The Boston Post

Former contributors

• Olin Downes, music critic.
• 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.
• Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator; correspondent for The Boston Post in 1948, 1951
• Bernard G Richards
• Kenneth Roberts
• Olga Van Slyke Owens Huckins, literary editor, 1941–1954. Huckins letter to Rachel Carson inspired the book Silent Spring.
• 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, Philadelphia Press, New-York Tribune, Chicago Tribune, St. Louis Republic, Detroit Free Press, and Minneapolis Journal. 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.

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.

''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 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.

Usage

According to H. W. Fowler, the first recorded instance of the term O. K. was made in the Boston Morning Post of 1839.

Image gallery

Image:Boston Post Sunday Magazine.jpg|"Sunday Magazine of the Boston Sunday Post" (September 18, 1910) Image:The Boston Post Building Milk Street.png|The Boston Post Building, 15–17 Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts Image:Sunday Boston Post Magazine July 1914.jpg|"Boston Sunday Post Sunday Magazine" (July 5, 1914)

References

References

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3. (January 24, 1985). "Former Boston Post publisher died obscure and penniless". [[The Lewiston Daily Sun]].
4. Tommasini, Anthony. (December 28, 2001). "Edward Downes, 90, Opera Quizmaster". The New York Times.
5. (January 12, 1925). "For 54 Years on The Boston Post". The Boston Globe.
6. "Robert F. Kennedy: A Brief Biography | RFK Human Rights".
7. (23 October 2014). "Attorney General: Robert Francis Kennedy".
8. Special to ''The New York Times''. (July 13, 1968). "Olga Huckins, Ex-Editor At Boston Transcript, 67". New York Times.
9. Matthiessen, Peter. (2007). "Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of [[Rachel Carson]]". Mariner Books.
10. Himaras, Eleni. (May 26, 2007). "Rachel's Legacy – Rachel Carson's groundbreaking 'Silent Spring' was inspired by Duxbury woman". The Patriot Ledger.
11. To see 1912 covers of [https://archive.org/search.php?query=Sunday+Magazine%2C+1912 ''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.
12. The full contents of the [https://archive.org/details/SundayMagazine19050820LOCAutolycus0152/mode/2up August 20, 1905] and [https://archive.org/details/Sunday_Magazine_Of_The_Boston_Post_1912-02-25_Darwination-McCoy/mode/2up 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.
13. Ponzi's Scheme, Mitchell Zukoff.
14. "The Boston Post Cane Information Center - News and History of a New England Tradition".
15. H W Fowler, ''A Dictionary of Modern English Usage'' (Oxford 1965) p. 413