Truman worked in the mailroom for two weeks, making $7.00 the first week and $5.40 the second. In August 1902, future president Harry S. Nelson announced the arrival of the '24 Hour Star.'

In 1901 Nelson also bought the morning paper The Kansas City Times (and its morning Associated Press franchise). Nelson started the Weekly Kansas City Star in 1890 and the Sunday Kansas City Star in 1894. The paper name was changed to The Kansas City Star in 1885. He purchased the Kansas City Evening Mail (and its Associated Press evening franchise) in 1882. Nelson's business strategy called for cheap advance subscriptions and an intention to be 'absolutely independent in politics, aiming to deal by all men and all parties with impartiality and fearlessness.'. Twinkle, twinkle, little Star Bright and gossipy you are We can daily hear you speak For a paltry dime a week. Morss quit the newspaper business within a year and a half because of ill health.Īt the time there were three daily competitors – the Evening Mail The Kansas City Times and the Kansas City Journal.Ĭompetitor Times editor Eugene Field wrote this about the new newspaper: The two moved to Missouri after selling the newspaper that became the Fort Wayne News Sentinel (and earlier owned by Nelson's father) in Nelson's Indiana hometown, where Nelson was campaign manager in the unsuccessful presidential run of Samuel Tilden. The paper, originally called The Kansas City Evening Star, was founded September 18, 1880, by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel E. History Nelson family ownership (1880–1926) William Rockhill Nelson The paper is the major newspaper of the Kansas City metropolitan area and has widespread circulation in western Missouri and eastern Kansas. Truman and as the newspaper where a young Ernest Hemingway honed his writing style. The Star is most notable for its influence on the career of President Harry S.

Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes. The Kansas City Star is a newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri.

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