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.
Sept. 28, 1901: “A beautiful new building for Epworth hospital, which has been in course of construction at the northeast corner of Main and Navarre streets for a year, will be formally opened for public inspection on next Thursday and Friday from 1 o’clock until 9:30 each afternoon and evening. The hospital may be easily reached by street cars.”
Sept. 29, 1911: “The semi-centennial of the mustering of the 73rd Indiana regiment, a famous civil war command, which went to the front from South Bend, will be celebrated with appropriated ceremonies in the city Aug. 20, 1912. Arrangements for the event were made at the annual reunion, which has just closed at Valparaiso. South Bend was selected for the next meeting that the 50th anniversary may be celebrated here.”
Sept. 30, 1927: “Tentative plans for a six story building to replace the present two story brick structure of the Building & Loan Association of South Bend at 216-218 West Washington avenue, were announced to-day by F. M. Boone, treasurer of the organization.”
Oct. 1, 1936: “Officers will be elected today at a meeting of the newly organized Washington-Clay school Safe Bicycle Riders’ club at the school on the Darden road just off U.S. highway No. 31. At the same meeting the riders’ bicycles will be inspected to insure that they are safe for use.”
Oct. 2, 1945: “Sentence was withheld for about 10 days by Judge Luther M. Swygert in federal court here Monday after Alvin T. Drake, 28, Michigan City Jehovah’s Witness draft evader, was found guilty in seven minutes of refusing to obey orders of his draft board to report for transportation to a conscientious objectors’ civilian work camp last Jan. 16.”
Oct. 3, 1952: “Police and federal agents today charged Larry Trumblay, 22, of Chicago, with participating in the $52,000-plus robbery of the Western avenue branch of the National Bank & Trust company Sept. 19.”
Oct. 4, 1964: “Notre Dame bandsmen shocked Purdue at halftime Saturday. They paraded the new biggest drum in the world. Minutes earlier the confident Boilermakers had trundled out their drum, with the boastful legend “World’s Largest Drum” blazoned on the drumhead. This drum is as proud a possession of the Purdue Marching Band as the “Golden Girl” drum majorette. But Saturday was a day for display of Irish pride and power at Notre Dame Stadium as Ara Parseghian’s gridiron legions routed the Purdue footballers. Notre Dame Band Director Robert F. O’Brien sprang his big drum — so tall it cannot be trundled under the goal post but must make a detour around them — after the Purdue band completed its share of halftime entertainment.”
This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: 1952: Trumblay’s fingerprints match those on car used in local robbery