The Boston Record was founded on September 3, 1884, byTheBoston Daily Advertiser as an evening campaign newspaper.The Record was so popular that it was made a permanent publication.[1] It was the firsttabloid-format newspaper inNew England.
Begun as theAfternoon Record, it was bought byWilliam Randolph Hearst in 1921 and known as theDaily Record by the 1930s.[2] It was merged with anotherHearst newspaper, theEvening American, to form theRecord American in 1961. In 1972, this was merged into theBoston Herald-Traveler, which later became theBoston Herald.
^Stanwood, Edward (1886),Boston Illustrated: Containing Full Descriptions of the City and Its Immediate Suburbs, Its Public Buildings and Institutions, Business Edifices, Parks and Avenues, Statues, Harbor and Islands, Etc., Etc. With Numerous Historical Allusions, Boston, Ma, New York, N.Y., Cambridge, Ma: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, The Riverside Press, p. 104
Stanwood, Edward.:Boston Illustrated: Containing Full Descriptions of the City and Its Immediate Suburbs, Its Public Buildings and Institutions, Business Edifices, Parks and Avenues, Statues, Harbor and Islands, Etc., Etc. With Numerous Historical Allusions, Houghton, Mifflin and Co, The Riverside Press, (1886) p. 104.
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