[4] In May 1905, Amon G. Carter accepted a job as an advertising space salesman for the new newspaper The Fort Worth Star.

She printed her first newspaper on February 1, 1906, with Carter as the advertising manager,[citation needed] and Louis J. Wortham as its first editor.

He cut a check for the additional funds and purchased his newspaper's main competition, the Fort Worth Telegram.

Amon Carter and Louis Wortham were pall bearers Paul Waples, who left a significant legacy which is notated on a Plaque dedicated to his memory at the Star Telegram building in Fort Worth.

Carter took the ball and From 1923 until after World War II, the Star-Telegram was distributed over one of the largest circulation areas of any newspaper in the South, serving not just Fort Worth, but also West Texas, New Mexico, and western Oklahoma.