The Boston Globe

Boston Globe, the daily newspaper published in Boston one of the most influential newspaper in the United States.

The four-penny Boston Globe was launched on March 4, 1872, by six Boston businessmen, led by Eben Jordan, founder of the Jordan Marsh department store, who jointly pooled $150,000 in promising a ‘commercial and business journal of the first class’.

The Globe sold by subscription daily for 75 cents a month and three months could be had for two dollars.

By August of the following year, twenty-seven-year old Civil War veteran Charles H. Taylor became business manager. At the time, Boston Globe had 10 newspapers in publication. Under his leadership, it began publishing morning and evening editions, increased local and regional coverage and introduced big headlines, especially on sensational stories.

Taylor’s son William became the Globe’s publisher in 1921 after his father’s death. In the 20th century, the paper began providing more national and international news while maintaining generally liberal editorial stance.

The Globe received its first Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for its investigative reporting in the qualification of a federal district court judge.

The Taylor family owned and operated the Globe until 1993, when the New York Times Company acquired the paper for $1.1 billion.
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park in history

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the biggest park preserves in the eastern United States. By the mid 1800’s white settlers has established themselves in several areas of the Smoky Mountains, especially in fertile bottomlands like Roaring Fork Valley, Cades Cove and White Oak Flats.

In 1923 a Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association was established with Willis Davies as president.

President Calvin Coolidge signed the bill authorizing establishment of the park on May 22, 1926. The first superintendent, J. Ross Eakin officially began his duties on January 16, 1931. The park was the first of three National Park Service units to be established in the southern Appalachian during the Great Depression.

On January 23, 1928, John D. Rockefeller Jr. offered $5 million to the national park’s cause. To test the resolve of the campaign, Rockefeller’s gift required the equal matching of funds. In the end, efforts proved successful and as the memorial at Newfound Gap reads. ‘For the permanent enjoyment of the people, these park was given one half by the peoples and states of Carolina and Tennessee and by the United States of America and one half in memory of Laura Spelman Rockefeller by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial founded by her husband John D. Rockefeller.’

In 1934, Great Smoky Mountains National Park was finally established, preserving unique mountain landscape for future generation.

Most of the land that today makes the national park was owned by logging companies, and much of the landscape here was heavily logged during the first third of the 20th century. Even though the park was officially established in 1934, all logging had not yet cease. Little River Lumber Company sold its land with a provision that it be allowed to finish logging it. Its last trees were cut in the small valley of Spruce Falls Branch near Tremont in 1938.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park in history