1906-1917.
Ryan and Company, proprietors.
The Sun is a newspaper gotten up by a newspaper man in a fine newspaper town. We sized up the man by reading his paper, and the town the first time we ever saw it. The Sun is a seven-column folio, issued weekly by Editor-Manager T.E. Ryan. It is five years old, nearly as old as the New Valley Park, and it will grow with the town.
(Originally published in the History of St. Louis County by William L. Thomas, 1911).