 The January 16, 1919 front page of The Boston Post | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Post Publishing Company (former) |
| Founded | 1831 |
| Language | English |
| Ceased publication | 1956 |
| Headquarters | 42 Congress Street Boston, Massachusetts Corner Devonshire & Water Streets Boston, Massachusetts 15–17 Milk Street Boston, Massachusetts 259 Washington Street Boston, Massachusetts United States |
The Boston Post was a daily newspaper in New England for over a hundred years before its final shutdown in 1956. The Post was founded in November 1831 by two prominent Boston 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 the Post 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 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 230,000.[3]
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 544–581, see page 567, para seven.
Among modern Boston papers the most important are....and Post (1831).
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 292–293, see page 293, last line.
Among the city's daily newspapers.....and the Post (1831) are the most important.
- ^ "Former Boston Post publisher died obscure and penniless". The Lewiston Daily Sun. Associated Press. January 24, 1985. p. 3.