Seattle Star

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The Seattle Star was a daily newspaper that ran from February 2, 1899, to August 13, 1947. It was owned by E.W. Scripps from 1909 to 1942. In 1942 in was sold to a group of local Seattle businessmen including Howard Parrish, its publisher. Soon after the sale, it reverted back to its previous broadsheet format after becoming a tabloid for a short time. Of the three Seattle general circulation dailies, (Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Seattle Times being the other two), it was the smallest in circulation. A significant change from the time after the turn of the century when it was the largest paper in the city.

For most of its life the paper was known as the 'working man's' or 'working person's paper'. It was staunchly pro-labor. During WWII it became vehemently anti-Japanese especially toward those Japanese-Americans who lived in its vicinity.

After WWII, 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.