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.
Nov. 23, 1909: “The Philadelphia Candy store, 116 North Michigan street, one of the heaviest contributors to The Tribune’s Christmas celebration a year ago, is the first big patron of this year’s celebration, arrangements for which are now under way. The Philadelphia notified The Tribune yesterday it will give 75 pounds of candy.”
Nov. 24, 1913: “The engagement of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for a concert in this city on Thanksgiving night at the High School auditorium is of more than ordinary importance. The organization is coming with its entire strength of 85 musicians under Conductor Dr. Ernst Kunwald. The program announced for the concert is probably the best ever offered to the music patrons of this community.”
Nov. 25, 1929: “One hundred seventy-five reservations have been received to date for the Chamber of Commerce special to the Notre Dame-Army game in New York Saturday, George Firmin, secretary of the chamber, said to-day. With only 200 tickets available and the demand for reservations increasing, it is believed that the limit will be reached long before the start of the trip Gothamward Thursday morning at 10:40 o’clock.”
Nov. 26, 1938: “The days of rugged individualism and resourceful initiative are not dead. Police Thursday morning received a call to investigate some one shooting geese in the pond at Leeper park. Speeding to the scene, the officers found a squawking lot of geese dodging lead pellets. Police seized the hunter, who told them he was almost 10 years old and was trying to bag a goose for Thanksgiving dinner.”
Nov. 27, 1949: “Southern California’s Trojans got a cold reception in Notre Dame stadium Saturday afternoon and so did the 57,214 fans. But the fans seemed better able to cope with the cold treatment than the Trojan team. The fans used varied ingenuity to beat the freezing temperatures.”
Nov. 28, 1959: “University of Notre Dame scientists have been awarded research grants totaling $121,273 by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, according to an announcement today by Francis X. Bradley, assistant dean for research in the Graduate School.”
Nov. 29, 1960: “Local stamp collectors are planning a special program Thursday in the South Bend YMCA Bldg. to welcome the Northern Indiana Philatelic Society back to South Bend. Organized in 1923, the local stamp club is one of the oldest in the Midwest. Meeting at members’ homes for the first few years the club moved to South Bend and after World War II, to Mishawaka.”
This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: HEADLINES IN HISTORY 1949: FANS ENDURE COLD BETTER THAN TROJANS
Reporting by Cheryl Morey, South Bend Tribune / South Bend Tribune
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