Headlines in History 1924: Medical lecture - electronic reaction method demonstrated free

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.

Jan. 28, 1902: “The board of education yesterday afternoon decided to build the new High school building on the present site and to purchase additional property on Colfax avenue so as to make it possible to erect a manual training school in connection with the institution.” — The South Bend Tribune

Jan. 29, 1918: “With the decision Monday by the county commissioners that the Northern Indiana Historical society should be allowed to retain possession of the second floor of the old courthouse, the project of establishing a work house was practically abandoned. At a recent session the commissioners voted to ask the county council for an appropriation of $4,000 to establish a work house. It was decided Monday, however, that the historical society was a county institution and that its collection of relics should be perpetuated, while the proposed workhouse was only an experiment.” — The South Bend Tribune

Jan. 30, 1924: “The electronic method of diagnosing and treating the human body will be demonstrated at the Oliver hotel to-morrow afternoon, and a lecture on the subject will be given at 8:15 o’clock in the Rotary room by Alexander Marky, editor of Pearson’s magazine, which has been giving the method practiced by the late Dr. Albert Abrams, of San Francisco, wide publicity.” — The South Bend Tribune

Jan. 31, 1937: “Venus, the exceptionally brilliant star of the evening sky, will swing farthest east in its elliptical path around the sun and start turning back in a loop next Friday. The bright planet which blazes with sufficient brilliancy to attract even the casual observer due to its proximity to the earth and high reflective surface created by its thick layer of clouds, now is 45 degrees above the western horizon at sundown.” — The South Bend Tribune

Feb. 1, 1944: “Still unknown to police today is the identity of a boy who Saturday found a $2,600 diamond ring and $135 cash in the Walgreen company store, 201 North Michigan street, and turned it over to the management for safe keeping for the owner.” — The South Bend Tribune

Feb. 2, 1955: “More than 500 local Boy Scouts will take part in the pre-evacuation survey of a large southern portion of South Bend Feb. 12. St. Joseph County Civil Defense officials and scout executives briefed the adult leaders who will supervise the survey at a meeting Tuesday night in the South Bend Gospel Tabernacle, 2315 S. Michigan St. Maps and questionnaires to be used in the operation were distributed and final instructions were given to the scout leaders. CD leaders said the survey is a necessary prelude to any evacuation test staged later.” — The South Bend Tribune

Feb. 3, 1963: “A bill that would appropriate enough money to add a third year to the program at the South Bend-Mishawaka campus of Indiana University will be introduced in the Indiana House of Representatives. State Rep. Leonard Opperman, D-South Bend, said the total cost of adding the junior year to the center’s program has been estimated at $1,365,000.” — The South Bend Tribune

This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: 1924: Electronic Reaction method will be demonstrated free