The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston. It was founded in 1872 by six Boston businessmen, led by Eben Jordan, who jointly invested $150,000. The first issue was published on March 4, 1872 and cost four cents. The Globe remains a major American newspaper up the present, and has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993.

The Boston Globe in Southern Victory
When George Enos and his fellow fishermen returned to Boston Harbor after a long cruise at sea, they noticed the exited atmoshere in the city. Enos bought a copy of The Boston Globe with a couple of pennies which he found in his coveralls. From the paper he learned of the assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, and of President Theodore Roosevelt's determination to take the United States into the imminent war, at the side of Germany and Austro-Hungary.