What was making information in our spot throughout this 7 days in decades past? The History Museum provides these newspaper excerpts to give you an idea.
Feb. 19, 1903: “Four adult men ended up noticed past night to place a very long gas pipe towards the road motor vehicle trolley and then on the keep track of on South Michigan road near the southern terminus of the line. The consequence was to break the electric circuit and stop traffic for about 15 minutes. After inserting the pipe in placement two of the men ran in one particular route and two in one more. The adult males have been not mindful of the reality that several pairs of eyes not much off watched the whole proceedings.” — The South Bend Tribune
Feb. 20, 1917: “Twenty new Hudson cars left the town early this early morning certain for Joliet, Ill. The automobiles were staying taken to the dealer in that city and had been sent overland on account of incapability to procure freight automobiles at the Detroit manufacturing unit. The automobiles have been housed previous evening at the headquarters of the Remarkable Motor Income company on West Monroe avenue where by the Hudson is on sale.” — The South Bend Tribune
Feb. 21, 1926: “Although police found a quantity of intoxicating liquor, which includes 10 gallons of wine, 3 gallons of moonshine, two bottles of Canadian whisky, a few situations of Canadian beer and a 50 percent barrel of draught beer, in a raid about 8 o’clock previous evening, no arrests had been designed simply because the evidence was not observed on the residence specified in the lookup warrant.” — The South Bend Tribune
Feb. 22, 1935: “Henri Perrot, acknowledged as the father of four-wheel car brakes and an official in a French subsidiary of the Bendix Aviation company, is envisioned to get there in South Bend early following week.” — The South Bend Tribune
Feb. 23, 1948: “Baseball will return to Lippincott park for the initial time in two several years this summer time. The Ewing avenue institution will be the home of a workforce symbolizing Studebaker local No. 5, UAW-CIO, which Sunday was acknowledged as a member of the freshly-expanded Michigan-Indiana-Wisconsin league.” — The South Bend Tribune
Feb. 24, 1959: “The College of Notre Dame will acquire an 18th century painting, the present of Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab, at a ceremony here Friday. Dr. Wilfried Platzer, Austrian ambassador to the United States, will make the presentation to Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., university president, at 11 a.m. in Hesburgh’s workplace.” — The South Bend Tribune
Feb. 25, 1963: “Showing at the St. Joseph County Airport in the Barger Box & Printing Corp., display circumstance is a colourful folding carton and established-up box packaging application for H.&A. Selmer, Inc., of Elkhart. Selmer is a top company of musical instruments and components with production plants in this state and in Paris, France. Selmer a short while ago declared the buy of the Buescher Band Instrument Co., also of Elkhart.” — The South Bend Tribune
