Truman
worked in the mailroom wrapping newspapers here for two weeks in August
1902. He made $7.00 the first week and $5.40 the second. He left to take
a job as timekeeper for a construction company working for the Santa Fe
Railroad. In later years, Truman sometimes differed with the Star.
"If the Star is at all mentioned in history," he wrote
in a letter to the Star which he never mailed, "it will be
because the President of the U.S. worked there for a few weeks in 1901."
(Letter to Ray Roberts, June 12, 1950.)
The Kansas
City Star Building where Truman worked was located at the northeast
corner of 11th Street and Grand Avenue.
Truman
worked in the mailroom wrapping newspapers here for two weeks in August
1902. He made $7.00 the first week and $5.40 the second. He left to take
a job as timekeeper for a construction company working for the Santa Fe
Railroad. In later years, Truman sometimes differed with the Star.
"If the Star is at all mentioned in history," he wrote
in a letter to the Star which he never mailed, "it will be
because the President of the U.S. worked there for a few weeks in 1901."
(Letter to Ray Roberts, June 12, 1950.)
