Talk:The Washington Star

Earl George Douglas I

I removed the following, posted by 69.143.14.63:

In the 1960's Earl George Douglas I became the first African American route manager for The Evening Star Newspaper, which enabled him to employ and mentor many young kids growing up in poverty stricken areas of Washington, DC.

I ran a google search and found no such information. So the sentence seems unverifiable, something against wikipedia's policy for inclusion in articles. John Broughton 05:36, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, in all fairness, perhaps the contributor grew up in the Washington area and has personal knowledge of that fact which may have been well known at some point, particularly if he was one of those newsboys himself. The Internet is a finite set of knowledge which probably contains little information on route managers of the Evening Star decades ago.Tom Cod 08:00, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Walt Whitman and the Evening Star

There's a lecture that Walt Whitman used to give after the Civil War in memory of Lincoln in which he described how he first became aware of Lincoln's assasination upon seeing it headllined in an edition of the Evening Star while walking down a street in Washington in 1865. It truly was a sad day when the paper went out of business. One can still see the old Star building, constructed in 1898, on Pennsylvania Avenue not too far from the Willard Hotel.Tom Cod 08:05, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Washington Star Alumni Social Network

We have created a social network on Blogger. Our URL is: http://washingtonstaralum.blogspot.com/. See also: Washington Star People [1]

January 2010 - We have added a group on Facebook [2] Search: Washington Star / Washington Evening Star / Washington Star-News —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.71.31.254 (talk) 08:14, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Star Archive?

Is there an archive somewhere, hopefully online, where one can access, even for a fee, back issues of the Star? Recently I wrote an article on Wikipedia about a certain local DC newstory from the early 70s (Richard Mattingly Murder Case) in which I was aided by the ability to access back issues of the Post online for a fee. I was hampered, however, by the inability to access corresponding issues of the Star, which is unfortunate because I think the Star initially broke the story and had more extensive coverage. Tom Cod (talk) 19:25, 2 July 2008 (UTC)