St. Louis Star-Times

The St. Louis Star-Times was a newspaper published in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded as The St. Louis Sunday Sayings in 1884, it operated independently until 1951, when it was purchased by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

St. Louis Star-Times

Founded	1884 (1884)
Ceased publication	June 15, 1951 (1951-06-15)
Headquarters	St. Louis

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.^[1] In 1918, The Star's circulation eclipsed that of local rival The Times,^[2] which had exceeded 100,000 from 1916 to 1918.^[3]

In June 1932, The Star purchased The American Press, publisher of The Times, to create The St. Louis Star and Times.^[3] 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",^[4] 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.