The Boston Record

{{Short description|American newspaper (1884–1961)}}

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| name = The Boston Evening Record

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| type = Daily newspaper

| format = Broadsheet

| foundation = September 3, 1884

| ceased publication = September 30, 1961

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| publisher = Advertiser Newspaper Company

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| language = English

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| headquarters = Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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The Boston Record was founded on September 3, 1884, by The Boston Daily Advertiser as an evening campaign newspaper. The Record was so popular that it was made a permanent publication.{{Citation | last = Stanwood | first = Edward | title = Boston Illustrated: Containing Full Descriptions of the City and Its Immediate Suburbs, Its Public Buildings and Institutions, Business Edifices, Parks and Avenues, Statues, Harbor and Islands, Etc., Etc. With Numerous Historical Allusions | page = 104| publisher = Houghton, Mifflin and Co, The Riverside Press | date = 1886| location = Boston, Ma, New York, N.Y., Cambridge, Ma}} It was the first tabloid-format newspaper in New England.

Begun as the Afternoon Record, it was bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1921 and known as the Daily Record by the 1930s.{{cite web|title= The Boston Herald – a company history|publisher=Boston Herald|date=January 28, 2012|accessdate=July 23, 2021|url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2012/01/28/the-boston-herald-a-company-history/}} It was merged with another Hearst newspaper, the Evening American, to form the Record American in 1961. In 1972, this was merged into the Boston Herald-Traveler, which later became the Boston Herald.