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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. The ''Post'' was founded in November 1831 by two prominent [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] businessmen, [[Charles Gordon Greene|Charles G. Greene]] and [[William Beals]].
In 1909, under the savvy ownership of [[Edwin A. Grozier]], the ''Boston Post'' engaged in its most famous [[publicity stunt]]. The paper had several hundred ornate, gold-tipped canes made and contacted the [[selectmen]] in New England's largest [[town]]s. The Boston Post Canes were given to the selectmen and presented in a ceremony to the town's oldest living [[man]]. 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]]. [http://wiscassetnewspaper.maine.com/2001-01-18/cane_recipient.html]
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. Throughout the 1940s, facing increasing competition from the [[William Randolph Hearst|Hearst]]-run papers in [[Boston]] and [[New York City|New York]] and from [[radio]] and [[television]] news, the paper began an inevitable decline from which it was never to recover.
==See also==
* ''[[Boston Herald]]''
* ''[[The Boston Globe]]''
[[Category:Publications established in 1831]]
[[Category:Newspapers published in Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Pulitzer Prize winning newspapers]]
[[Category:Media in Boston, Massachusetts]]