Friday, April 18, 2008

820,000 People in Detroit

1916

DETROIT, Michigan — Detroit has a population of 820,778, according to the city directory estimate. The directory makes Detroit as the fifth largest American city. New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and St. Louis are given higher ranking. Detroit was ninth in the population list of 1910.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Sept. 16, 1916, p. 5.

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