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The Boston Journal

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Type
  
Daily newspaper

Founded
  
February 5, 1833

Format
  
Broadsheet

Language
  
English

The Boston Journal

Owner(s)
  
John Sherburne Sleeper, John A. Dix, Henry Rogers (1837); Col. W. W. Clapp (1886); John H. Higgins (1917)

Publisher
  
Journal Newspaper Company

The Boston Journal was a daily newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1833 until October 1917 when it was merged with the Boston Herald.

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, bought out its nearby neighbor The Boston Journal and created The Boston Herald and Boston Journal.

Former contributors

  • Charles Carleton Coffin, war correspondent who wrote dispatches from the front under the byline "Carlton".
  • Thomas Freeman Porter
  • Benjamin Perley Poore, Washington correspondent and war correspondent who wrote under the byline "Perley".
  • John Sherburne Sleeper, 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.

    • References

    The Boston Journal Wikipedia
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