What was making news in our area during this week in years past? The History Museum offers these South Bend Tribune newspaper excerpts to give you an idea.
July 20, 1900: “The swarms of grasshoppers that swooped down on the city last Monday are causing merchants no end of trouble. In clothing stores they are particularly bothersome. They seem to possess an appetite for fabrics of most any sort and in several places have damaged suits of clothes on display.”
July 21, 1916: “Prominent South Bend citizens have joined in a movement for the organization of a volunteer motor car corps for the purpose of keeping the war department advised where it will be possible to secure motor cars in South Bend with the least delay should an urgent need arise.”
July 22, 1921: “Elbel’s band, a musical organization known in South Bend almost continuously for the past half century has disbanded and will not be heard in the parks this summer. Many of the musicians who were connected with the organization are now regularly employed in the local theaters and cannot give their time to the band.”
July 23, 1939: “Preparations will be started Monday toward resumption of production work at the Singer Manufacturing company plant where a long strike was declared ended following removal of picket lines early Saturday morning. About 200 office workers, maintenance men and foremen will be first to return to their work.”
July 24, 1947: “Prince Saif Al-Islam Abdullah of Yemen, the ancient country of the famed Queen of Sheba on the southwestern corner of the Arabian peninsula along the Red sea, arrived in South Bend shortly before noon today to tour the Studebaker corporation automobile plant. The prince with his retinue of advisors are examining major United States industries with a view on modernizing their own country and also to renew pre-war trade with the United States.”
July 25, 1959: “St. Jospeh County sheriff’s deputies today theorized that children playing on the New York Central System track behind the Gish Lumber Co., Ardmore Tr. Friday noon left a rock on a rail which caused a section car to overturn injuring three persons.”
July 26, 1968: “Genetic control in the breeding of humans was discussed last night at the University of Notre Dame’s Memorial Library Auditorium by three faculty members representing the Biology, Theology and Law Departments. Dr. Robert D. Goodfellow, assistant professor of biology, discussed selecting and controlling thecombination of genes and chromosomes to produce a desired living body.”
This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Headlines in History 1947: MISSION FROM ANCIENT LAND FLIES TO CITY
Reporting by Cheryl Morey, South Bend Tribune / South Bend Tribune
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