East Boston Advocate


The East Boston Advocate was a primary newspaper for events happening in East Boston. It was printed from 1870-1886 at which time it became the East Boston Argus Advocate which was printed from 1886 to 1941.

There have been many articles about Nehemiah Gibson and his family printed in the East Boston Advocate.

The Boston Public Library has the following issues on Microfilm in the Mircotext Department

East Boston Argus-Advocate was published weekly 

Aug 27, 1870- Dec 1889 (1870-1886 known as the East Boston Advocate)

Nov 28, 1891- Dec 15, 1894

Oct 7, 1916- Sep 29, 1917

Oct 1, 1921- Sep 22, 1923

Oct 6, 1928- Sep 13, 1930

Jan 5, 1939- Jan 23, 1941

References: 

Boston Public Library 

http://www.bpl.org/research/microtext/BostonNewspapers.pdf

http://www.bpl.org/research/microtext/MassNewsCE.pdf