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Editorial | From the archives: March 5, 1972

How the Globe began

By Louis M. Lyons

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  March 05, 1972

The Boston Globe launched its first edition 140 years ago, on Monday, March 4, 1872. This article, published for the Globe’s centennial in 1972, tells the story of how the newspaper began.

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