BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT

The 'Boston Evening Transcript' was a daily afternoon newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts published from July 1830 to April 1941. The WBET Radio Station takes its call letters from the ''Boston Evening Transcript'' as they shared a common owner.
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.
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."^[1]

''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.

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1. New England Historical Genealogical Society: Genealogical Thoughts by Gary Boyd Roberts