The Boston Herald and Its History: How, When, and Where It Was Founded; Its Early Struggles and Hard-Won Successes; The Prominent Events of Its Career (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Running a newspaper in Boston thirty years ago was a different matter altogether from journalism at the present day, as the extracts from the herald Of that time, quoted further on, will Show. The telegraph was in operation between this city and New York, it is true, but the tolls were high, and the dailies could not afford to use it to any great extent, except on the most important occasions. More oyer, people had not been educated up to the point Of expecting to see reports of events in all parts of the world printed on the same day Of their occurrence, or, at the latest, on the day following. Still there was a great rivalry between the Boston papers, especially in the matter Of publishing foreign intelligence. For several years before the extension of the telegraph overland to Nova Scotia, the news gatherers Of Boston and New York resorted to various devices in order to Obtain the earliest advices from Europe. From 1846 to 1850 the various revolutionary move ments in many Of the countries on that continent were Of a nature to be especially interesting to the people Of the United States, inasmuch as such struggles were regarded as indicating a sure progress among the effete despotisms towards republicanism. This stimulated enterprise, and Mr. D. H. Craig, afterwards known widely as agent Of the Associated Press, conceived the design of anticipating'the news of each steamer by a kind Of pigeon express.

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