Front matter
Reading edition
For helpful suggestions the editor is beholden to the style books of the United States Government Printing Office, the Universities of Missouri, Iowa and Montana, the Indianapolis News, the Chicago Herald, and the New York Evening Post; to "Newspaper Writing and Editing," by Willard G. Bleyer; "Newspaper Editing," by Grant M. Hyde; "The Writing of News," by Charles G. Ross; and to the New York Tribune for permission to make applicable to Michigan its digest of the libel laws of New York.
The inscriptions on the building of The News, reprinted in this book in boxes, were written by Prof. Fred N. Scott, of the University of Michigan.
THE HOME OF THE DETROIT NEWS Fort Street, Second Avenue and Lafayette Boulevard
Founded by James Edmund Scripps August 23, 1873
Absorbed the subscription lists of the Detroit Daily Union July 27, 1876
Established a Sunday edition Nov. 30, 1884
Sunday News and Sunday Tribune combined as Sunday News-Tribune October 15, 1893
Daily Tribune merged with The News and discontinued February 1, 1915
Ground broken for present building November, 1915
Sunday News-Tribune became The Sunday News October 14, 1917
The News entered new building October 15, 1917
The Style Book OF The Detroit News Edited by A. L. WEEKS Published and Copyrighted 1918 by The Evening News Association Detroit
This edition consists of 1,000 copies, of which this is No. 625