Headlines in History 1907: 'The Elopement of Ellen' opens South Bend Dramatic club
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.
May 22, 1907: “The South Bend Dramatic club is a reality. The presentation of the first play, ‘The Elopement of Ellen,’ a farce comedy in three acts, at the Auditorium last evening was a success in every sense of the word.” — The South Bend Tribune
May 23, 1916: “The Lincoln highway will pass under the New York Central and the Northern Indiana railway tracks this side of New Carlisle in a straight line as originally contemplated according to a decision of the Indiana public service commission just rendered.” — The South Bend Tribune
May 24, 1926: “Louis G. Palmer, leading Detroit realtor who has also developed Harter heights, Jefferson heights and Madison park in South Bend, believes that South Bend as an industrial city in the heart of an agricultural region, has as many natural advantages to-day tending to its development into a great city as Detroit had 25 years ago when its great future could not be foreseen.” — The South Bend Tribune
May 25, 1935: “Clay Roberts, 914 South Michigan street, Mishawaka, got a drenching in the St. Joseph river at 11 o’clock this morning when the outboard motorboat he was testing for the regatta Sunday tipped over southwest of the Mishawaka avenue bridge.” — The South Bend Tribune
May 26, 1943: “Graduation days at the United States naval reserve midshipmen’s school at Notre Dame are busy days for the Service Men’s center, 109 East Lasalle avenue, as well as for the graduating sailors.” — The South Bend Tribune
May 27, 1957: “Studebaker’s Champion Scotsman, the new economy car produced by the Studebaker-Packard Corp. with the hope of getting the company back on a sound financial basis, will make its debut in dealer showrooms across the nation Tuesday.” — The South Bend Tribune
May 28, 1962: “Romy Hammes will construct a drive-in restaurant on the Marycrest property in the 2000 block of Western Ave. for lease to Yumy, Inc., it was announced Saturday by Gerald A. Hammes, Marycrest development director. Work is scheduled to start this week. Thomas L. Hickey, Inc., is the contractual and engineering firm. The restaurant will be operated by Charles Tremel, fourth generation member of the Nabicht family, which claims to be the oldest family in the restaurant business in Indiana.” — The South Bend Tribune
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