History
The newspaper was founded by a printer and a reporter in 1884 as ''The St. Louis Sunday Sayings''. As ''The Evening Star-Sayings'', the newspaper emerged as a competitor to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The newspaper became the ''St. Louis Star'' in 1896, and the ''Star-Chronicle'' in 1905. It returned to the ''St. Louis Star'' in 1908; the ''New St. Louis Star'' in 1913; and then back to the ''St. Louis Star'' in 1914. 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. Circulation of ''The Times'' exceeded 100,000 from 1916 to 1918. From 1918 circulation of ''The Star'' surpassed ''The Times''. On June 15, 1951, the newspaper printed its last edition following its sale to Pulitzer Publishing Co., publisher of the ''Post-Dispatch''. The newspaper had mounted steady losses, which publisher Elzey Roberts attributed to "ever-mounting labor and material costs."References
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