| 词条 | The Boston Post |
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| name = The Boston Post | image = | caption = The January 16, 1919 front page of The Boston Post | type = Daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | foundation = 1831[1] | ceased publication = 1956 | price = | owners = Post Publishing Company | publisher = | editor = | language = English | political = | circulation = | headquarters = 42 Congress Street Boston, Massachusetts; Corner Devonshire & Water Streets, Boston, Massachusetts; 15–17 Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts {{USA}} | oclc = | ISSN = | website = }} The Boston Post was a 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. 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 passed the publication to his son, Richard, upon his death in 1924. 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 255,000 and Sunday circulation approximately 260,000.[2] Former contributors
Sunday MagazineA weekly magazine was included in the Sunday paper. At first it was called The Sunday Magazine of The Boston Sunday Post and later The Boston Sunday Post Sunday Magazine. Pulitzer Prizes
Boston Post Cane traditionIn 1909, under the savvy 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 selectmen in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island towns. The Boston Post Canes were given to the Selectmen with the request that the canes be presented in a ceremony to the town's oldest living man. The custom was expanded to include a community's oldest women in 1930. More than 500 towns in New England still carry on the Boston Post Cane tradition with the original canes they were awarded in 1909.[10] UsageAccording to H. W. Fowler, the first recorded instance of the term O. K. was made in the Boston Morning Post of 1839.[11] See also{{Portal|Boston}}
Image galleryReferences1. ^{{Citation | title = The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, Vol. 19| page = 567.| publisher = Encyclopædia Britannica | location = New York, NY | year = 1911}} 2. ^(4 October 1956). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BSczAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5OsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6218,1216628&dq= Boston Post Ceases Publication For 3rd Time in Last Three Months], Miami News (Associated Press story) 3. ^{{Citation |last = Tommasini | first = Anthony| title = Edward Downes, 90, Opera Quizmaster | page = | publisher = The New York Times | location = New York, NY | date = December 28, 2001}} 4. ^https://rfkhumanrights.org/legacy/bio 5. ^https://www.justice.gov/ag/bio/kennedy-robert-francis 6. ^{{Citation |last = Special to The New York Times | title = Olga Huckins, Ex-Editor At Boston Transcript, 67| page = 27| publisher = New York Times | location = New York, NY | date = July 13, 1968 }} 7. ^{{Citation |last = Matthiessen| first = Peter | title =Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson | page = 135| publisher = Mariner Books | location = Boston, MA; New York, NY | year = 2007 | ISBN=0-618-87276-0 }} 8. ^{{Citation |last = Himaras | first = Eleni | title =Rachel's Legacy – Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 'Silent Spring’ was inspired by Duxbury woman | page = | publisher = The Patriot Ledger| location = Quincy, MA | date = May 26, 2007}} 9. ^Ponzi's Scheme, Mitchell Zukoff. 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://web.maynard.ma.us/bostonpostcane/|title=The Boston Post Cane Information Center - News and History of a New England Tradition|website=web.maynard.ma.us}} 11. ^H W Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Oxford 1965) p. 413 External links{{commons category}}
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