March 15, 1931

Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser

Detroit, Michigan, United States

A column from the Interior Decoration Department home series describing the Robinwood house.

Writing letters to the Editors is a favorite occupation of readers of the Detroit News. During 1930 they wrote nearly half a million. Intimate letters revealing the innermost secrets of the soul and asking aid in the solution of problems as baffling as they are intangible letters of protest and letters of praise, letters about the growth of cabbages and letters about the dynastic of kings. Where else would they send such letters but to the home newspaper that for more than half a century has been Detroit's guide to affairs, intellectual, cultural and human? Any wonder then that when readers are in the market to buy they also turn to that guide for suggestions in merchandise and merchants? Perhaps that explains why The News has been first, second, or third in advertising in America during the last 17 years and why it is increasingly employed alone to carry the advertiser's message to Detroit.

Courtesy of The Detroit News Archives.