What made the news in our region this week? The Historical Museum offers you these newspaper excerpts to give you an idea.
December 8, 1900: ‘The Epworth Hospital Fair and Christmas Market, which opened on Tuesday afternoon in the Auditorium Annex, closed last night and was followed today by a large dinner attended by businessmen and others.’ —The South Bend Tribune
December 9, 1911: “That all plans for the construction of a massive cold storage facility in South Bend are substantially completed and that contracts for a building valued at $300,000 are almost ready for lease by the Butzbach Fruit & Cold Storage company, was announced today. ” —The South Bend Tribune
December 10, 1922: “Many of the traffic dramas of both pedestrians and motorists could become a reality, according to prominent citizens who have studied the traffic situation here in recent years, if there were four arterial roads, four major east and west routes. be given preference over any intersecting highways with full boulevard status that the east-west routes receive.” —The South Bend Tribune
December 11, 1934: “Indiana’s 118th anniversary as a state of the union was celebrated today with ceremonies at elementary and middle schools across the city. For the most part, the programs were limited to individual classrooms, especially history lessons in the upper grades. The state sent a pamphlet to each school detailing the major historical events in Indiana since its admission to the state on December 11, 1816.” —The South Bend Tribune
December 12, 1947: “An automatic sprinkler system that operated shortly after a fire started in the filling room of the Singer Manufacturing company’s South Bend plant kept the fire under control until firefighters arrived around 8 p.m. Thursday.” —The South Bend Tribune
December 13, 1955: “The Board of Education on Monday afternoon denied a request from the St. Joseph County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to allow the recruitment of children through the schools under the 1956 fundraiser. In upholding its established policy regarding such requests, board members agreed that: (1) requests can embarrass children whose parents cannot afford to contribute, (2) many parents object to school requests from immature children who have a “shackled be public’. ,’ and (3) the board should grant requests from all charitable organizations if funds were to be sought.’ —The South Bend Tribune
December 14, 1962: “The South Bend Brass Ensemble made its debut Thursday evening at a South Bend Chamber Music Society program in the Public Library’s Schuyler Colfax Auditorium. The program also marked the American debut of the woodwind quintet composed in Hungary more than four decades ago by Carl Mathes, a former associate professor of piano at the University of Notre Dame. —The South Bend Tribune
This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: 1947: Blaze contained at Singer Manufacturing’s South Bend plant
