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.
May 24, 1900: “The First National bank is making preparations to move to its new quarters in the Oliver hotel building on Memorial Day. Finishers are engaged in the new place and expect to have it ready for the bank by that time. When completed it will be one of the handsomest banking rooms in the west.”
May 25, 1912: “South Bend may become an important center for the marketing of fish. Fish from both Lake Michigan and Lake Erie can now be bought on the public market. Great quantities are being shipped into the city for sale, and dealers report the demand is steadily increasing. The fish are caught the day before and shipped immediately to South Bend. Some shipments come from Sandusky, O., and are on the way all night.”
May 26, 1927: “An Oliver plow especially designed to meet the menace of the European corn borer is on display in the lobby of the First National bank and Union Trust company, together with an exhibit showing the ravages of the pest. The exhibit was installed by the Oliver Chilled Plow works of this city.”
May 27, 1937: “Jeannette Harmon, aged 14, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. V. E. Harmon, 3221 East Mishawaka avenue, who ran away Tuesday to escape a music lesson, returned to her home Wednesday afternoon upon the advice of a Sturgis, Mich., landlady with whom she spent Tuesday night.
The girl left South Bend Tuesday afternoon on her bicycle and rode 50 miles to Sturgis from where she sent a telegram Tuesday night to her parents. The keeper of the lodging house where she spent Tuesday night convinced her that home with music lessons was better than no home without music lessons so the girl returned Wednesday afternoon, still riding her bicycle.”
May 28, 1947: “More than 14 inches of rain have fallen locally since April 1, the United States weather bureau at St. Joseph county airport reported today as farmers fretted over planting problems and street and county highway workers planned to cope with emergency conditions.”
May 29, 1952: “Bruce Parker, 97.5-average valedictorian of the 1952 class of John Adams High school and star center on the 1951-52 Adams basketball team, today was named the winner of the Kiwanis club’s grand award for proficiency in athletics, character, leadership and citizenship. The award, presented at a Kiwanis luncheon in the Hotel Lasalle, goes annually to the outstanding athlete-scholar-citizen of the city’s four public and two parochial schools.”
May 30, 1967: “Two young men from the South Bend area have been presented with plaques honoring them as the Most Valuable Staffers of their high school newspapers. The award, which is given to outstanding high school journalists throughout the country, is co-sponsored by The Tribune and the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. The award recipients were Toby McIntosh, 17, a senior at Central High School, and John C. Gardner, 18, a senior at Goshen High School.”
This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Headlines in History 1937: Girl Cycles 50 Miles to Flee Music Lesson
Reporting by Cheryl Morey, South Bend Tribune / South Bend Tribune
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