The Boston Post was a dailynewspaper inNew England for over a hundred years before its final shutdown in 1956. ThePost was founded in November 1831 by two prominentBoston businessmen,Charles G. Greene and William Beals.[1][2]
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 thePost 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 theHearst-run papers in Boston andNew York and fromradio andtelevision 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]
From 1904 through 1916, "Sunday Magazine" was a regular syndicated supplement to Sunday editions of newspapers in various cities across the United States, includingThe Boston Post,The Philadelphia Press,New-York Tribune,Chicago Tribune,St. Louis Republic,Detroit Free Press, andMinneapolis Journal.[11] The supplement in Boston was initially titled "Sunday Magazine of the Boston Sunday Post"; later, as "Boston Sunday Post Sunday Magazine". The regular 20-page periodical has a magazine-like format that is essentially identical to the versions that accompanied other major newspapers in the early 1900s, featuring the same cover illustration, articles, short stories,serials, and advertisements.[11][12]
1921 –Meritorious Public Service.The Boston Post was awarded the Pulitzer prize for its investigation and exposure ofCharles 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 theGlobe won it in 2003.[13]
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 theselectmen in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island towns. TheBoston 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 theBoston Post Cane tradition with the original canes they were awarded in 1909.[14]
^Special toThe New York Times (July 13, 1968), "Olga Huckins, Ex-Editor At Boston Transcript, 67",New York Times, New York, NY, p. 27
^Matthiessen, Peter (2007),Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing ofRachel Carson, Boston, MA; New York, NY: Mariner Books, p. 135,ISBN978-0-618-87276-3
^Himaras, Eleni (May 26, 2007),Rachel's Legacy – Rachel Carson's groundbreaking 'Silent Spring' was inspired by Duxbury woman, Quincy, MA: The Patriot Ledger
^abTo see 1912 covers ofSunday Magazine in various cities, refer to the gallery of images atInternet 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 theAugust 20, 1905 andFebruary 25, 1912 issues of theSunday Magazine Of the Boston Sunday Post are also available for viewing at the Internet Archive. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
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