Boston Post

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caption = The January 16, 1919 front page
of "The Boston Post"
type = Daily newspaper
format = Broadsheet
foundation = 1831 [Citation | The Encyclopaedia Britannica | year = 1911 | title = "The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information" | Volume = 19| page = 567| publisher = "Encyclopaedia Britannica" | location = New York, NY | date = 1911]
ceased publication = 1956
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owners = Post Publishing Company
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language = English
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headquarters = 42 Congress Street Boston, Massachusetts; Corner Devonshire & Water Streets, Boston, Massachusetts;15-17 Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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website = 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.

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. Many towns in New England still carry on the "Boston Post" cane tradition with the original canes they were awarded in 1909. A fictional recipient of the cane, Aunt Evvie Chalmers of Castle Rock, Maine, makes several appearances in the works of Stephen King. [http://wiscassetnewspaper.maine.com/2001-01-18/cane_recipient.html]

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.

Pulitzer Prizes

*1921 - Meritorious Public Service

References

ee also

* "Boston Daily Advertiser"
* "The Boston Globe"
* "Boston Herald"
* "Boston Evening Transcript"