel's Legacy – Rachel Carson's groundbreaking 'Silent Spring' was inspired by Duxbury woman, Quincy, MA: The Patriot Ledger
- ^ a b To see 1912 covers of Sunday Magazine in various cities, refer to the gallery of images at Internet Archive (San Francisco, California). Further searches of other years from 1904 through 1916 at the same site provide many other cover examples of this supplement. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
- ^ The full contents of the August 20, 1905 and February 25, 1912 issues of the Sunday Magazine Of the Boston Sunday Post are also available for viewing at the Internet Archive. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
- ^ Ponzi's Scheme, Mitchell Zukoff.
- ^ "The Boston Post Cane Information Center - News and History of a New England Tradition". web.maynard.ma.us.
- ^ H W Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Oxford 1965) p. 413