Boston Evening Transcript

Infobox Newspaper
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caption = The April 19, 1912 front page
of "The Boston Evening Transcript"
type = Daily newspaper
format = Broadsheet
foundation = 1830
ceased publication = April 30, 1941
price = 5¢ at time that it ceased publishing. [Citation | Special to "The New York Times | year = 1941 | title ="BOSTON TRANSCRIPT TO QUIT WEDNESDAY; Five-Cent Price Fails to Save Newspaper, Approaching Its 111th Anniversary PROFITABLE UNTIL 1929 Patron of Arts and Sciences Began Decline With Slump in 'Lush Financial Advertising' " | page = 23| publisher = "The New York Times" | location = New York, NY | date = 24 April 1941]
owners = The Boston Transcript Company
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language = English
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headquarters = 324 Washington Street (Corner of Milk Street and Washington Street), Boston, Massachusetts USA
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The Boston Evening Transcript was a daily afternoon newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts published from July 1830 to April 30th 1941. [Citation | Special to "The New York Times | year = 1941 | title = "BOSTON TRANSCRIPT TO QUIT WEDNESDAY; Five-Cent Price Fails to Save Newspaper, Approaching Its 111th Anniversary PROFITABLE UNTIL 1929 Patron of Arts and Sciences Began Decline With Slump in 'Lush Financial Advertising' " | page = 23| publisher = "The New York Times" | location = New York, NY | date = 24 April 1941] . A former Boston radio station, WBET (now WLLH in Lowell and Lawrence), took its call letters from the "Boston Evening Transcript" as they shared a common owner.

thumb|left|"The Boston Transcript" building before the Great Boston Fire of 1872

thumb|left|"The Boston Transcript" building rebuilt and enlarged after the Great Boston Fire of 1872

An early version of "America the Beautiful" by Katharine Lee Bates first appeared in the "Boston Evening Transcript" on November 19, 1904. Many other literary and poetic works debuted in its pages as well.

In 1847 the poet Epes Sargent became editor of the paper. The "Boston Evening Transcript"'s offices were destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872 but the paper continued to publish until the early 1940s [ [http://www.kellscraft.com/GreatFireOfBoston/GreatFireofBostonCh18.html] History of the Great Fire of Boston]

The paper is of value to historians and others. Gary Boyd Roberts of the New England Historic Genealogical Society notes:

"The "Boston Evening Transcript", like the "New York Times" today, was a newspaper of record. Its genealogical column, which usually ran twice or more a week for several decades in the early twentieth century, was often an exchange among the most devoted and scholarly genealogists of the day. Many materials not published elsewhere are published therein." [ [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/2_659_402.asp New England Historical Genealogical Society: Genealogical Thoughts by Gary Boyd Roberts] ]

Former Contributors

*Justin Brooks Atkinson, police reporter, assistant to the drama critic.
*William Stanley Braithwaite, literary editor.
*Edward Downes, music critic.
*Francis H. Jenks, drama critic
*Kenneth Macgowan, drama critic.
*Henry Taylor Parker, drama critic.
*Lucien Price, (1907-1914) assistant music and drama critic, editorial writer, and journalist.
*Epes Sargent, editor.

In Popular Literature

"The Boston Evening Transcript" is also the title of a poem by T. S. Eliot which reads: :The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript:Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn.:When evening quickens faintly in the street,:Wakening the appetites of life in some:And to others bringing the Boston Evening Transcript,:I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning:Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld,:If the street were time and he at the end of the street,:And I say, "Cousin Harriet, here is the Boston Evening Transcript."

References

ee also

* "The Boston Herald"
* "The Boston Globe"
* "The Boston Post"