The Boston Journal
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Newspaper
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published in Boston, Massachusetts from 1833 until October 1917 when it was merged with the Boston Herald
Boston Herald
The Boston Herald is a daily newspaper that serves Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and its surrounding area. It was started in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States...
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The paper was originally an evening paper called the Evening Mercantile Journal. When it started publishing its morning edition, it changed its name to The Boston Journal.
In October 1917 John H. Higgins, the publisher and treasurer of the Boston Herald
Boston Herald
The Boston Herald is a daily newspaper that serves Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and its surrounding area. It was started in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States...
, bought out its nearby neighbor The Boston Journal and created The Boston Herald and Boston Journal
Former contributors
- Benjamin Perley PooreBenjamin Perley PooreBenjamin Perley Poore was a prominent American newspaper correspondent, editor, and author in the mid-19th century...
. Washington correspondent and war correspondent who wrote under the byline "Perley". - Charles Carleton CoffinCharles Carleton CoffinCharles Carleton Coffin was an American journalist, Civil War correspondent, author and politician.Charles Carleton Coffin was one of the best-known newspaper correspondents of the American Civil War. He has been called "the Ernie Pyle of his era," and a biographer, W.E...
. War correspondent who wrote dispatches from the front under the byline "Carlton". - John Sherburne SleeperJohn Sherburne SleeperJohn Sherburne Sleeper was an American sailor, ship master, novelist , journalist and politician.-Life at Sea:...
. Principal editor and part owner of the newspaper. Sleeper wrote the Journal's "Tales of the Seas" under his nom de plume of Hawser Martingale.
See also
- Boston Daily AdvertiserBoston Daily AdvertiserThe Boston Daily Advertiser was the first daily newspaper in Boston, and for many years the only daily paper in Boston.-History:...
- Boston Evening TranscriptBoston Evening TranscriptThe Boston Evening Transcript was a daily afternoon newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts, published from July 24, 1830, to April 30, 1941.-Beginnings:...
- The Boston GlobeThe Boston GlobeThe Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...
- Boston HeraldBoston HeraldThe Boston Herald is a daily newspaper that serves Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and its surrounding area. It was started in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States...
- Boston PostBoston PostThe 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...