Headlines in History 1903: Needle embedded in right thigh goes undetected for three weeks
What was making news in our area during this week in years past? The History Museum offers these newspaper excerpts to give you an idea.
June 19, 1903: “Peter Schafer, living six miles south of this city and employed with William Webber on a Vandalia switch engine, has been complaining for several years of rheumatism and especially has he experienced severe pains in his right thigh the past three weeks. So severe were the pains that yesterday Mr. Webber asked to make an examination and upon pinching the flesh where Mr. Schafer said the pain was most severe, the point of a needle was exposed.” — The South Bend Tribune
June 20, 1911: “Wheat harvesting has begun on the Oliver farm in the southwestern part of the city. This is said to be earlier by fully a half month than usual and earlier, so far as discovered, than the oldest inhabitant can remember or than history relates. In some parts of the county wheat presents a good appearance and in others it is poor.” — The South Bend Tribune
June 21, 1927: “Members of the Pioneer Vacation club visited the Furnas Ice Cream company plant here Monday as part of the summer program of educational and recreational activities planned for the boys during the present period. Beyond the necessity of carrying one barefooted boy through the refrigerator room, which was one degree below zero, the trip was declared to have been highly successful.” — The South Bend Tribune
June 22, 1934: “Action is expected soon on the proposed semi-super highway between Goshen, Ind., and Mishawaka by the state highway commission with the announcement that Indiana will receive $5,088,963 of the $200,000,000 highway construction fund established through passage of the Hayden-Cartwright act and which was signed Monday by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.” — The South Bend Tribune
June 23, 1947: “The Kuntsman apartments, 412-414 West Washington avenue, built in 1901 and one of the oldest buildings of its kind in the city, has been purchased by the T. J. corporation of South Bend. The corporation, headed by Attorney Frederick K. Baer as president, paid $47,500 for the building, purchasing it from the estate of the late Mrs. Monda B. Hoyman, of South Bend.” — The South Bend Tribune
June 24, 1956: “Members of the St. Joseph County Bar Assn. are signing a petition addressed to St. Joseph Circuit Court Judge J. Elmer Peak asking him to order the installation of an elevator in the Courthouse." — The South Bend Tribune
June 25, 1966: “The 1966 Ball-Band safety poster contest ended with the presentation of prizes Friday in the plant cafeteria. V. J. Cork, Ball-Band safety superintendent was in charge of the contest. Five groups, divided according to age and grade in school, were judged and contestants whose parents, grandparents or guardians are employees of Ball-Band. The categories that could be used were home, traffic, play, school and public safety.” — The South Bend Tribune
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