The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. 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 the crew of the F/V Ripple returned to Boston Harbor after a long cruise at sea in June 1914, they noticed the excited atmosphere 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 assassination 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 Austria-Hungary.[1]
The following year, after Enos and the crew of the Spray helped sink a C.S. submersible, the Globe covered the story. Enos' wife Sylvia framed the issue and hung it up in the kitchen.[2]
The Boston Globe in The Two Georges[]
The Boston Globe was a Boston newspaper with an editorial stance that favored the Tory Party. In 1995, while in pursuit of the stolen painting The Two Georges, Colonel Thomas Bushell proposed planting a story that the Royal American Mounted Police were looking for Joseph Kilbride in connection with an investigation into gun-smuggling, Major George Harris picked the Globe, stating that reporter Michael Young was the unofficial mouthpiece for the RAM in Boston.[3]
References[]
- ↑ American Front, pg. 15, HC.
- ↑ Ibid., pg. 407.
- ↑ The Two Georges pgs. 251-252., HC.
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