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Monitor trucks, circa 1911, ready to deliver “A Daily Newspaper for the Home”

Today, it’s on the cutting edge of digital publishing, with news available 24/7 through its website, as well as through daily news briefings, e-mail newsletters, e-reader and tablet editions, and a weekly print edition.

Inaugural edition of The Christian Science Monitor, whose motto is “To injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” Winner of seven Pulitzer prizes and more than a dozen Overseas Press Club awards, The Christian Science Monitor has undergone a number of changes to its format over the years. Today, it’s on the cutting edge of digital publishing, with news available 24/7 through its website, as well as through daily news briefings, e-mail newsletters, e-reader and tablet editions, and a weekly print edition.

Inaugural edition of The Christian Science Monitor, whose motto is “To injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” Winner of seven Pulitzer prizes and more than a dozen Overseas Press Club awards, The Christian Science Monitor has undergone a number of changes to its format over the years.

Archibald McLellan, first editor of The Christian Science Monitor. “All the news it is worth while reading” he told a Chicago audience in October of 1910, describing the Monitor’s goal—perhaps a wink and a nod at The New York Times, whose owner Adolph Ochs had created the slogan “All the News That’s Fit to Print” for the paper’s masthead a decade earlier.

Artist’s rendering of Mary Baker Eddy and some of her staff on the Monitor’s first publication day.

The letter that Mary Baker Eddy wrote to the Board of Trustees, requesting them to start a newspaper

Alexander Dodds, the Monitor’s first managing editor

Success! Spike sits atop Irving’s shoulder, nibbling on her reward.