How far back does the Herald go?
I’d say it is one of the top questions readers ask. Today I’ll help answer that one as best I can:
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I dug up the four-page edition of the Nov. 1, 1848, evening edition of the Boston Herald. That year is as far back as our archive goes. We don’t have every month from back then, but we sure do have Nov. 1.
It’s a fascinating read from this day back then. Here are some photos from this date in history.
Dr. Albert Einstein, left, and Carl Laemmle, film executive, speak as the famed German scientist visits Hollywood motion picture studios, in Los Angeles, Nov. 1, 1931. It was later announced that Einstein had refused a large salary offer from a motion picture company. (AP Photo)
Clustered about a bomb dedicated to the Ashland Grade School, Ashland County, Ill., are men of the 14th Air Force in China on Nov. 1, 1943, who delivered the dedicated bomb to the Japanese at the request of Major General Claire Chennault, their commanding officer, after the children of the school had written him a letter telling how they had raised money enough to purchase a $25.00 War Bond. The men are, (kneeling, left to right): Capt. Charles C. Haynes, New York City; Capt. Leland B. Farnell; 1st Lieut. Donald J. Kohsiek, Akron, Ohio; Standing, — left to right: T/Sgt. John J. Kelly, Daytona Beach, Fla.; Capt. James J. Grady, Morristown, N.J.; Pvt. Raymond P. Dillon, Chicago, III.; Col. Eugene H. Beebe, Moscow, Idaho; T/Sgt. Robt. A. Kunkel, Bridgeport, Conn.; T/Sgt. John B. Pauley Chelyau, W. Va.; S/Sgt. Aage V. Knudsen, Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/John Lent)
Songstress Judy Garland and band leader-pianist Count Basie discuss music on Nov. 1, 1963, Basie will play during his guest appearance on CBS-TV’s Judy Garland Show on November 10. Singer Mel Torme will also make a guest appearance on the program. (AP Photo)
A squad leader of the 3rd brigade, U.S. 1st air cavalry division calls for attack across rice paddy outside a hamlet near Tam Ky, South Vietnam on Nov. 1, 1967. Troops were landed by helicopter during operation Wallowa. Action took place some 350 miles northeast of Saigon. (AP Photo)
A new, foot-operated video game, played by model Linda Petersen, was introduced by the Bally Sente Co., at the Amusement and Music Operator’s Association’s 1985 Expo in Chicago, Ill., Nov. 1, 1985. The game, called “Stompin’,” is played on a 3-by-3 foot floor mat that corresponds to a picture on the video console. The operator tries to squash armadas of spiders, frogs and mice trying to get at some cheese. (AP Photo/Mark Elias)