Boston Journal is first published.

Originally the Evening Mercantile Journal, it is published by John Sherburn Sleeper initially from an office near today’s 276 Washington Street. The paper assumes its eventual name when it establishes a morning edition. A Republican paper, it becomes known for the battle field reporting of Charles Carleton Coffin during the Civil War. It is the first paper to post its headlines on a large blackboard in its street-level windows along what comes to be called Newspaper Row. The paper merges with the Boston Herald in October 1917.