''The Seattle Star'' was a daily
newspaper
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that ran from February 25, 1899, to August 13, 1947. It was owned by
E. W. Scripps and in 1920 was transferred to Scripps McRae League of Newspapers (later Scripps-Canfield League), after a falling-out within the Scripps family. The company, which eventually became
Scripps League Newspapers, Inc., owned the paper until 1942, when it was sold to a group of local
Seattle
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businessmen including Howard Parrish, its publisher. Soon after the sale, it reverted to its previous
broadsheet
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format after having been a
tabloid for a short time. Of the three Seattle general circulation dailies (''
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Th ...
'' and ''
The Seattle Times
''The Seattle Times'' is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1891, ''The Seattle Times'' has the largest circulation of any newspaper in the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region. The Seattle Time ...
'' being the other two), it was the smallest in circulation, although it had been the largest paper in the city around 1900.
For most of its life the paper was known as the "working man's" or "working person's" paper. It was staunchly pro-labor, reflecting the values of E.W. Scripps. In 1919, it became vehemently
anti-Japanese, especially toward
Japanese-Americans
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who lived in its vicinity.
After
World War II
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, all of its assets minus the building and machinery were sold to ''The Seattle Times'' for $360,000 in 1947. Management said the sale was needed because of the rising labor costs and the newsprint shortage.
References
Sources
*
The Seattle Star 1899–1947'', Seattle Public Library. As of January 2023, online archive includes issues from shortly after the newspapers founding, through 1925.
*Casserly, Jack: ''Scripps the Divided Dynasty''. Donald I. Fine, Inc. 1993.
External links
About The Seattle star. (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947 Chronicling America,
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Defunct newspapers published in Washington (state)
Newspapers established in 1899
Publications disestablished in 1947