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. Excerpts are typed as they appeared in print.
April 26, 1909: “The entire Studebaker plant closed at noon to-day in memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Studebaker Witwer, whose funeral was held this afternoon from the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Kopcsay. Rev. G. D. Zollers, Elder H. W. Kreigbaum and Rev. M. Clyde Horst officiated. Burial was in the city cemetery.”
April 27, 1911: “Attempting to light a gas stove about noon yesterday, Mrs. Antonia Kreuger, of 418 West Navarre street, was blown across the kitchen and knocked down, but in some rather marvelous way escaped serious injury. She was frightfully shocked, but beyond this nervous shock and slight injury to her eyes, has suffered no further inconvenience and is gradually recovering.”
April 28, 1920: “A bill providing for a new post office building for South Bend will be introduced at the next session of congress, probably by Representative A. J. Hickey, of Laporte, representing the Thirteenth district.”
April 29, 1931: “Lord Millford Haven, son of the late Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg and a first cousin ofthe Prince of Wales, was a visitor to-day in South Bend where he inspected the Twin Branch plant and distributing centers of the Indiana & Michigan Electric company.”
April 30, 1942: “When the University of Notre Dame Glee club presents its civic music week concert in the university gymnasium Friday night three musical selections never before presented will highlight a program offering novel and lively entertainment aimed at the interests of young and old.”
May 1, 1957: “Ground clearing operation for a St. Joseph Hospital parking lot are progressing at the southwest corner of Madison St. and Notre Dame Ave., according to Sister M. Nazarita, C.S.C., hospital administrator. Purchase of the land was completed last week.”
May 2, 1967: “Pilot W. Harold Phillips, 40 of 16351 Fairfield Rd., Granger, escaped without a scratch when he brought this plane down into the middle of a woods east of Currant Rd. and north of McKinley Hwy. near Pokagon St. The craft nosed over when it hit the tops of the trees, but the fall was sufficiently broken by the springy boughs so that the cockpit was undamaged.”
This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Headlines in History 1911: Gas stove causes explosion
Reporting by Cheryl Morey, South Bend Tribune / South Bend Tribune
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