Posts Tagged “newspapers”

Lowell Forgotten Finds: The Licensed Newsboy Badge

March 2, 2014 by Marie Posted in History, Lowell 1 Comment

As Curator Ryan Owen delves more into the Lowell Historical Society’s old and diverse collection, he will be reporting about the oddities and curiosities that abound. His most recent find has us remembering a Lowellian and former Mayor and Lowell City Councilor. This is a cross-post from the LHS blog…

Boston Globe First Edition a Four-Cent Bargain

March 4, 2011 by Marie Posted in Culture, History, Politics Leave a Comment

Mass Moments reminds us that on this day – March 4, 1872 – the first edition of the Boston Globe “hit the streets” as a newspaper intended by its owners to be “of the first class.” Funded by six wealthy Bostonians – it was intended as not just a business venture…