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The Boston Post was the most popular daily newspaper in New England for over a hundred years before it folded in 1956. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. History See also History of New England New England's earliest inhabitants were Algonquian -speaking Native Americans including the Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Post was founded in November 1831 by two prominent Boston businessmen, Charles G. Greene and William Beals. Year 1831 ( MDCCCXXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Charles Gordon Greene (1804-1886 was an American Journalist, born at Boscawen, New Hampshire, the brother of Nathaniel Greene, whom

In 1909, under the savvy ownership of Edwin A. Grozier, the Boston Post engaged in its most famous publicity stunt. Year 1909 ( MCMIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Edwin Atkins Grozier ( September 12, 1859 - 1924 was a progressive journalist who owned the Boston Post from 1891 until his death A publicity stunt is an event designed to attract the public 's attention to the promoters or their causes The paper had several hundred ornate, gold-tipped canes made and contacted the selectmen in New England's largest towns. The Board of Selectmen is commonly the executive arm of Town Governments in the New England region of the United States. A town is a type of settlement ranging from a few to several thousand (occasionally hundreds of thousands inhabitants although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan The Boston Post Canes were given to the selectmen and presented in a ceremony to the town's oldest living man. A man is a Male Human. The term man (irregular plural Many towns in New England still carry on the Boston Post cane tradition with the original canes they were awarded in 1909. A fictional recipient of the cane, Aunt Evvie Chalmers of Castle Rock, Maine, makes several appearances in the works of Stephen King. Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. Castle Rock Maine is part of Stephen King ’s fictional Maine topography and as such serves as the setting for a number of his novels novellas and short stories Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American Author, Screenwriter, Musician, Columnist, [1]

By the 1930s, the Boston Post had grown to be one of the largest newspapers in the country, with a circulation of well over a million readers. The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression. 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 an inevitable decline from which it was never to recover. The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949 Events and trends The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s which also leads the period to be For other people named William Randolph Hearst see William Randolph Hearst (disambiguation William Randolph Hearst I (April 29 1863 &ndash The City of New York Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic