Headlines in History 1927: STORE REPORTS THEFT OF ANOTHER FUR COAT
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.
Dec. 14, 1909:"While making a hasty invoice of the extent of their Sunday night robbery, Max Adler, of the Peterson & Adler Quality shop, Washington avenue, yesterday afternoon found a small gold watch and chain valued at perhaps $50. The watch was in the inside pocket of an overcoat, hanging close to where the stolen ones had hung it."
Dec. 15, 1913:"Ellsworth's Store Closes Christmas Eve at Six O'clock. We are all just folks here at this store and we like Christmas. In order to better observe this, the year's most sacred holiday, we close our store at 6 o'clock Christmas Eve."
Dec. 16, 1927:"Robbers and holdup men continued their activities in South Bend in the last 24 hours and to-day police were striving to solve the mystery of the disappearance of a $495 fur coat and to apprehend the bandits who made away with $175 taken from three victims."
Dec. 17, 1939:"A nationwide movement to make Christmas eve in the United States a "night of light" as America's answer to the blackout that has engulfed Europe, Saturday received the support of South Bend's mayor, Jesse I. Pavey, and Mayor Carl J. Castleman, Mishawaka. The movement was launched by Publisher Bernarr MacFadden, New York city, who advocates that "every building where Americans live or work—every cottage, every factory, every office, every store, every school, every church—be ablaze with light" as the American answer to war-ridden Europe where light has become a symbol of threatening death instead of life."
Dec. 18, 1946:"Three teen-age South Bend boys captured in Mishawaka early this morning driving a stolen car loaded with guns and ammunition have admitted to Mishawaka police a three-state crime wave that included robberies, car theft and burglaries."
Dec. 19, 1955:"The year's shortest days began today and will continue through Friday, with the sun giving the minimum light at its lowest southern declination. The five shortest days of the year in South Bend total only nine hours and seven minutes."
Dec. 20, 1968:"The Army today announced award of a $7,332,237 contract to Kaiser Jeep Corp. for additionalproduction of five-ton military trucks in South Bend."
This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: 1927: Bandits have been busy in South Bend
