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Title: The Style Book of The Detroit News

Author: The Detroit News

Editor: A. L. Weeks

Release Date: June 27, 2010 [EBook #32997]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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The Style Book of the Detroit News

_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._

[Illustration: 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 whi