History
The newspaper was founded by a printer and a reporter in 1884 as ''The St. Louis Sunday Sayings''. Renamed ''The Evening Star-Sayings'', it emerged as a competitor to the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch,'' which had been founded by the merger of two newspapers in 1878. The newspaper became the ''St. Louis Star'' in 1896, and the ''Star-Chronicle'' in 1905. It returned to the name ''St. Louis Star'' in 1908; the ''New St. Louis Star'' in 1913; and then back to the ''St. Louis Star'' in 1914. In 1918, ''The Star's'' circulation eclipsed that of local rival ''The Times'', which had exceeded 100,000 from 1916 to 1918. In June 1932, ''The Star'' purchased The American Press, publisher of ''The Times'', to create ''The St. Louis Star and Times''. ''The Times'' was Republican, while ''The Star'' considered itself nonpartisan. After several money-losing years that publisher Elzey Roberts attributed to "ever-mounting labor and material costs", the ''Star'' was sold in 1951 to Pulitzer Publishing Co., publisher of the ''Post-Dispatch.'' The ''Star'' published its final edition on June 15, 1951.References
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